Australian Captain Declares to Show Respect to Bradman

Aussie skipper Clarke declared when he was 329, probably 4 or 5 runs short of breaking Bradman’s record as highest Aussie scorer. He declared. This is called respect. Isn’t it great to know that in this age, some folks still have this quality!

1911 Versus 2011

Here are some statistics for the Year 1911: The average life expectancy for men was 47 years. Fuel for this car was sold in drug stores only. Only 14 percent of the homes had a bathtub. Only 8 percent of the home s had a telephone. There were only 8,000 cars and only 144 miles [...]

Animal Slaughtering & Holocaust: Charles Patterson

An American professor, Charles Patterson in his book Eternal Treblinka has compared the abuse of animals with the Holocaust. The industrialized assembly-line for slaughtering animals, according to him, provided the model, in several important ways, for the slaughtering of humans in the Holocaust. Many victims of the Holocaust saw the horror and became determined to work to prevent [...]

Zulfiqar Mirza is an Evil Man Spreading Ethnic Hatred

The whole of Pakistan knows that MQM does not consist of angels and that Altaf Husain is not an innocent bystander. However, neither is Zulfiqar Mirza. He may be involved in as many murders as Altaf Husain if not more and may even be involved in more heinous crimes like womanzing, sponsoring mujrahs, drug trafficking, [...]

Pakistan Set to Export Murree Brewery Beer Now

Pakistanis an Islamic republic where alcohol is forbidden to 97 per cent of the population and drinkers can face 80 lashes of the whip under holy law – but in a move set to anger religious conservatives, Pakistanis poised to become an exporter of beer. An official in the Ministry of Commerce in Islamabad has [...]

Army Looking at Imran Khan as a Viable Alternative

Pakistan’s civilian government, led by the Pakistan People’s Party, has long been an irritant to the country’s generals. President Asif Ali Zardari runs a corrupt and inept administration and has been far too willing to cozy up to Washington. Husain Haqqani, until November 2011, was Pakistan’s controversial envoy to the United States. He has been [...]

KESC Privatization Responsible for the Present Power Shortage Mess in Karachi

Power crisis in Karachi — an offshoot of privatization by Lateef Mughal It is a fact that uninterrupted supply of electricity is the responsibility of a power utility, mostly owned by the governments across the world, but unfortunately in 2005 the Musharraf government handed over the management of one of the major institutions of the [...]

How Can Anyone Get Better Than Manto?

The US interest in Sadat Hasan Manto, the famous writer, has a background. Manto once ridiculed theUSSR. This invoked US interest in Manto. The Americans must have thought they could recruit Manto on their side in the cultural Cold War. It all took place in 1951. TheUnited States, in a bid to increase its influence [...]

Rights Suffer Under Army Power Grab

Upsurge in Attacks on Civilians, Torture, Targeted Killings Pakistan’s fledgling democratic government, under increasing pressure from the military, appeased extremist groups, ignored army abuses, and failed to hold those responsible for serious abuses accountable in 2011, Human Rights Watch said Jan 23, 2012 in its World Report 2012. Targeted killings and other attacks on civilians [...]