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• The Tearful Sky

  Regional

  Created: September, 2009 Author: Newsweek

  Recent headlines about the sexual and social discrimination the women in China have had to face were jarring. In July this year, five local officials in China's southwest Province Guizhou were jailed for forcing underage rural girls into the sex trade; th...

• America's Unruly Child

  Regional

  Created: September, 2009 Author: Asma Shabab

  Did North Korea free the detained US journalists on goodwill or did they have any 'ulterior motives' behind it? How will the US handle its 'unruly child'. Earlier last month North Korea finally agreed to release the two US journalists it had detained sinc...

• No More a Miracle!

  Books & Arts

  Created: September, 2009 Author: Nida Nasir

  Jacqueline Novogratz is the founder and CEO of Acumen Fund, a nonprofit venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs bringing affordable and sustainable basic facilities to people living in poverty. She travels frequently and currently resides in N...

• Is Anybody Listening?

  Books & Arts

  Created: September, 2009 Author: Abdullah Rehman

  Arundhati Roy, the Booker Prize-winning novelist, seeks to draw attention in her book, Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers, on India's state and society which according to her “often fall dreadfully short of the liberal, democratic ideal...

• How Leaders Look - and How They Ought To

  Special Features

  Created: September, 2009 Author: Aakar Patel

  Iran's President Ahmedinejad wears a jacket and trousers but never a tie. He wears his shirt with a couple of buttons undone, and looks like he's just finished work rather than about to do some. What is modern Iranian dress? I'm not sure. V S Naipaul when...

• '…there is nothing like a perfectly just society.'

  Special Features

  Created: September, 2009 Author: Dr. Amartya Sen

  India has not done enough to eliminate hunger, deprivation and gender inequality, says Dr. Amartya Sen. Nobel laureate Dr. Amartya Sen won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998. ...

• Opium Please!

  Features

  Created: September, 2009 Author: Rukmini Callimachi

   Afghan villagers have been pushed into extreme poverty as the government has failed to fulfill its promise to provide a better crop substitute after curbing the poppy cultivation. A few years back, the common currency in Afghanistan was what grew in...

• Pakistan's Auto Industry in Decline?

  Special Features

  Created: September, 2009 Author: Hafsa Ahsan

    In times when consumers are experiencing increasing costs of living, cars are becoming a luxury item. It is an economic fact that when the global economy is facing a downturn, it inevitably affects individual countries as well - given the increasing i...

• Escapism From Life: Suicides in South Asia

  Special Features

  Created: September, 2009 Author: Tahera Sajid

    Suicide is a major cause of death around the world. Are developing countries of South Asia equipped to handle this challenge. The World Suicide Prevention Day is held on September 10th every year since its creation in 2003. The event, organised by the...

• The Missing Girls

  Features

  Created: September, 2009 Author: Sara Iqbal

   Why is the female population in many parts of India below normal levels? Because of a strong social bias against women. According to a report by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) up to 50 million girls and women are missing from India's po...

• Spoils of War

  Features

  Created: September, 2009 Author: Naima Ahmed

   The fate of the child soldiers in Nepal remains dark. With no where to go and no skills to survive, these children are the unwanted spoils of the war in the country. Facing the worst political crises in history, Nepal has suffered continuous attacks...

• Too Young to Die

  Features

  Created: September, 2009 Author: Asma Amin

  The story of a child bride is not reserved for history books; it is something that is happening even today. According to the Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit, the South Asian region has one of the highest numbers of child marriages, second only to sub S...

• Saving the tigers

  Special Features

  Created: September, 2009 Author: Shamim Ali

  Tigers are a valuable part of India's wildlife habitat but are fast diminishing in numbers at the hands of unscrupulous poachers. This has been the deadliest in recent years for the big cats - the tigers - in India. The government has been making all the ...

• Wind Power

  Special Features

  Created: September, 2009 Author: Huma Iqbal

  Pakistan takes a leap by exploring its renewable energy resources like wind to overcome the energy crisis in the country. Kharochhan, a tiny island of fishermen in Pakistan took the initiative to cope with the energy crisis in the country and went ahead i...

• 'Cricketism' in Pakistan

  Features

  Created: September, 2009 Author: Ayesha Shuaib

  On Monday June 21, 2009, the Pakistani Nation had a reason to celebrate. In a region where cricket is idolized by the masses, Pakistan's win in the Twenty 20 World Cup came as a much needed gift to the whole nation. Pakistan has been suffering from t...

• Bollywood Tweets

  Special Features

  Created: September, 2009 Author: Amin Riaz

    Taking a lead from their Hollywood counterparts, India's Hindi-language film stars are getting online, using the Internet to get closer to their fans. Bollywood runs in the blood of all Indians. With the favourite actors as the kings and queens of the...

• The Virtual Microphone

  Special Features

  Created: September, 2009 Author: Sarah Rehman

  South Asian blogs are becoming collaborative spaces addressing several socialistic, nationalistic, and political issues. Not so long ago what emerged as a comprehensive log of interesting web links called Robot Wisdom WebLog has now been evolved into a ve...

• Bringing Musharraf To Trial

  Cover Stories

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

    Putting former President Musharraf on trial for high treason may appear laudable but it might spawn more problems than it is expected to solve. The air is thick over the country with a cacophonous outcry from assorted quarters calling for ex-president...

• The Power to Disrupt?

  Regional

  Created: September, 2009 Author: S.G Jilanee

  'Power to the people' can become dangerous and unfettered if unchecked. Allowed to drift, it might lead to disaster. “People's power” and “Power to the people” are slogans that have an irresistible allure. Their idealistic ring injects adrenalin...

• The Mehsud Legacy

  Regional

  Created: September, 2009 Author: Tehreem Mehmood

  TTP Leader Baitullah Mehsud's death came as news of relief to the terror-stricken people. However, Hakimullah's accession to power eroded all hope for the end of militancy in the country. What does the new TTP leadership mean for peace in the region. Th...