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• The Cairo I know

  Features

  Created: February, 2009 Author: Christine Hannon

   Horns blared in the stop and go traffic along the corniche, but I walked on, head held high, gliding in my steps.  Earbuds in, my head was filled with the melodies of John Coltrane.  Some may call it cheating; I call it maintaining my sanity.  In all...

• How Powerful is the Ethnic Card?

  Regional

  Created: February, 2009 Author: Dr. Moonis Ahmar

  Ethnicity is considered as a ‘time bomb’ and a lethal weapon which if used can destabilize a society. Depending on the nature of society, it is easy to mobilize people on ethnic and religious grounds than on genuine economic and political issues. If o...

• Water WARS

  Special Features

  Created: February, 2009 Author: Editors

  Energy and water issues in South Asia, if not resolved amicably, could be the cause of serious future conflicts in the region. Apart from the political wrangling, if there is a single important issue that has the potential to really spoil bilateral relati...

• Maldives: Election Fever

  Regional

  Created: February, 2009 Author: Waqas Ali Khan

  Presidential elections in the Maldives this year will decide the fate of Asia's longest-serving leader, President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom. Democracy may at last come to the Maldives. The country is having its first multi-party elections and many Maldivians b...

• India: Sweet words, slippery deeds

  Regional

  Created: February, 2009 Author: S. Zain Abbas

  While it endlessly talks peace, India is emerging as a mighty military machine and sending jitters down the spines of its neighbours. Talking to the Wall Street Journal on his recent visit to the US, President Asif Zardari has said that India has never be...

• Pakistan Needs A Bailout

  Regional

  Created: February, 2009 Author: Anya Hisam

  President Asif Ali Zardari has asked an assistance of $100 billion to help put the Pakistani economy back on track. It is in the interest of the international community to assist this strategically located, nuclear-armed nation but is it listening. Pakist...

• No Peace, No Honor

  Regional

  Created: February, 2009 Author: Staff

  George Bush succeeded in firmly entrenching US boots in Afghanistan in his eight-year stint. Prophet of Change Barack Obama is no different. He offers more of the same to this hapless part of the world. Australian military forces were committed to coaliti...

• Battle of the Begums

  Regional

  Created: February, 2009 Author: S.G. Jilanee

  Politicians in Bangladesh heaved a resounding sigh of relief on December 12, as the Caretaker government lifted the ban on political activity. For almost two years they had been under enforced hibernation if not hauled up on charges of corruption. Now at ...

• China: Revisiting Chimerica

  Regional

  Created: February, 2009 Author: Waqar Hamza

  The most important thing to understand about the world economy over the past 10 years is the relationship between China and America, an equation that has fallen on bad times. The term Chimerica has been used by Niall Ferguson for China as a new nation tha...

• Pakistan’s Trust Deficit

  Features

  Created: February, 2009 Author: Kunwar Idris

  Pakistan’s sovereign economic rating has fallen to a junk triple-C. Similarly rated, it would be lower for security and lower still for the institutions that handle the economy, security and every other matter of the state....

• An Open Secret

  Features

  Created: February, 2009 Author: Masood Nabi Khan

    Prostitution in Pakistan remains associated with human trafficking as trafficked women are sold into brothels. Ever since the independence of Bangladesh, the human trafficking has escalated as a growing  number of women are trafficked from Bangladesh...

• Destination Unknown

  Cover Stories

  Created: February, 2009 Author: S.G. Jilanee

    The peace process initiated after the Musharraf-Vajpayee parleys of January 2004, had been gaining momentum. There were tangible signs of a thaw as passenger buses began to ply between Muzaffarabad and Srinagar and meetings between Indian and Pakistan...

• US Elections – 2008 Pakistan Mania

  Cover Stories

  Created: February, 2009 Author: Aiman Zaki

  Much water has flowed down the Potomac ever since those heady days in the fifties and sixties when Pakistan was a proud US ally – the pride being of equal intensity on both sides. Those were the days of CENTO (also known as the Baghdad Pact) that compri...

• South Asian Showdown

  Cover Stories

  Created: February, 2009 Author: Javed Ansari

    When fighter jets of the Pakistan Air Force thundered over Islamabad, Rawalpindi and Lahore on the afternoon of Dec 22, the roar heightening fears of an imminent India-Pakistan war. There has been talk of an Indian air-strike on Muridke near Lahore, w...

• A Recipe for Peace

  Regional

  Created: February, 2009 Author: Editors

  They have tried all kinds of peace potions for Sri Lanka, a country torn by civil strife. What may work at the people’s level, however, is a concoction of Gandhian ideals. At first glance, Sri Lanka's vicious civil war might appear to have little conseq...