Freedom to offend

Grant it to all and imagine the horror

WRITE HAND BY AJAZ UL HAQUE

How much freedom can one really enjoy? The very debate of freedom has gone in different directions with everyone with his own way to define it, own way to interpret it. Political and social freedoms apart, the question of concern these days is artistic or literary freedom. There is no limit and More

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J&K disaster management policy

Some technical and conceptual flaws in the policy need re-thinking

Dateline SRINAGAR By Arjimand Hussain Talib

A policy to manage natural and man-made disasters for J&K was long overdue. The State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA) approval to such draft policy last week is a welcome move. A cursory reading through the draft policy raises many questions related to its conceptual clarity and technicalities More

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False theme song

Freeze FRAME By Syeda Afshana

‘If life can have a theme song—and I believe that every worthwhile one has—mine is best expressed in one word: Individualism’.This is Ayn Rand speaking. Known as the 20th century’s most controversial novelist-philosophers, she was born to a Jewish family in 1905 czarist Russia. In her autobiographical More

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Fuel From Waters

Nostalgia By Z.G.M

It was not a season of ‘mists’ for us but of ‘mellow fruitfulness. For me, my siblings and friends as the poet has said, autumn used to be ‘season of ripeness to the core’. The pomegranate   orchards bowing in obeisance enticed all children as its scarlet red flowers attracted us in summers More

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Lessons from the Recent Stalemate

The system put in place has to be efficient to allow an unhindered business

CROSS LOC TRADE By Nisar Ahmed Thakur

On Jan 4, 2012 Cross LoC trade was resumed after several weeks of suspension. The recent impasse in the Cross LoC-trade was witnessed when Central Bureau of Revenue (CBR) officials swung into action and seized over a dozen goods-laden trucks in November 2011. The Customs department and FBR officials More

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