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Reading a few articles exhorting people to donate to the Pakistan floods, I literally feel sick by the hateful and ignorant comments posted on the articles. A case in point is an article by Ethan Casey that appeared in the Huffington Post. The comments range from paranoid Pakistan-bashing (‘what unites Pakistanis is their hatred of [...]

It seems that Pakistan is beleaguered by one disaster or catastrophe after the other. This past week may have been the worst in our history. The Margalla plane crash, the worst floods ever leaving over 4.5 million affected, ethnic riots in Karachi and suicide bombing in Peshawar. Can it get any worse? I had been [...]

The humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in Pakistan is tragic at many levels. These are the worst floods in Pakistan’s history and have affected over 4.5 million people and taken over 1500 lives. And it’s not over yet. As the flood waters continue downstream to Sindh, they will cause more destruction in their wake. The images from NASA of before [...]

Hilary Clinton’s latest visit to Pakistan this week ended up in the reiteration of the same old messages and not-so-covert threats. The key message boils down to “we want more from Paksitan” and the warning this time being: “There is no doubt in anyone’s mind that should an attack against the United States be traced to be Pakistani it [...]

It’s become a trend in Pakistan that any musician who gets a decent amount of fame, then moves over to produce music in India. I watched Sajjad Ali’s interview some time back and he said that it was now close to impossible to remain profitable by just producing music in Pakistan. While this route may [...]

Choudhary Saab, a close friend of mine is visiting London for a couple of weeks. I must say that he has no association with the famous Choudhary bradaran, neither is Choudhary part of his name. It’s just that he is from Lahore and hence the name Choudhary Saaab. In return, I get to be ‘Khan [...]

Referring to Pakistan’s relations with India, he recalled being told in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, of a proverb which said that when two elephants fight the grass gets trampled. “I shudder to think if two elephants start making love the grass gets more trampled,” he said. (Pervez Musharraf quoted in the Guardian) This is [...]

The chief army spokesman, Major General Athar Abbas, denied that civilians were killed in the episode. The Pakistani military has never admitted to civilian casualties since it launched the current series of anti-Taliban offensives in April last year, with an operation in the Swat valley in the north-west of the country. – Guardian Of course [...]

  “Bazaars were decorated with colorful flags and artificial flowers and young men danced in jubilation. Slogans were raised in support of ANP and other parties for campaigning to rename the province”. – The News Many celebrated the much debated name change of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) to Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. Was it just lack of [...]