Editorial: General Beg’s mess: Ex-army chief General Aslam Beg (Retd) gets bogged down in damning facts whenever he tries to fend off criticism of his past misdeeds. In the latest attack launched by an ex-ISI officer Brigadier Imtiaz Ahmad Billa (Retd), his tenure

Editorial: General Beg’s mess: Ex-army chief General Aslam Beg (Retd) gets bogged down in damning facts whenever he tries to fend off criticism of his past misdeeds. In the latest attack launched by an ex-ISI officer Brigadier Imtiaz Ahmad Billa (Retd), his tenure

Editorial: Revisiting Mehrangate: hating the PPP: The national media is revisiting Mehrangate, involving bribes paid by the ISI under the then army chief, General Aslam Beg, in 1990 for the creation of the Islami Jamhoori Ittehad (IJI) to foreclose the possibility of the PPP again

Editorial: Revisiting Mehrangate: hating the PPP: The national media is revisiting Mehrangate, involving bribes paid by the ISI under the then army chief, General Aslam Beg, in 1990 for the creation of the Islami Jamhoori Ittehad (IJI) to foreclose the possibility of the PPP again

Editorial: Deadly Tehreek-e-Taliban Punjab: After the capture of some key Taliban members in the aftermath of Baitullah Mehsud’s death, security agencies have been able to make unprecedented discoveries. The latest is the arrest of seven terrorists in Sargodha, including a person identified as

Editorial: Deadly Tehreek-e-Taliban Punjab: After the capture of some key Taliban members in the aftermath of Baitullah Mehsud’s death, security agencies have been able to make unprecedented discoveries. The latest is the arrest of seven terrorists in Sargodha, including a person identified as

A proposal Saudis can’t refuse: Conservative Saudis are increasingly availing misyar, a no-strings marriage of convenience focused primarily on sexual relations, said a report in the UK daily Guardian.Misyar allows couples to live separately but come together for sexual relations and for women who

No end in sight: Editorial A representative from Jhang has told the National Assembly that the banned Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) is active

Threat from Jhang: Editorial While the champions of Seraikistan and politicians of North Punjab jointly disavow any decline of South Punjab into a stronghold of religious terrorists, our National Assembly has echoed with warnings about the persistence in Jhang of the dominance

In defence of reason: Nadeem F. Paracha Last week I was interviewed for a documentary on ‘Conspiracy Theorists,’ produced by DawnNews. The format of the program required two people talking about a chosen topic – a thesis/anti-thesis arrangement. The other person on the

Gojra and education: Zubeida Mustafa TALKING to a Dawn panel several years ago, Asghar Ali Engineer, head of the Centre for Study of Society and Secularism, Mumbai, had commented that every communal riot in India that he had investigated was found to

A true story from Gojra: Nosheen Abbas Wide eyed, and alert, Javed and Irfaan, two brothers, step in to the house. They sit close to each other, almost in a huddle. Both look slightly anxious not knowing what to expect from our conversation, but

LJ mastermind accused of 70 murders set to go free: KARACHI: Malik Ishaq, one of the founders of the outlawed militant organisation Lashkar-i-Jhangvi, could be released on bail early next month despite a police record of at least 70 murders, according to a report in the New York Times.

Christians’ homes burnt over ‘desecration’: A burnt house of a Christian family in Azafi Abadi at Chak 95-JB on Gojra-Faisalabad Road. –Photo by White Star By Tariq Saeed Saturday, 01 Aug, 2009 TOBA TEK SINGH: A mob burnt 75 houses of Christians over the

Christians’ homes burnt over ‘desecration’: A burnt house of a Christian family in Azafi Abadi at Chak 95-JB on Gojra-Faisalabad Road. –Photo by White Star By Tariq Saeed Saturday, 01 Aug, 2009 TOBA TEK SINGH: A mob burnt 75 houses of Christians over the

Punjab Law Minister’s foot in his mouth: Immediately after the Lahore blast on 27 May, Rana Sana, the Punjabi Law Minister went hysterical with the typical Pakistani conspiracy theory: It is India who is behind every mischief in Pakistan. On every channel he was harping on

Taliban’s hypocrisy is in fact Pakistan’s national trait – by Omar Khattab: Muslim Khan, the spokesman of Pakistani Taliban, has won unprecedented notoriety for justifying beheading, flogging, and digging up and hanging the dead. He has a personal stake in propagating the kind of education Muslims of the world must have.

Taliban’s hypocrisy is in fact Pakistan’s national trait: Muslim Khan, the spokesman of Pakistani Taliban, has won unprecedented notoriety for justifying beheading, flogging, and digging up and hanging the dead. He has a personal stake in propagating the kind of education Muslims of the world must have.

Do the Swatis exist?: Only till two weeks before, Pakistan’s overwhelmingly right wing media, the traditionally left leaning Awami National Party (ANP), the born again Islamists like Imran Khan, right of the centre Nawaz League, and the centrist Zardari People’s Party were applauding

Clerks of Punjab, sell your children! – by Omar Khattab: The Punjab government had decided to sack thousands of clerks who have been working on contract basis for the past nineteen years. Other than the office boys, the clerks are at the lowest ladder of government jobs, and it

Abbas Zaidi: Clerks of Punjab, sell your children!: The Punjab government had decided to sack thousands of clerks who have been working on contract basis for the past nineteen years. Other than the office boys, the clerks are at the lowest ladder of government jobs, and it