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• The Girl Ritual

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  Created: January, 2010 Author: Manam Iqbal

  Nepal offers stunning physical beauty and an equally colourful diorama of cultures to visiting tourists.The Newari community which constitutes a mere 5.4% of the total Nepalese population has a superbly vibrant, colourful and rich culture with religious a...

• Flowing Elegance

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  Created: January, 2010 Author: Jalil Ahmed

  South Asia's signature female attire, the sari is also a modern fashion statement. Besides being staple everyday wear for women in the South Asian region, the sari is an eloquent fashion statement as well. More than an estimated 600 million women in five ...

• No Place For The Hapless

  Features

  Created: January, 2010 Author: Basil Nabi Malik

  Another issue relating to the Tamil population of Sri Lanka is raising its head.We are civilians, not Tamill Tigers. Every day there are Tamils being killed and raped in the refugee camps. Men are blindfolded and shot in the back of the head. In Sri Lanka...

• The Pleasures Of Reading - In Jail!

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  Created: January, 2010 Author: Huma Iqbal

  A book publishing house has taken a commendable initiative by setting up a book club for the inmates of a well-known jail in Pakistan. Many a person who loved books but never had time to read, has caught up on his reading in jail. The nature of a public l...

• Hollywood's New Love Affair

  Features

  Created: January, 2010 Author: Ayesha Asif

  The mainstream film industry in America is opening new doors for South Asian talent.Sit up and take note. South Asians are making inroads into Hollywood. From acting to direction, music, writing, cinematography and technical credits, South Asian talent is...

• Milestones Of National Identity

  Features

  Created: January, 2010 Author: Rafe Ayubzai

  The Citizens Archives of Pakistan (CAPS) is a commendable initiative aimed at preserving the history of Pakistan. It tries to organize the Shanaakht Festival every year to bring into focus the aspirations and activities of the Society based on the memorab...

• Copenhagen - A Copout?

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  Created: January, 2010 Author: Tahera Sajid

  The Copenhagen Summit did not produce the desired results and seemed to move to another year of deliberation. Nature does not negotiate.The much talked about and highly anticipated UN Conference on Climate Change that had been two years in the making, ope...

• A Thought For The Kids

  Features

  Created: January, 2010 Author: Aleena Iqbal

  The future of child brick factory workers in Bangladesh is shackled in physical labour more permanent than steel bars.A majority of children in Bangladesh are born to work. According to the UN Children's Fund report, more than 6.3 million children under 1...

• An Epidemic of Suicides

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  Created: January, 2010 Author: Farzana Shah

  The graph of suicides amongst US soldiers deployed on overseas war fronts is rising dangerously.In a new troops surge, the US has announced deployment of 30,000 additional troops in Afghanistan while there are some 68,000 American soldiers already fightin...

• Going Soft on Terror Coverage

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  Created: January, 2010 Author: Mohsin Ali Jamil

  In an important move, leading television news channels in Pakistan have put in place a voluntary code of conduct governing coverage of terrorism related incidents. Should the strategies of commandos trying to save hundreds of people trapped in a building ...

• Return to Quaid's Pakistan

  Special Features

  Created: January, 2010 Author: Mansoor Alam

  One can only hope that the Mullah will learn from the history that a state which does not provide space for the freedom of though and expression, allows tolerance for others beliefs and diversity of culture digs its own grave. ...

• Slow Burner

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  Created: January, 2010 Author: Chris Cork

  President Barack Obama is emerging as a thoughtful man who does not shoot from the hip. Almost a year into the Obama Presidency there is beginning to be a shape to the vision of the world that he had before entering the White House, and it is perhaps not ...

• And the Twain Shall Meet

  Special Features

  Created: January, 2010 Author: Hammad Raza

  The US and China may have formed a ‘G-2' but their new house of harmony is not without frictions. The sun of President Bush's legacy, marked by a disastrous doctrine of unilateralism and designs of preemptive strikes, seems to be sinking over the horizo...

• New Challenge for Democracy

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  Created: January, 2010 Author: Nishchal N. Pandey

  The democratic process in Nepal has again hit glitches, with political players resorting to flexing their muscles and seriously endangering national integrity. Even after the cessation of hostilities by the major armed group, the CPN (Maoists), Nepal has ...

• The War and After

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  Created: January, 2010 Author: Dr. S. I. Keetha

  Until both the Presidential and Parliamentary elections are over in Sri Lanka, there can hardly be any move on the ethnic conflict resolution or reconciliation fronts. The intensity of the internal civil war between the Sri Lankan armed forces and the LTT...

• End of The Road, At Last?

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  Created: January, 2010 Author: Syed Jawaid Iqbal

  The curtain has at long last been drawn on the gruesome tragedy of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's assassination.He was the founder of Bangladesh. He was hailed as "Bangabandhu," (friend of Bengal). The tumultuous reception on his return from Pakistan's captivity...

• And They Call The Shots

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  Created: January, 2010 Author: Javed Ansari

  Who really rules Pakistan? The latest buzz doing the rounds in Pakistan is that whatever the ramifications of the NRO having been declared null and void, President Asif Ali Zardari is one person who is not ready yet to call it quits. In fact, from the las...

• Potential for Success

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  Created: January, 2010 Author: Dr. Ashfaque H. Khan

  The Pakistani economy is destined to succeed if it can be turned around in the short-to-medium term. The first seven years (2000-2007) of the current decade witnessed Pakistan's economy growing robustly and its economic fundamentals gaining traction. In...

• A Nexus for Instability

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  Created: January, 2010 Author: Dr. Moonis Ahmar

  India's grand designs in Afghanistan, including training of Afghan armed forces, is not helping to stabilize the security situation on Pakistan's western flank. Afghanistan is fast emerging as another area of serious conflict between India and Pakistan. I...

• Babri Mosque Revisited

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  Created: January, 2010 Author: S.G. Jilanee

  That long before Babri Masjid was demolished, Yusuf Afghan, editor of The Illustrated Weekly of Pakistan, had remarked "India is Hindu; calls itself secular."First it was the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. Barely five months after India's independence a...