Women with Cute Figures Being Repeatedly Body Scanned in America

A CBS News affiliate interviewed Dallas resident Ellen Terrell about her claims that she was targeted for full-body screening at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport because of her looks. Terrell says she was asked three times to have her body scanned, allowing TSA officials in a separate room to review the images displayed. It’s against TSA policy to [...]

Sex sells on the Pakistani Media. Sensational stories on sex crimes sell even better.

Sex sells. Sensational stories on sex crimes sell even better. And in the gang-rape case of Uzma Ayub, the Pakistani media seems to have truly set up shop. The 17-year-old victim has been hounded by journalists from her house to her hospital bed, narrating her experiences of abduction and gang-rape to reporters and millions of [...]

Pakistan Helpless at the Hand of the Taliban Kidnappers

by Declan Walsh/ NYT A campaign of high-profile kidnappings has provided the Pakistani Taliban and its allies with new resources, arming insurgents with millions of dollars, threatening foreign aid programs and galvanizing a sophisticated network of jihadi and criminal gangs whose reach spans the country. Wealthy industrialists, academics, Western aid workers and relatives of military [...]

Pakistan Cannot Progress with Siphae Sahaba Given a Free Hand

Sipahe Sahab Pakistan(SSP, currently camouflaged as Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat ASWJ) is a banned extremist organization. Comprising radicalised Jihadi-sectarian assets of Pakistan army, the SSP-SWJ represents a tiny minority of the Deobandi sub-sect of Sunni Islam, and per se does not represent the majority of Sunni Barelvi, Deobandi or Salafi Muslims. Sunni Muslims inPakistanare divided [...]

www.hopechain.com: Sharing Patients’ Experiences

A US-based doctor, attending physician of the Franciscan Health System (department of medicine), today launched a website to provide assistance to patients. The website ~ www.hopechain.com ~ is a networking site where a patient can help another by sharing his own experience. A patient can interact with others from all over the world who are [...]

Punishment for Drunken Driving Proposed in Delhi

  To discourage drunk driving, the Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has proposed stringent regulations which include a compulsory jail term for offenders.   In other words, it will now be a crime if drivers are found drunk while driving. Hundreds of ac­­c­id­ents related to alcohol-imp­aired driving, some of them fatal, occur each [...]

Why India No Longer Winning the Beauty Pageants?

“Why is India on a losing streak?  Aren’t we pretty anymore?” was the plaintive cry of the very presentable anchor of an English language news channel during a news discussion recently. She was not referring to cricket, quite obviously. Her concern was about the drought of Miss World and Miss Universe crowns for Indian women [...]

Flying in PIA Plane’s Toilet

The plane was full but the toilet wasn’t. So, throwing all rules and caution to the wind, a PIA captain blithely decided to accommodate two passengers in the toilet of the Lahore-Karachi flight instead. The incident took place on a flight fromLahoretoKarachidue to non-availability of seats, Geo News reported, adding tongue in cheek that the [...]

Excerpts of the Indian SC Decision on 2G Scam

Excerpts from the concluding paragraphs of the Supreme Court’s verdict cancelling 122 2G licences issued during A. Raja’s term as Minister of Communications and Information Technology. 69. …There is a fundamental flaw in the principle of first-come-first-served inasmuch as it involves an element of pure chance or accident. In matters involving award of contracts or grant [...]

Imran Khan’s PTI Hacked

PTI’s more than 30 fan pages were hacked today in a single go, costing the political party millions of fans go wasted. No one has taken the responsibility for this massive hack down of PTI’s facebook fan pages. President of the Insaf Students Federation in Karachi, Arsalan Ghumman, reported that the official Facebook pages of [...]