There Are 5,000 Janitors in the U.S. with PhDs
There are 18,000 parking lot attendants in the U.S. with college degrees. There are 5,000 janitors in the U.S. with PhDs. In all, some 17 million college-educated Americans have jobs that don't require their level of education. Why?
The data...
Big fat Dubai wedding: Bollywood and Musharraf
Star-studded wedding saw SRK, Hrithik and Kareena
By Ajanta Paul
Published Thursday, January 05, 2012
Bollywood stars attend big fat wedding in Dubai over New Year. (AFP FILE)
Was it only a simple year-end vacation that drew many Bollywood...
Copyright Corruption Scandal Surrounds Anti-Piracy Campaign
Anti-piracy group BREIN is caught up in a huge copyright scandal in the Netherlands. A musician who composed a track for use at a local film festival later found it being used without permission in an anti-piracy campaign. He is now...
In a rally yesterday Shah Mahmood played the nuclear card i.e. it is not safe etc
here is a video in which he states that they are absolutely safe and if I am right nothing has changed between then and now except he is no longer the FM and to the best of my knowledge a FM has no role in...
Second coming
A brilliant cricketer hopes that decency and charisma can overturn a corrupt political order
Nov 12th 2011 | ISLAMABAD | from the print edition
AS A magnificent fast bowler, Imran Khan terrorised batsmen. Now a politician, he told an adoring crowd late last month that one of...
A Road to Mecca
More than 80 years ago, one man crossed the frontline between the Muslim world and the West - we retrace his journey.
In A Road to Mecca, filmmaker George Misch sets out to explore the frontline between the Muslim world and the West. His guide for this journey is a man from the...
Imran in full
Nov 8th 2011, 11:32 by A.R. | DELHI
Pakistan, a personal history by Imran Khan. Bantam Press. 391 pages. 2011
JUDGE only by Imran Khans latest book and it seems remarkable that Pakistans famous cricketer and philanthropist is not already his countrys dominant political...
Why I Feel Sorry For Nawaz Sharif
November 5th, 2011
Raza Habib Raja
Yes, it is early to say anything and there is every chance that the bubble will burst as quickly as it has arisen. But realistically speaking, since I am from the hinterland of Punjab, the descent for PML (N) has begun...
For richer, for smarter
MARRIAGE, and its many ups and downs, still exercises a powerful hold over newspapers, magazines and the airwaves. Nearly 23m Americans watched Prince William being joined in holy matrimony to Kate Middleton. Millions more have wallowed in the break-up of Arnold...
Quetta Shopkeeper makes a fool out of MI6, CIA, NATO, RAMA, Karzai
The US spin doctors at the various agencies are trying to put up a nice face to the episode of the Taliban impostor. Apparently the entire might of America, Europe and Afghanistan could not discover the true identity of a Quetta...
Gaddafi's Oddest Idea: Abolish Switzerland
In his rambling diatribe to the U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 23, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi criticized the world body for being unfair to small nations. The comment struck a chord with the Swiss, since Gaddafi has been on a self-proclaimed mission...
The Ten Worst Hosts On Pakistani Television
It is difficult to select ten rotten eggs from a huge varied bunch whose repertoire includes alleged murder, sensationalism, trying to bring down the government, accepting bribes, and just plain stupidity. Tough job, but its high time it was done...
There has been a lot of hype created by the MQM regarding tomorrow's convention in lahore, which will show the popularity of MQM in punjab.
But now MQM has invited PTI, PMLQ and PPP to attend their convention possibly to have a larger number of people and therefore have the bragging rights that...
Prepare for ‘water stress’
Mir Adnan Aziz
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
The word rival originates from Latin rivalis, meaning sharing a river. A water war between two Sumerian city-states, Lagash and Umma, 4,500 years ago, is recorded on a stone carving. However, the subsequent...
COAS condemns todays drone attack
Updated at 2130 PST Thursday, March 17, 2011
RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani strongly condemned the predator strike carried out today in North Waziristan Agency resulting into loss of innocent lives.
It is highly...