By Azizullah Qazi It\’s amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people yourself is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral, self-righteous, bullying laziness. I just want […]
Dying for a loaf of bread and competing with America Read More »
By Nasira Jabeen What invites us to gather all the necessary ingredients of our composition as beings to give it each of the respective vents, is the truth of life; both of ourselves and other beings and the truth of the circumstances around us. Be it bitter or pleasant, as being the irrevocable truth, we
Salahuddin Khisraw Along the rippling Shandur Lake, people wake up in the tented city in cold atmosphere and wait for the most exhilarating match of the year. Polo is not just a game; rather it is a passion and craze of the mountain dwellers. Shandur is the highest polo ground of the world located at
The long-awaited 3G and 4G Spectrum Auction commenced and closed yesterday, after eight rounds of bidding as a result of which, the Government of Pakistan has managed to successfully raise $1.1 billion. Out of the four telecom providers competing in this auction, Mobilink, Telenor and Ufone managed to secure 3G licences, where as Zong owned
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“THE chief rarely expresses his personal opinion,” I vividly recall Gen Jahangir Karamat telling me over the telephone a few hours after he left his job as the chief of army staff all those years ago. My question to him was whether his proposal to set up a ‘national security council’ was a personal opinion
