Monthly Archives: May 2011

Have Your Say: Shameless Major

IFTIKHAR SHAHEEN MIRZA

This is apropos news item that a Major misbehaved with a lady lecturer and called police for her arrest.

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Have Your Say: Yesterday and Today

Anwar Parveen, Islamabad

A TV anchor the other day in his talk show gave reference of President Ayub’s visit to US in 1961. Some video clips were also shown. Continue reading

Have Your Say: The father of a Shaheed son

Col (retd) Muhammad Shahbaz, Sheikhupura

These are the words of a father of a soldier who was martyred recently while fighting the militants: “My son was martyred yesterday. I do not cry in his remembrance but rather I cry because he died for a cause that no one appreciates.

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Pakistan Journalist Vanishes: Is the ISI Involved?

By Omar Waraich

Fears are growing for the safety of a well-known Pakistani journalist who has been missing for 39 hours now and, according to an international advocacy group, is believed to be in the Continue reading

Have Your Say: Budget Blues

IFTIKHAR SHAHEEN MIRZA

An outline of budget 2011-12 has been published in press. As Published by Dawn, the government has finalized a consolidated budget of Rs.3.854 trillion for the budget year ensuing from July 2011, envisaging revenue of Rs. 2.787 trillion, fiscal deficit of Rs.912 billion and provincial transfers of Rs.224 trillion.

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Mehran, through the glass darkly

By Tanvir Ahmad Khan

Within three weeks, Pakistan has been tested twice and found wanting: On May 2, by the most powerful military in history and then on May 22, by a small unit of commandos, made up of non-state actors, challenging the state of Pakistan. Continue reading

Minding relations with Iran

By Zafar Hilaly

One lie which changed our world was that the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (1979) resurrected the old czarist ambition to extend Russian domination to the warm waters of the Indian Ocean. Continue reading

What kind of Pakistan do we want?

By Rasul Bakhsh Rais

Two American visitors in recent weeks, Senator John Kerry and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, have made very bold and appropriate remarks, about what kind of state and society Pakistanis would like to have. Senator Kerry was direct in his comments, by posing the question of whether we wanted Pakistan according to the vision of its founder, MA Jinnah, or some other direction.

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Rise of ‘missing girls’ in India and China

By the Monitor’s Editorial Board

Of all the world’s major ills – such as war, hunger, and natural disasters – none can quite compare to the millions of baby girls and female fetuses killed by parents who prefer boys.

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Are Palestinian children less worthy?

Joseph Massad

What is it about Jewish and Arab children that privileges the first and spurns the second in the speeches of President Barack Obama, let alone in the Western media more generally? Are Jewish children smarter, prettier, whiter? Continue reading