Osama is dead on May 4, 2011May 2 was a day of great celebrations as American troops, after a long search of 10 years, finally tracked down and destroyed the very face of al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden. It was not only a cause of celebration for the US but many other countries around the world, which became victims of al […]
Time to wake up! on February 17, 2011The great philosopher Socrates once said, “I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.” If only mankind could understand and embrace this message of wisdom, the world would be a much better place. February 4, 2011 was a sad day, when a group of fanatics attacked a Shia procession […]
Three faces of love on January 13, 2011Farzana Ahmad is a short story writer who is routinely published in leading Urdu periodicals. She is the wife of Feza Aazmi, a writer, social and political analyst, lawyer, journalist and poet of great repute. He emerged as the founder of a new genre of poetry, i.e. a series of book-length poems on major national […]
The war is not over on January 5, 2011The governor of Punjab, Salmaan Taseer, was assassinated on January 4, 2011 in Islamabad. He was shot 27 bullets by one of his elite security force guards. The murderer surrendered to the police and told them that he had killed him because he termed the blasphemy laws as ‘black laws’. So, basically, Salmaan Taseer lost […]