Pakistani Blogs

In the many months since the 2008 presidential election, an increasing number of those within the African-American community have begun to question whether the electing of the United States first African-American President, Barack Obama, has functioned to yield any significant results in regard to remedying the abject condition of many of the group’s members.

An article written by SELIG S. HARRISON, a renowned US based journalist, published in New York Times is making rounds in the blogosphere, attracting attention at the global level. In the article titled “China’s Discreet Hold on Pakistan’s Northern Borderlands”, the writer argues that the government of Pakistan has handed over Gilgit – Baltistan to China, by allowing “thousands of soldiers of ...

Nationwide celebrations marked the loading of nuclear fuel rods at Bushehr Nuclear power facility. In a remarkable demonstration of Iranian commitment towards non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, President Ahmadinejad reiterated a day before the loading of nuclear fuel that Tehran was ready to resume negotiations, on nuclear issues, with the six major powers that is five permanent Security ...

I would have ignore it if Sialkot incidence stand alone in the current history of Pakistan but unfortunately it’s the cluster; killing of Pakistani’s in a bus on Punjabi ethnic basis, target killing in Karachi on regional politics basis, evacuation of non-Balouchi settlers in Quetta and if we go back in time burning a suspect thief alive in Karachi, the list goes on and on.

Thirty years ago if someone had asked you where you are from, and if you had said Pakistan,  the 2nd likely question to you would have been where is that? It is also likely you would have replied Pakistan is next to India, in south Asia etc. There is absolutely no need for that anymore. Recently, I was reading that Indian call workers when explaining to their western, mainly American ...

I can’t remember when I last listened about a brave decision taken by Zardari and co. since 2008 takeover.  All we listen these days is about transfer of power to Washington and bows to Obama. The latest is, quite ridiculously, the Pak-Afghan agreement.

This article will present analysis of flood which caused 1589 causalities left 2344 injured and 1,236,256 private house destruction.  The main emphasis would be at effective flood risk management measures to reduce flood damages.

There is no doubt that since the date TTP started with its subversive activities in Pakistan; the other religious and under surface militant groups also picked up their memento and with a short period of time; the extremism has engulfed the entire country. There is a wide spread lawlessness and chaos all over.

Indus river, originating in the Tibetan plateau in the vicinity of Lake Mansarovar in Tibet Autonomous Region, the river runs a course through the Ladakh district of Jammu and Kashmir and then enters Northern Areas Gilgit-Baltistan, flowing through the North in a southerly direction along the entire length of the country, to merge into the Arabian Sea near port city of Karachi in Sindh. The ...

Ongoing waves of overwhelming floods are an equivalent of economic and environmental WMD. These water bombs have caused tremendous devastation all across Pakistan. Rivers and creeks overflowed, inundating the large chunks of land in Gilgit-Baltistan, Kashmir, Khyber-Pakhtunkhaw, swamping villages and towns in Punjab, Sindh and Baluchistan. It is indeed a national tragedy, both magnitude as ...