By Mikhail Gorbachev
Just a few weeks ago, the fate of the New Start nuclear arms treaty seemed to hang by a thread. But since last week, when the United States Senate ratified the treaty, which reduces the size of the American and Russian nuclear stockpiles, we can speak of a serious step forward for both countries.
By M Y Qaisrani
The super-flood which brought large scale humanitarian crisis and severely damaged the physical infrastructure worth hundreds of billions of rupees, has also brought home the thought that we should ponder over the possibilities of harnessing our rivers.
By Dr Ijaz Ahsan
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has recently said that “all incomes should be taxed” without discrimination. That everyone who earns has to pay their income tax.
By DR A.H. KHAYA
President Barack Obama has asked the Pakistan army to do more than what it has so far done. The army has been suffering casualties at a very big rate. But the rate is not acceptable to Obama. Logically, Obama should specify the exact rate which would satisfy him.
By Saroop Ijaz
“There is one custom amongst these people which is wholly shameful: every woman who is native of the country must once in her life go and sit in the temple of Mylitta and there give herself to a strange man….Once a woman has taken her seat, she is not allowed to go home until a man has thrown her a silver coin into her lap and taken her outside to lie with her.
By Musa Khan Jalalzai
Many intellectuals in the UK are of the opinion that the US should have adopted a multi-faceted and multi-dimensional war strategy to counter the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan.
By Jamal Hussain
Discussion on religious issues is never easy. Beliefs are well entrenched and, in most cases, leave little room for the accommodation of differing points of views.
Posted in Articles, Muslim World, Opinions from Pakistan
By Zafar Hilaly
A few days ago, the New York Times (NYT) published a story suggesting that the US had lost patience with Pakistan’s dilly-dallying on the North Waziristan operation and was preparing to undertake cross-border operations against the Haqqani Taliban sheltering in Pakistan.
By Harris Khalique
Lies, damn lies and statistics. It was Voltaire I believe who once defined the degrees of falsehood. But this is also said that something you can’t measure, you can’t manage either.
By Shafqat Mahmood
Time passes. More quickly as the years roll by. For the optimists, hope springs eternal that the best is yet to come. For the depressive, it is all over.
