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So, most of our readers have probably already heard about the advertisement that the Government of Pakistan took out in the Wall Street J...

For the last five or six days I had been contemplating how best to present the information contained on a website that someone had stumbled ...

Without further ado... [ Update 1: The above video may not play because it has been pulled from Youtube by Geo . In that case you can wa...

Consider the following lines from an AP  distributed article published in Dawn today: "With... government all but paralysed by scan...

On Geo 's Aapas Ki Baat show today, Najam Sethi referred to an interview that Imran Khan gave a few days ago and expressed incredulit...

The recent spate of violence, mayhem and bloodletting in Karachi has drawn a number of responses, ranging from the outraged to the resigne...

I have been musing a little bit about belief, especially after a couple of outraged comments on the previous post about the absurdity of the...

Stung by intense criticism of the cretinism of Pakistan's maulvis and their perennial inability to reconcile even the basic concepts of...

The following information has been posted by one Mekaal Hassan on the journalists' mailing group PressPakistan . We cannot verify it bu...

More than one commentator has ascribed the relative dearth of recent posts on this blog to our having taken the easy way out (as others befo...

Some of you may have seen the following ad, which featured prominently in the pages of The Daily Times ' Sunday magazine and the Expre...

I guess I should offer some explanation about why the blog has been dormant for so long. Frankly, I can only speak for myself and you can pu...

In the preface to his book Inside Al Qaeda And The Taliban: Beyond Bin Laden and 9/11 , the late Syed Saleem Shahzad wrote: “I have never...

TED is an acronym for Technology, Entertainment, Design. According to its web home : "TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Sprea...