On Nov 1 every year, the people of Gilgit-Baltistan observe independence day. Exactly 65 years back today, the people of this region won independence from the Dogra rule through their sheer bravery and valour. However, after the passage of over six decades, the masses of the area feel that they are still in search of […]
“Ma Xohor Chumutcare Hoi”…It is the sentence which scares the little kohled eyes; turns the innocent red lips into pale and breaks the series of dreams yet to be planed. This is the sentence which puts the daughters of Hawa in perplexity who used to run behind the butterflies free from any anxiety till yesterday.
CHITRAL, Oct 31, 2012: It is not unusual for Mullahs (religious clerics) to spread extremism when they have nothing sensible to deliver. Fortunately, our youth are intelligent and mature enough to understand that Mullahs are xenophobic and that is the only genuine reason why their ‘preaching’ always falls on ‘deaf ears’. Like all other youth, I
CHITRAL: Education is meant fundamentally for a person to learn manners. What is done these days is that a child is being induced with the idea in his little brain that he should learn and strive to become a doctor, engineer, pilot, army officer, etc. Moreover, though we ourselves are non-English, we are still clung
By I.A. Rehman WHILE the dastardly attempt to kill Malala has pricked the conscience of humankind it has also revealed the nature and extent of the cankerous growth within Pakistan’s body politic that is smothering reason. Those taking exception to sympathy for and solidarity with the courageous girl from Swat have confirmed that in their
