Opinion

New US ‘war on terror’ chancy for China

By admin at 14 January, 2010, 6:41 am

GT: Will US President Barack Obama repeat the mistakes of former President George W. Bush?
Yu Wanli
Yu: The Obama administration is trying to make some changes and dissociate itself from Bush. In his speech at Cairo last year, Obama expressed these wishes, but did not come up with substantive initiatives. Reality does not match his feelings, [...]

Online democracy pushing forward real reform

By admin at 14 January, 2010, 6:38 am

PO: What were the key characteristics of Internet events in 2009?

Xie: Netizens and the Internet media economy both matured. The focus of Internet discussion of social issues has shifted from examining isolated cases to an in-depth concern with institutional issues, and from the

Who’s afraid of Justice Ramday?

By admin at 14 January, 2010, 2:33 am

Wednesday, January 20, 2010 Anjum Niaz
The writer is a freelance journalist with over twenty years of experience in national and [...]

Rule of law

By admin at 14 January, 2010, 2:32 am

Random thoughts
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 Dr A Q [...]

Blaming the IMF

By admin at 14 January, 2010, 2:31 am

Wednesday, January 20, 2010 Dr Meekal A Ahmed
Apportioning all our economic ills to the IMF is the usual IMF-bashing that [...]

The healthcare bill 2009

By admin at 14 January, 2010, 2:30 am

Wednesday, January 20, 2010 Sania Nishtar
Discussions around the Punjab Health Care Bill 2009 have intensified following some instances of alleged [...]

Obama’s lost momentum

By admin at 14 January, 2010, 2:29 am

Wednesday, January 20, 2010 Shamshad Ahmad
President Barack Hussein Obama completes his first year in office today. Last year, exactly on [...]

Bacha Khan’s legacy

By admin at 14 January, 2010, 2:28 am

Wednesday, January 20, 2010 Sartaj Khan
Khan Abdul Ghafar Khan, also known as Bacha Khan, died on Jan 20, 1988. [...]

Palestinian state

By admin at 13 November, 2009, 11:56 am

Wednesday, November 25, 2009 Tayyab Siddiqui
Upon assumption of presidency, Obama placed Middle East Peace Process as the priority in his [...]

The next phase of counter-militancy

By admin at 13 November, 2009, 11:53 am

Wednesday, November 25, 2009 Dr Maleeha Lodhi
The writer is a former envoy to the US and the UK, and a [...]

Timbuktu — city in the middle of nowhere

By admin at 13 November, 2009, 11:52 am

Part IV Random thoughts
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 Dr [...]

Quitting Afghanistan

By admin at 13 November, 2009, 11:51 am

Wednesday, November 25, 2009 Bassam Javed
The Obama administration in the United States is currently engaged in rethinking a fresh Afghan [...]

Driving the TTP out

By admin at 13 November, 2009, 11:47 am

Wednesday, November 25, 2009 Zafar Hilaly
For all their brave talk of fighting, dying and teaching the army a lesson, the [...]

JF-17: a major achievement

By admin at 13 November, 2009, 11:46 am

Wednesday, November 25, 2009 Talat Masood
The rolling out of the first indigenously assembled JF-17 Thunder fighter aircraft marks a major [...]

$1 billion a month

By admin at 11 November, 2009, 3:41 am

Wednesday, November 11, 2009 Tayyab Siddiqui
The critical economic situation through which Pakistan is currently passing has placed expatriate Pakistanis in [...]