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• Mcdonalds & Mausoleums

  Special Features

  Created: April, 2009 Author: Christine Hannon

    I landed in Cairo on the third day of Ramadan – the month when Muslims around the world fast from sunrise to sunset, eating sehour before daybreak and iftar at dusk. Ramadan, which is the ninth month in the Islamic calendar, is immensely important t...

• Author Kamran Pasha: The Forgotten Faith

  Books & Arts

  Created: April, 2009 Author: Wamiq Jawaid

  “I am actually not of the school that keeps saying that colonialism is the root cause of all of Muslims problems, but rather I believe that it was our mindsets and attitudes that brought colonialism to us.” - Kamran Pasha is a promin...

• Pakistan: Who gets what?

  Regional

  Created: April, 2009 Author: Syed Jawaid Iqbal

    Musharraf may not be on Pakistan's national scene since August 18, 2008, the day he resigned as president of the country but, in my opinion, he still continues to be 'top of the mind', as we say in marketing jargon, for politicians, columnists and TV ...

• India: The Next Frontier

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  Created: April, 2009 Author: Wamiq Jawaid

  In the early 20th century, Einstein’s theory of special relativity gave new significance to the speed of light.  He held the coefficient of light to be constant giving rise to the model for space-time continuum.  Time therefore could now be stretched ...

• Swat: The Cost of Peace

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  Created: April, 2009 Author: Farzana Shah

   On 16 Feb. 2009, NWFP government and militants signed a deal according to which the government will implement Islamic Sharia in Malakand division under Nizam-e-Adal Regulations. The immediate effect of this deal was a sudden ceasefire in Swat's troubled...

• Sri-Lanka: Peace?

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  Created: April, 2009 Author: Ekram Kabir

  The civil war in Sri Lanka is almost over and peace is just around the corner. But since peace too has its dark dividends, the island nation is now bracing itself for the next phase. The people of Sri Lanka are already celebrating the victory over the LTT...

• Mutiny in the Bangladesh Rifles

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

  It was, by all accounts a tragedy of colossal magnitude, almost reminiscent of the “Sepoy Mutiny” of 1857. Then,  the discontented Indian sepoys mutinied and brutally killed their British officers. Now, on February 25, the equally disgruntled Banglad...

• The New Afghan Strategy

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  Created: April, 2009 Author: Arsla Jawaid

     Coalition service member hands out medicine to Afghan children as part of a MEDCAP (Medical Civic AssistanceProgram) in the Khowst province on June 21, 2007. This is helpful for the men, women and children who need medical treatment. (U.S. Army phot...

• China's wall of Stability

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  Created: April, 2009 Author: Ahmed Ali

    Speaking at a panel discussion with deputies of the National People's Congress (NPC) from the Tibet Autonomous Region, just before the 50th anniversary of the foiling of an armed rebellion led by the Dalai Lama's supporters, Chinese President Hu Jinta...

• Kick-starting the System

  Special Features

  Created: April, 2009 Author: Roger Pitts

      Layoffs on Wall Street and Main Street are just anindication of the challenges ahead for the World LeadersCourtesy: Flickr ImagesThe five biggest investment banks in the world (Lehman Brothers, etc.) have vanished in the financial carnage. The two...

• Justice at the Grassroots

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  Created: April, 2009 Author: Keith Brown

    The judicial system in Nepal is in generally good health. All it needs to do is deliver justice at the grassroots level. The new Constituent Assembly in Nepal faces a very sensitive issues - that of restructuring the existing judiciary. Some form of...

• The Complexity of Musharraf

  Special Features

  Created: April, 2009 Author: Karan Thapar

    Musharraf exemplifies a further quality Indian politicians would do well to emulate. He's prepared to face up to his critics, take their hostile questions and spend hours defending his position whilst attempting to change theirs. I have to admit, I'v...

• A Sexist South Asia

  Special Features

  Created: April, 2009 Author: SouthAsia

    Are women discriminated against when it comes to pay and promotions? A startling study finds that gender-discrimination is a cultural trait of South Asia. This is bad news for those who believe that South Asian women would be empowered if only they ...

• Vacation to Detox

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  Created: April, 2009 Author: Aarti Jain

  The Indian state of Goa has been a big draw for many tourists since the days of the hippie trail in the 1960s. Now some of them are coming back to kick the habit as several drug rehabilitation centers have sprung up in Goa that offer detox programs.  ...

• Life and Debt

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  Created: April, 2009 Author: Ajay Sharma

    Nepal may not be as badly hit by the global economic disaster but it needs judicious financial management to ride out the bad times. The causes and consequences of the global economic meltdown and potential corrective measures have become the priorit...

• Playing the Blame Game

  Features

  Created: April, 2009 Author: Bhagirath Yogi

    The protracted problem of the integration of Nepal's People's Liberation Army (PLA) is far from closed. The problem is political rather than military. The peace deal was conceived so that there would not be a military solution to the decade-long confl...

• Something's Got to Give

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  Created: April, 2009 Author: Rajdeep Sardesai

  One of the more joyous moments of fatherhood was taking my son, then all of nine years, to watch an India-Pakistan one-day match in Lahore in 2004. Our Pakistani friends had rolled out the traditional Punjabi hospitality: from the waiting limousine at the...

• Back in Business

  Features

  Created: April, 2009 Author: Arjuna Vikrama Singhae

    NGOs (non-governmental organizations) require conditions of human misery, whether induced by conflict or natural disaster, to justify their very existence. In the absence of such human suffering, such organisations would be redundant and their staff w...

• Being Right to be Left

  Features

  Created: April, 2009 Author: Shamail Alvi

    The greetings to the Eighth Congress of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist Leninist), held from February 16-21 in Butwal, read in part thus:  "The eighth Congress of the CPN (UML) is taking place at a crucial juncture. The entire world is ...

• Memory of Bhutto

  Features

  Created: April, 2009 Author: Khawaja Umer from Pakistan

    This is the month of April and the fourth day of April reminds me of the wayward course of our history I never even witnessed. On this day, thirty years ago, military ruler General Zia-ul-Haq tried to kill Mr. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto but ended up making h...