by Farahaz Ispahani Compounding the unspeakable personal tragedy that has befallen Pakistan, with one fifth of our country under water in the greatest floods in our history that have put almost five million people out of their homes, there are those within Pakistan and abroad who would seek to exploit this humanitarian disaster for political [...]
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Government Wins EU Trade Concessions
September 16th, 2010
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Government efforts to win trade concessions from the EU have paid off according to a report in today’s Dawn. “The European Council underlines its firm commitment to grant exclusively to Pakistan increased market access to the EU through the immediate and time-limited reduction of duties on key imports,” a statement by the 27 EU leaders [...]
Nawaz Sharif: Martial Law Not An Option
September 13th, 2010
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There is no possibility of imposition of another martial law in the country, rather corrupt people should be thrown out, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif said on Saturday. He said this while visiting Charsadda district where he was spending Eid with the flood affectees. Talking to the media, Nawaz said that failure of [...]
Video: Heart Song
September 9th, 2010
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A friend sent me a video today that brought tears to my eyes. It is a news interview with a Christian pastor and an Islamic cleric in America whose places of worship are next to each other. Rather than treat each other with suspicion and mistrust, they have reached out in the same way of [...]
The Zardari Pinata
September 7th, 2010
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Source: Pak Tea House By D. Ashgar Lately in many discussions, about various events which have unfolded in Pakistan, it appears that Pakistanis in or outside Pakistan, find only one person responsible, its President Asif Ali Zardari. To clarify, I reside in the US, have no affiliation with him or PPP. As a teenager, when I [...]
Don’t call me moderate, call me normal
September 1st, 2010
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Ed Husain, co-founder of the Quilliam Foundation, wrote the following essay that was published in the American newspaper Wall Street Journal. I am a moderate Muslim, yet I don’t like being termed a “moderate”—it somehow implies that I am less of a Muslim. We use the designation “moderate Islam” to differentiate it from “radical Islam.” [...]