S.A.J Shirazi
Violent crimes have been at historic up nationwide; they are rising sharply in all cities. The rise seems to have been set off by something more bewildering. Crime, as seen one among several forms of deviance, is a type of anomic behavior; some others characterize it as a more conscious response to social conditions, to stress, to the breakdown in law enforcement or social order, and to the labeling of certain behavior as deviant. Crime rates are driven by different factors in each society.
Photo to the right shows a Rickshaw driver in Laore taking nap on a side walk with his legs on the drivers’ seat. He is making sure that nobody runs away with his rickshaw while he is asleep.
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Owais Mughal
A friend of mine sent me this photo yesterday and it makes me smile every time I look at it. Text on first line is cut but still readable.
The photo is apparently signboard of a cell phone SIM card selling store with the message:
“Mobile cards of Jazz, PTCL, Paktel, Warid and GT are available. Additionally ‘Desi Ghee’ is also available.”
Guest post by Haider Mullick
When Senator Barack Obama advocated unilateral military action against Pakistan, if the Pakistani Army refused to act first on actionable intelligence, he was referring to President Musharraf’s so-called aloofness from this issue in Pakistan. Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded promptly and forcefully; it termed the senator’s remarks “irresponsible” and called them a cheap shot at scoring political points at home. Senator Hillary Clinton‘s assessment about Senator Obama‘s naive foreign policy perspective was echoed by Republican forerunners such as Mitt Romney who said Obama wants to “have tea with our enemies and bomb our allies.”
This op-ed will analyse the Senator’s speech with two major assumptions; the Senator’s speech advocated a paradigm shift in U.S. foreign policy toward the Muslim World from forced regime change to holistic economic, cultural and military engagement; second, despite his progressive ideas, the Senator’s remarks about Pakistan were ill-informed.
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