India-Pakistan Samjhota Express Blast: 60+ Dead

Posted on February 19, 2007
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Adil Najam In a tragic development – and what is clearly the most serious threat to recent headways in the India-Pakistan peace process – a train bound from India to Pakistan (Samjhota Express) caught fire, reportedly because of two crude home-made bombs which exploded. Over 60 people are reported dead, most of them Pakistanis returning […]

Land Reform: Time for Feudalism to go

Posted on February 5, 2007
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Adil Najam The Pakistan Kisan Conference met in Lahore this Sunday and (again) demanded an end to feudalism. My first reaction to reading the news was to remember Faiz (remembering Faiz, by the way, is my default mode in just about all matters): youN arz o talab say kab aiye dill, pathar-dil paani houtay haiN […]

Bloggers Become Source for Mainstream Media in Pakistan

Posted on January 28, 2007
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Guest Post by Awab Alvi (Teeth Maestro) Citizen Journalism, more commonly known as blogging allows anyone the ability to discuss and report an issue or news item immediately, and certainly far sooner then the early morning paper produced by the main stream media. Pakistan is not far behind as blogging is slowly becoming popular and […]

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