We hear everyday by the media of Musharaf’s coalition partners that Pakistan is a terrorist state. Moreover, we were told that we would be sent back to the Stone Age at the time of Afghan war post 9/11. Nevertheless, we are warned by Uncle Sam day after day to sort things out or else they […]

Thank you Again Sirs July 21, 2008
Prime Minister of Pakistan
President Of Pakistan
Co-Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party
Federal Finance Minister
Federal Trade Minister
Chairman O.G.R.A. 
Dear Sirs
We as a nation are great full to you for providing us an opportunity to thank you again in the same month of July, due to your act of kindness on Sunday the […]

Source: ALE-Xpressed
Wrong guess. It’s not about Cuckoo’s – continue reading!

I have this bad habit of roaming around the city with friends on the weekends and like all Lahoris, dining out in the end with no good entertainment options available. Being fed up of the exquisite restaurants, all stereo-typed to the same M.M.Alam road restaurants; I […]

 
O ALLAH, OUR MIGHTY LORD,
FORGIVE US AS WE COME ONWARD,
BLESS US AS WE COME FORTH,
TOWARDS YOU OUR LORD,
TO YOU, SO WE BUILD OUR FAITH STRONG.
MAKE US AS PURE AS THE DAY WE CAME INTO THIS WORLD.
FORGIVE US FOR OUR BLUNDERS,
FORGIVE US FOR OUR SINS,
BLESS US BY REBUILDING OUR SOULS,
MAKE US LIKE THE DAY WE WERE,
THE […]

I am extremely pissed-off after reading an article published in The Guardian by Declan Walsh today!
You would be too… at the insensitivity… the height of illiteracy… at such preposterous traditions that, for centuries, have marred the lives of so many… women and young girls in particular!
When will we evolve and shed off these inhuman, man-made […]

Source: New Kerala.com
By Manish Chand
 Statuettes of Shiva-Parvati and the Buddha jostle for space with paintings of pensive prostitutes in the eclectic studio of maverick painter Iqbal Hussain housed in Coocoo’s Den, the famous restaurant founded by him in the heart of Lahore’s red light district.
“I am an outsider. I paint what I see. I don’t […]

I read a book recently and a lot of what was written - even though fiction - seemed to be true for Pakistan. The book showed how people from a democratic country, who had gone through a major man-made calamity, grabbed onto the idea of a kingdom in hopes of finding a better leader.
In terms […]

Source: All Things Pakistan
Adil Najam

I must confess that the goriness of my last post still leaves me drained and shaken. I offer this picture post on the simpler pleasures of life in Pakistan, partly as a way of shaking myself off the shivers but much more as a way to highlight that not only is […]

Source: Khaleej Times
By Mohammed Rizwan
In the face of tough opposition by religious hardliners, the management of Punjab University, a 130-year old 25,000-student institution, is struggling to maintain its writ on campus.
The university started a discipline in music, but in the face of stiff opposition, the classes of this department can’t be held on the […]

The Robert L. Capp collection at the Hoover Institution Archives contains ten never-before-published photographs illustrating the immediate aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing. These photographs, taken by an unknown Japanese photographer, were found in 1945 among rolls of undeveloped film in a cave outside Hiroshima by U.S. serviceman Robert L. Capp, who was attached to the […]

Report published on Jalib Day organised by the South Asian Peoples Forum UK - By Daily Jang London dated 30 April 2008.  Posted By: Pervez Fateh (South Asian Peoples Forum UK) - info@sapfonline.org

In Memoriam HABIB JALIB

The great revolutionary Urdu poet of South Asia

Report & picture of activists - Daily Jang London 29 April 2008

Posted By: Pervez Fateh (South Asian Peoples Forum UK) - info@sapfonline.org

For a Nation every Individual is the star in the galaxy of its destiny. The story of Pakistan is the story of ambitious generals who are denying the people of their rights; therefore, today’s Pakistan is a baby who is deprived of mother’s milk. At the age of sixty, it should been as strong as a […]

‘Patience is a virtue’ is an idiom which you hear when you are in class 2, but tolerance levels go down when you jump into the pratical and materialistic world. Hit the road, you find people acting like ”Beatles” by performing ‘live stunt shows’ on the roads so that they reach their destination faster at the cost […]

Source: The Economic Times
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan government plans to set up the “Gurdwara Panja Sahib International University” at Hasanabdal to promote inter-faith peace and harmony, Education Minister Ahsan Iqbal said today.
Addressing a gathering of Sikh pilgrims at Gurdwara Panja Sahib in Hasanabdal town, Ahsan, who has additional charge of minorities affairs, said the new government […]

Source: The earth times
India has decided to settle a six-decade-old dispute with Pakistan over a royal legacy of more than 25 million pounds lying frozen in a London bank, news reports said Saturday. When the British rulers left India in 1947, more than 100 principalities were still ruled by princes who were given the choice […]

Source: Los Angeles Times
LAHORE, Pakistan — A festival that draws thousands to Pakistan’s cultural capital to usher in spring by flying colorful kites has fallen victim to the country’s violence and political turmoil.
Lahore’s annual Basant celebration usually occurs over a weekend in February or March. But this year, spring came with no sign of the […]

Source: Thaindian
By Muhammad Najeeb
Hasanabdal (Pakistan), April 12 (IANS) More than 20,000 Sikh pilgrims from all over the world, including India, have started arriving at Panja Sahib in Hasanabdal, some 60 km from Islamabad, to celebrate the annual Baisakhi Mela (spring festival). Panja Sahib attracts thousands of Sikh devotees from all over the world every year […]

Source: Dawn
By Beenisch Kanaria
TUCKED away in Sector F-6, surrounded by a serene residential setting, beside a snug children’s park, lays a small yet very distinct market. Reminiscent of a European high street, this market is one of Islamabad’s dearest and oldest shopping vicinity.This little slice of Europe is Kohsar Market.Kohsar Market has always been immaculately […]

Source: Daily Mail
She loved Punch & Judy and Enid Blyton, but her parents came from Pakistan and her mother wore a sari. In an enchanting yet painfully honest new book, acclaimed TV journalist Yasmin Hai describes her childhood battle to ‘learn to be English’ - as her devoted father wanted - and the price she […]

Source: Daily Times
Staff Report
PESHAWAR: Pakistan Day was celebrated issued on Sunday with national fervour and enthusiasm in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and cantonment areas in the province.
According to an Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) press release, tribesmen from all walks of life joined the Pakistan Army, Frontier Corps, and the Political Administration (PA) […]

Source: Daily Times
* Around 101 students attend cultural exchange programme
By Saadia Khalid
ISLAMABAD: Turkish ambassador to Pakistan Engin Soysal on Thursday called for strong cultural relations between Pakistan and Turkey to make their youth aware of the heritage and civilisation of both countries.
Addressing the participants of a cultural exchange programme, he said, “Pakistan and Turkey […]

Source: Daily Times
By Ali Usman
LAHORE: A paradoxical thing about Lahore that fascinates visitors is that it has an identity of its own, despite having a great heritage of colonial architecture, said US scholar Carla Rae Petievich.
Talking to Daily Times Carla said Lahore was an interesting city that was in a state of flux. She said […]

The silent majority is by definition silent, and therefore generally unable to exercise rights as bestowed to them by the constitution. Well, being a Pakistani, I dont even know what the hell our constitution says …yes, had to memorize the consititution(s!) in Pak studies but the majority Pakistanis still do not know what it stands […]