I have been trying to write a blog for quite some time now. I first felt like writing when Pakistan was under the scrutiny of International media, and Abbotabad was on every news Channel, be it Urdu, Hindi, English or even languages I didn’t even know existed. “OBL killed in a Call of Duty kind of o...
Winemakers in Australia are getting a taste of what extreme weather can do to their crops, sending them scrambling to prepare for the tougher years ahead.Vineyards in grape-growing regions of the country could soon see an increase in pests as well as a dramatic shift in ripening patterns and flavor ...
Figuring out whether you save money depends on a lot of factors—especially where you liveThe big question for any homeowner considering installing solar power is a simple one: How quickly will the system pay for itself?The short answer: It depends on where you live.That doesn't just mean how sunny i...
Koodankulam, INDIA: It is a protest that not only threatens the commissioning of the largest nuclear reactor in India but also could cripple the country’s plans to satisfy more of its growing energy needs with nuclear power.For nearly 400 days, residents of fishing villages in the southern Indian st...
Afghanistan will slide back into civil war when American troops leave, according to a key insurgent negotiator who says peace talks now have no chance of success. Islamabad: Ghairat Baheer, a senior figure in Hizb-i-Islami who has held three meetings with US officials in Kabul, told The Daily Tele...
Over 60 million American adults use search engines on a typical day. With over a trillion Web pages to search, just how effective are those millions of Internet users in finding information? According to IDC, a top provider of Internet research, at least 50% of the time, searchers are unable to find...
WHEN my father came home from Friday prayers, I was eager to know what the sermon had been about. We’d all been following three days of protests outside the US embassy in Cairo, ostensibly over a film deemed offensive to the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) that was posted to YouTube. More protests were expe...
IT is not surprising that President Barack Obama personally intervened in a backroom argument during the Democratic Party convention to ensure support for Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in the party’s election manifesto. He had said as much during the election campaign in 2008.However, while persuadi...
AS yet another furor breaks out over a movie with an unflattering depiction of the Holy Prophet (PBUH), it is time to reflect on how Muslims should react to offensive material on the Internet.In our digital age where social media sites contain millions of pages of all kinds of material, should we re...
Mustafa Abu Shagour will be spending much of his time as Libya’s prime minister grappling with the country’s grave domestic security problems, which have been painfully highlighted by the assault that killed the US ambassador in Benghazi.Abu Shagour, a US-trained optical engineer who is admired for ...
People do not go to work to be blown into smithereens by ill-maintained boilers or be burnt alive by chemical fires. “Take care” and “be safe” are often the last words exchanged with one’s family before he or she leaves home for work each day. Little do families know that their dear ones will be spe...
If a foreign soldier asks to see a picture of your wife, don't take offense -- but don't show it to him either. And if he blows his nose in your presence, or exits from the shower naked in your presence, don't be alarmed. These actions are not intended to insult, and are no cause for retaliation. ...
BERKELEY, Calif: A small building tucked in the hills of Northern California shines with an unusual green glow from hundreds of glass tubes jutting out from one side toward nearby bushes.Inside, the dark wooden shed contains an undulating wall filled with the translucent rods, each like a 3-foot-lon...
When you first hear the name Thenmozhi Rajaratnam, it doesn’t seem to hold much significance – it’s a name that doesn’t really make you pause and think for a moment. However, on 21 May 1991, Rajaratnam alias ‘Dhanu’ or ‘Gayatri’ carried out an assassination that was both spectacular and horrific at ...
The legendary Lehri, who passed away on Thursday in Karachi at the age of 83, will live on as the once almost indispensable sidekick of the Pakistani film.Starting in the mid-1950s, Lehri — born Safirullah Siddiqui — was a reliable entertainer for many decades. In his later years he served as a nost...
ISLAMABAD: The apparent collapse of a case against a Christian girl accused of burning pages containing verses from the holy Quran has given a dim ray of hope to critics of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws.The girl was believed to be mentally impaired, and a cleric from her neighborhood was eventually arre...
A total of 146 people died in the deadliest fire on a factory floor premises. The building had numerous well marked exits, stairways outside the building to be used exclusively at a time of such a fire and two freight elevators. However, many unfortunate workers trapped on the ninth and tenth floor ...
Once again Uncle Sam has sternly sabotaged the repute & dignity of our venerable Parliament House through the annunciation of their ferine intentions to carry on the Drone strikes against militant targets on Pakistani soil. This declaration has possibly set the two countries up for diplomatic tensio...
Most unsurprising has been the apparent revival of drama on television desperately trying to make up for the missing (in every sense of the word) genres of film, theatre and multiple restrictions on other recreations in our country.In other words, drama comes in handy in the absence of other healthy...
It seems womankind has been struck with the current spa craze. So many spa centers on the Karachi snob list with their flag-high rates make me only wonder if we have become too self-indulgent or that in the stress-packed life of today, it’s impossible to function without generous strokes of a spa co...
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US, Germany, Italy vow key Afghan roles post-2014
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Coalition Deliberates Afghan Presence
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