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What is Wrong With These Pictures?

Posted on July 18, 2008
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Adil Najam
These pictures are of the violence and mayhem that erupted outside the Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad Stock Exchanges on Thursday after the market plunged yet again, to a 18-month low. Look at them carefully. What is wrong with them?

Movie: “Son of a Lion” by Benjamin Gilmour

Posted on July 13, 2008
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Junaid N. Sahibzada
It just happened to be a co-incidence that I met Benjamin Gilmour, a Sydney paramedic by profession and a movie maker by passion.
A friend of mine had sent me an email telling me of some one who had visited Pakistan and fell in love with the culture and people of the North West [...]

Curry… cooked in a hurry

Posted on July 10, 2008
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Owais Mughal
If you think I am going to tell you a curry recipe’ then you are mistaken. Eventhough there is gallons of curry involved in this write-up but wait till I get to it. Let me build up the background first. Our home in Karachi has a cricket ground located next to it. Being [...]

Aisha Sarwari
In an exciting new technology launch at Marriott Islamabad on July 1st, ICT R&D Fund sponsored the Campus Career Portals initiative, with 6 leading university rectors and other EVPs of leading Industry present at the launch. The aim was to officially begin the roll out of giving away costly technology to Universities completely free [...]

Owais Mughal and Adil Najam

Following yesterday’s murderous attack on Islamabad, Karachi has been rocked today by a series of blasts (seven reported till now).

Will the ‘Carrot and Stick’ Work in NWFP?

Posted on June 30, 2008
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Manzoor Ali Shah
The situation in NWFP is gradually slipping away from the control of government in the face of mounting militant’s attacks in the province and FATA. Amid the fears that the Peshawar too could fall to the militants, authorities have launched an operation in the neighboring Khyber Agency against a militant organization Lashkar-e-Islam (LI), [...]

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