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Iraq: Operation Over?
Posted by Guest on 07 2nd, 2009
Faris Islam asks if future nights in Baghdad will be punctuated with fireworks or more fighting? When explosions were heard across Baghdad on Monday night, the Iraqi people knew that this time, the explosions were a cause for celebration, not fear....
Gone fishing
Gone fishing
Posted by Nadeem F. Paracha on 07 1st, 2009
Looking at one of the many anti-US banners put up by the Jamat Islami before their June 28 rally, (saying ‘Go America Go,’ and ‘We hate America’),  instantly reminded me of a rather ironic episode many years ago. While studying as a Graduate...
The media’s Iran problem
The media’s Iran problem
Posted by Guest on 06 30th, 2009
Faris Islam writes about how reporting on the current situation in Tehran has been fraught with difficulties. As events in Iran have dominated headlines throughout the world, a glaring problem has arisen both in the reporting and analysis of the...
The expat dilemma
The expat dilemma
Posted by Nosheen Abbas on 06 30th, 2009
Expatriate families face different kinds of challenges when they return to their native country, writes Nosheen Abbas. Shifting from one country to another usually entails the upheaval of an individual’s existence. But for expatriates, returning...
Michael Jackson is in all of us
Michael Jackson is in all of us
Posted by Huma on 06 26th, 2009
Desis made the King of Pop one of their own a long time ago, writes Huma Yusuf. One of my best friends and I first started talking because of Michael Jackson. It was 1991, and satellite dishes were creeping into Pakistan. Weeks after my family splurged...
Of cricket and other demons
Of cricket and other demons
Posted by Nadeem F. Paracha on 06 25th, 2009
Is Pakistan winning this year’s Twenty20 a symptom of the receding influence of the Tableeghi Jammat in the team, asks Nadeem F. Paracha. In 1996 when the underdog Sri Lankan cricket team created one upset after another to finally win that year’s...
Natural selection
Natural selection
Posted by Imran Yusuf on 06 24th, 2009
Shahid Afridi, Kamran Akmal, Younus Khan, Umar Gul? Nope. Mohammed Aamir was Imran Yusuf’s favourite World Cup story. The next Twenty20 World Cup takes place in May 2010 and I’m already looking forward to seeing which new left-arm quick...
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