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Threat of genocide looms in Pakistan By Geoffrey Johnston, kingston Whig-Standard Thursday, March 21, 2013 2:42:50 EDT PM While Pakistan’s archaic blasphemy laws seem to enjoy support among the Sunni Muslim-majority population, the South Asian nation’s religious minorities live in...

US drone strike leaves four dead in North Waziristan Zahir Shah Sherazi | 3 hours ago PESHAWAR: Four people were killed early on Friday by a suspected US drone strike in North Waziristan tribal region, intelligence sources claimed. The sources said that the US drone fired two missiles on a...

COMMENT : Terrorism: is media a watchdog or lapdog? — Dr Mohammad Taqi The ostensibly liberal publication gave space quite liberally to Ludhianvi to bash the Shia without a single challenging question being asked Pakistan finally saw democratically elected national and provincial...

Talks with Taliban always proved disastrous: Farhat Taj Friday, 15 March 2013 19:44by Adnan Farooq Any durable solution to Taliban terror requires that Pakistan gives up the use of religion in state affairs. Also, it should give up Islamist proxies as foreign policy tools in Afghanistan and...

Pakistan: Myths and consequences. by Omar Ali — March 15, 2013 5:12 pm The Islamic and irrationally anti-Indian elements in the self-image of the Pakistani state have led it down a self-destructive path. Salman Rushdie famously said that Pakistan was “insufficiently imagined”. To say...

For Ikram – Life in Pakistan occupied Kashmir – Azad Kashmir By markulyseas From The Friday Times, Pakistan’s First Independent Weekly Newspaper - The “Azad” in AJK smacks of oxymoronic rhetoric. Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) is neither a free territory, nor a province of Pakistan...

A must watch video especially for Afghans. Amrullah Saleh just tears PureLandists apart in this. @Sher Malang, your comments on the same required.

Gas, but not the useful sort Barren ground for a new pipeline Mar 16th 2013 | ISLAMABAD |From the print edition IT WAS smiles and handshakes all round on Pakistan’s border with Iran, as the presidents of the two countries posed on March 11th to mark the start of the construction of the...

Kashmir is not Palestine, India is not Israel! Palestinians have been thrown out of their ancestral land that the Jews have occupied. If there is any displacement that has occurred in Kashmir, it has been the ethnic cleansing faced by Hindu pandits. The analogy of comparing Kashmir with...

A nice video that illustrates the differences of the Civilian-Military relationships from the inception of either country to its current state. A lot of you might expect Pakistan-bashing and and Indian chest-thumping from this video, but you will be genuinely surprised by the comparisons he...

Why Almost Nobody Likes News About Pakistani Nuclear Security By Elaine M. Grossman Updated: March 8, 2013 | 11:27 a.m. A test launch of Pakistan-made Ghaznavi missile at undisclosed location in Pakistan Thursday, May 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Interservices Public Relations department)...

Forbidden Love Wins Pakistani Hearts as TV Tackles Social Taboos By Haris Anwar - Mar 6, 2013 2:00 PM ET As Nihal prepared to marry Behlul, not everything was going to plan. Wielding a gun, the bride’s stepmother declared undying love for the groom and said she couldn’t live without him...

Let’s stop promoting corruption in Pakistan’s universities. By Pervez Hoodbhoy Published: January 4, 2013 The writer is a retired professor of physics from Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad. Imagine the following experiment aimed at improving Karachi’s police force...

Good Taliban, Bad Taliban? Pakistani commander's killing exposes blurry lines. Analysts say the US drone killing of a 'Good Taliban' commander in Pakistan could unleash new violence by anti-government insurgents - or undo peace talks with the Taliban in Afghanistan. Pakistani Taliban...

Blood Line: Afghanistan and Pakistan’s Unspoken Border Dispute By Amir Ramin and Nadia Siddiqui Afghanistan and Pakistan are in talks to sign a strategic agreement by the end of 2013. This is the first time Afghanistan and Pakistan have agreed to discuss a strategic partnership with the...

With Peshawar under attack, Pakistan looks the other way By Myra MacDonald December 29, 2012 Pakistan has been facing gun and bomb attacks for so long, it is tempting to think it will continue to muddle along, the situation never becoming so bad as to galvanise it into action. And maybe...

VIEW : Playing all sides of the fence — Saad Hafiz The TTP can easily mobilise the religious constituency in the country around their homespun Islamic jehadi message. There is nothing new in the pattern of condemnations and wake up calls after the recent assassination of Bashir Bilour by...

Hello Admin. , It seems that there is an extremely poor and naive implementation of word-filtering currently in the system. Wouldn't you rather filter words converting them (say) into lowercase than simple exact-word matching from the list of stop/filter words ? This is one of the ways to...

Pakistan in 2013: Yes, it could get worse This is the third in a series of entries looking at what we can expect in 2013. Each weekday, a guest analyst will look at the key challenges facing a selected country – and what next year might hold in store. By Michael Kugelman, Special to CNN...

Export orders diverted to India due to transporters’ strike our correspondent Thursday, December 13, 2012 From Print Edition KARACHI: Pakistan is losing export orders of fruits and vegetables worth millions of dollars everyday due to the goods transporters’ strike, said an...