McCain in Kashmir! Why

The underlying message was clear. Resolve Kashmir

PUNCHLINE By Z. G. Muhammad

‘Senator John McCain arrives on a two day visit to Kashmir’. The news about the visit of the Republican candidate for 2008 presidential election to the strategically located state of Jammu and Kashmir that is seen by many observers as a   emerging playground for Asian powers would have  More
Wonders of bribery

In response to Dr. Aijaz Baba’s column Salt 'n Pepper

FEEDBACK By Basim Amin Bazaz

I read Dr. Aijaz A Baba`s piece, ‘A-Pious-Lot-Indeed’; a wonderfully written story, painfully true as well. I have a story to share as well; similar in many ways, but totally different at the same time.A heart rending tale; that is what almost every file stuck in a government department is linked More
Bond of Love

Let this day make us come closer

MINDSCAPE BY S.SARWAR

 Dara wa sikander say woh mard e faqeer oola Ho jis ki faqeeri main booye Assad ullahi    Mayray liye hai faqat zoor e Haideri kafi    Teray naseeb flatoon ki teiz e idraak (Allama Iqbal)  Ramadhan 21, inside the mosque, the brutal murder More
I apologize for pelting stones

…and my crime is not unpardonable

ADMISSION By Muhammad Saleem

It seems very humane, tender, merciful conduct of authorities towards a smuggler who wrote a letter of apology; so that he evades PSA…it is interesting to see that someone making a public apology in this part of the world. Writing a public apology needs courage, bravery, that spirit of boldness, to accept More
  • Kashmir

17 fall ill after inhaling ‘toxic gas’ in Baramulla

ALTAF BABA

Baramulla, Aug 21: At least 17 people fell ill after inhaling ‘toxic gas’ emanating from a cylinder kept in a scrap dealers shop at Jhelum market in Baramulla town on Sunday.The affected persons, who complained More


  • Srinagar City

GOVT ‘SELLS’ DALGATE-BATAMALOO FOOTPATH NARROWING AS ROAD WIDENING

No commercial structure bottlenecks to be removed from busy City centre road

M HYDERI

Srinagar, Aug 21: The much hyped Dalgate-Batamaloo “road widening” seems to be more of a dream sold to people than a development that can ease traffic congestion in the City centre. And reasons to this More



  • Jammu

Bureaucratic interference’ derails traffic lights installation project

SUMIT HAKHOO

Jammu, Aug 21: The fate of much hyped plan to install traffic lights in Jammu city still hangs in balance as ‘bureaucratic interference’ has almost led to derailment of the proposed project envisaged to More


  • South Asia

Pak govt faces pressure to call Army in Karachi

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Karachi, Aug 21: With violence continuing unabated in Karachi, pressure is mounting on the ruling PPP to call in the military's assistance for restoring law and order in the troubled city, that  is More


  • World

Iran, Saudi Arabia helped carry out 9/11 attacks: Book

London, Aug 21: Iran and Saudi Arabia helped Al Qaeda carry out the 9/11 attacks, a book claims. "The Eleventh Day", authored by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan, produces a compelling argument that More


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