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• Rituals Revisited

  Books & Arts

  Created: December, 2009 Author: Zain Ali

  The further the great Indian middle class moves away from organized religion, the stronger spiritualism and religious philosophy seem to become in the Other India. William Dalrymple discovers this from the lives of a young Jain nun who sets on the path of...

• Rising Voices

  Books & Arts

  Created: December, 2009 Author: SAO

  This compilation includes fiction and poetry by women writers from more than 30 Asian countries, including China, Japan, Korea, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon, Azerbaijan, Israel and Russia, to name...

• War Against Extinction

  Features

  Created: December, 2009 Author: Charles Haviland

  Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed hopes nations most vulnerable to climate change will set an example to richer countries. On a cloudy day in the Baa atoll of the northern Maldives, I took a speedboat ride across a choppy sea. No part of the Maldives lie...

• Building Bridges

  Features

  Created: December, 2009 Author: Sarah Alam

  The Pak-US Alumni Association came into existence in September 2008 with the mission of promoting and sustaining mutual understanding and sharing of ideas between the people of the United States and Pakistan through various exchanges to strengthen a compl...

• The Show Must Go On

  Features

  Created: December, 2009 Author: Tahera Sajid

  How wonderful it is to leave the drudgery of daily existence and lose yourself in the fantastic, colourful world of the circus. The Wikipedia defines the circus as “a travelling company of performers that may include acrobats, clowns, animals, trapeze a...

• A Valley Not Too Far

  Features

  Created: December, 2009 Author: Mudassir Jalal

  When visiting Bhutan, make it a point to visit the Paro Valley and the Takstang Monastery. Bhutan, wedged between China and India, is the only independent Himalayan Buddhist kingdom to survive political changes in the region in the last half century. It i...

• Empowerment in Stone

  Features

  Created: December, 2009 Author: Nida Naz

  UP Chief Minister Mayawati is a woman with a lot of guts and determination. But will her extravagant stone monuments actually benefit millions of her fellow Dalits. Towering statues of the heroes of India’s ‘untouchable’ caste, shrouded in blue tarp...

• An Enthralling Festival

  Features

  Created: December, 2009 Author: Zeeshan Haider

  As we crossed the Pakistan /India border, we sensed a rush of adrenaline running through us. The hard work that we had put in all these months was soon to be tested. The experience was enthralling. But before I go into the details, let me share with you t...

• Heaven on Earth

  Features

  Created: December, 2009 Author: Mudassir Jalal

  Visit Hunza and be overwhelmed by the rugged charm and fragrant landscape of this beautiful valley. Deep in the mountains of the Hindu Kush in northern Pakistan, high above sea level lies a valley called Hunza. The Hunza valley is surrounded by the Karako...

• No Future for a Dying Craft

  Features

  Created: December, 2009 Author: Syed Aqeel Ahmed

  The city of Herat, once a recognised centre for silk production, has lost the craft to the vagaries of war and cheap competition. Eight years have passed since a new future for Afghanistan was mapped out at an international conference in Bonn. But neither...

• Good News for Maternal Mortality

  Features

  Created: December, 2009 Author: Komal Raza

  Committed people like Dr. Shershah Syed are giving new hope to problems concerning maternal health. As part of the Millennium Development Goal programme, Pakistan is committed to bringing down its Maternal Mortality rate by 2010. According to the World He...

• Hope for the Untouchables

  Features

  Created: December, 2009 Author: Seema Patel

  The constitution of Nepal guarantees equality for the Dalits but in the real world, the Dalits are still openly treated as less than human. Is there hope? The caste system in Nepal has long discriminated against a certain section of society. These people ...

• Pipeline Politics

  Special Features

  Created: December, 2009 Author: Farzana Shah

  India and Pakistan face serious energy problems but purchasing gas from Iran does not offer an easy option after all.The Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, on a visit to India recently, held talks with Indian officials on the stalled tri-nation ...

• Charm Offensive

  Special Features

  Created: December, 2009 Author: Ilhan Niaz

  Did US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton succeed in sweet-talking her hosts in Pakistan and the Middle East and fostering new relationships in the region during her recent visit? Hillary Clinton's recent visit to Pakistan and the Middle East does not alt...

• Will Pakistan be Fragmented?

  Special Features

  Created: December, 2009 Author: Latheef Farook

  Will Pakistan, the only Muslim nuclear country, be fragmented as it was done in Iraq? This is the common fear among Pakistanis in view of the forces - United States, Europe and Israel - that turned Iraq and Afghanistan into slaughterhouses, appear to be r...

• Citizens of Nowhere

  Cover Stories

  Created: December, 2009 Author: Daud Islam

  The 250,000 Pakistanis stranded in 66 camps in Bangladesh have been described as the ‘most forgotten people of the world.' These are the people for whom the future seems to have frozen. Having their identity denied after the fall of Dhaka in 1971, a who...

• History's Ghettos

  Cover Stories

  Created: December, 2009 Author: Ehtesham Arshad

  The living conditions in which the stranded Pakistanis in Bangladesh live, is nothing but a shame on the governments of both sides. Since December 16, 1971 about 250,000 Pakistanis have been stranded in Bangladesh, confined to living in 66 camps spread ac...

• Quandary of the Abandoned

  Cover Stories

  Created: December, 2009 Author: SAO

  Almost forty years on, these 250,000 souls still remain loyal to their motherland - Pakistan - and dream of living there one day. But do they have hope? Here is an analysis from an ‘Eyewitness' who saw it all happen.Pathetic, by any yardstick! But, that...

• A Forgotten Affair?

  Cover Stories

  Created: December, 2009 Author: Dr. Moonis Ahmar

  The stranded Pakistanis may have become a victim of politics, opportunism and the selfishness of successive governments, but the legacy of their sufferings will not die down so easily. On May 19, 2008, the Dhaka High Court in a landmark judgment approved ...

• The Abandoned Patriots

  Cover Stories

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

  Abandoned by their countrymen, Biharis in Bangladesh cling to the claim that they are Pakistanis and hope to be accepted by their chosen motherland someday. Once in a while a thought is spared in blasé Pakistan for the forsaken Biharis. This is one such ...