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Helen Thomas , the 89-year-old grande dame of the White House Press Corps, has resigned from her long-time job with the Hearst Newspapers ...

In the face of massive public demand (well, two flattering comments on Cafe Pyala and some faint, barely audible praise overheard at a part...

... Here's PML(N) spokesperson, Senator Pervaiz Rasheed , explaining a few things while accusing former Punjab Chief Minister and PML (...

The approaching cyclone in Karachi has got its residents in a state of dreaded anticipation and nervous excitement. To be sure, if the '...

So, after suffering the ignominy of being relegated from a daily show to a thrice-a-week show over the weekend , windbag Dr. S&M has fi...

Take a look at how Daw n and The News have covered yesterday's proceedings in the Supreme Court , hearing the challenges to the 18th C...

Actually, from Tuesday, June 1st editorial in The News  titled "Facebook fracas": "Hurting religious feeling is always unf...

Just in case you were in any doubt about the wellsprings of anti-Ahmadi hate that fueled last Friday's terrorist attacks, here are a cou...

There's a bunch of stuff that's we've been meaning to blog about which has been held back because of the outrage in Lahore - it ...

A policeman carries a wounded victim in Garhi Shahu Lahore (source: AFP) I have to admit that all I really wanted to say or post today was...

Okay so I was browsing around, and quite by accident came across this weirdly named Pakistani blog titled Alaiwah! which seems to specialize...

You know, maybe there needs to be a whole new category of reporting. Yesterday morning I had posted something about the effects of heat on S...

This has to be the funniest massacre of the English language by a Pakistani media organization. Unfortunately, it doesn't quite qualify ...

I have been meaning to do this post for a while now but have simply not got round to it thanks to all the other storms in a tea cup that pla...

How cretinous can we be? The Lahore High Court has ordered the P akistan Telecommunication Authority to block Facebook in Pakistan beca...

Five Rupees recently had a post about how Diplomacy Is Weird , basically because diplomatic double-speak is the engine international relati...

I don't usually post stuff about internal US politics - seriously, I don't care either way - but this had me laughing so hard, I re...

This story was posted earlier but some inexplicable issues with how the blog was viewable in Internet Explorer and Google Chrome has forced ...

Had the real-life DawnNews saga been a prime-time soap opera on that troubled channel, its ratings would at least have registered some mil...