Archive for the ‘The World’ Category

Oh Come on Indians! I’m not buying this load of crap!

Tuesday, December 2, 2008 21:23 5 Comments

Stunned, shocked and silent I was when a handful of terrorists handicapped a metropolis like ‘Mumbai’. How indiscriminate they were in the way they showered innocent people with bullets, killing around 200 people.
But here’s when I started to smell something fishy. Did you see how much in control over the entire situation they were? Almost [...]

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Time to go solo: Stop Begging, Start Building!

Saturday, November 29, 2008 14:34 1 Comment

By Laila Sohail
Saturday, 29th November - 2008
The economic crisis has taken us exactly where it was expected…straight into the account books of the big bosses at the IMF We may be told that it’s a do or die situation, but there are options available. We should first get the IMF off our [...]

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No to the President, No to the Media

Monday, October 27, 2008 0:10 6 Comments

If there was to be a sequel to the movie Mr. Bean’s Holiday, it would be called President Goes to the USA. While Mr. President had a rendezvous half way across the globe with ex girl friends and beauty pageant winners, those back home wished he hadn’t left Islamabad in the first place. The media [...]

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One last shift: Let us stop banking on the USA

Sunday, October 19, 2008 0:19 7 Comments

By Syed Ammar Faheem

Sunday, 19th October - 2008
America is collapsing under systems and practices of its own. In such turbulent times, when not only the USA but Europe as well, face this man made financial catastrophe – the world is looking towards China with hope and despair! Why are we still allied to the USA? [...]

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Don’t listen to him, listen to Kayani…

Monday, October 6, 2008 20:29 8 Comments

By Syed Ammar Faheem

Monday, 6th October - 2008
Who is speaking through Zardari? He has termed the freedom fighters in the Kashmir valley as ‘terrorists’. The U-turns and immature statements made by the PPP government and the President have been depressing and frustrating at the same time. They seem to be adamant to change what we [...]

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