Pakistani Blogs

The conclusion of the military operations in Bajaur Agency marks the ach-ievement of yet another milestone by the armed forces of Pakistan, as indeed the entire nation, in their struggle against hydra-headed menace of extremism. The declaration that soon a similar offensive would be launched in Orakzai Agency indicates our national resolve to continue the effort to extract effected areas from ...

Everyone in Pakistan and we in USA are glued to Geo Super and watching domestic RBS T20 cup  and after some very very perplexing round matches which were beyond my comprehension, Faisalabad Wolves led by Misbah ul Haq and Sialkot Stallions led by Shoaib Malik are in the finals. Let me appreciate the domestic tournament committee led by some wizard in PCB who decided to hold the tournament ...

“The News” has gone into overdrive these days. Anonymous sources confided “The News” that Ambassador Haqqani’s contract is going to expire in May and reports speak of Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir being posted to Washington to replace Haqqani. This big and false rumor to begin to agitate again, I surmise. If you go through this story, you feel doubt about credibility of this report. There ...

Traffic signs identification and their meanings plus the road sense should have been developed in us as part of the school training. Unfortunately serious attention is not given to this particular area. Special awareness programs should be developed for the rural areas in order to educate the people to minimize the life loss and accidents ratio due to ignoring of traffic rules.

Forgive an outsider and staunch atheist like myself who, on reading the recent French press comments relating to Ilhem Moussaid the hijab-wearing NPA candidate in Avignon, gets the impression that something is rotten in  French political culture. Let’s take the debate at face-value. A young  Muslim woman joins the NPA [New Anti-Capitalist Party]. She obviously agrees with its program that ...

As I spent a few days with a friend of mine in a local government hospital, I was very alarmed to see the number of breast cancer patients enrolled every day. Breast cancer is the most dangerous kind of cancer which is solely responsible for the death of 41,116 women annually in the US only.  In Pakistan, it is estimated that over 40,000 women are killed by breast cancer every year.  There are ...

Just go to any market or roadside in any major city or town of the country, and a common spectacle is a women doing shopping or window shopping. Many of these groups include a very sharp contrast. More often than not, the older women who are mothers or grand mothers remain clad in burqa or long rida, and they are accompanied by daughters or grand daughters clad in jeans or T Shirt or both, ...