Vol: XIV  NO: 9, September 2011

Art/Media

Ghazi Salahuddin, Wanted: dreamers of dreams, The News, 07 August 2011, P-7

Sarwat Ali, Heer’s the poem, The News , 07 August 2011, P-36

Sarwat Ali, “how they read us written & Edited by foreign writers”: what is that sets the foreign writers writings on Pakistan apart, The News, 14 August 2011, P-32

Aoun Sahi, Pride and privilege: foreign journalists or researchers in town benefit from a hefty pool of resources, the right attitude, besides an easy access to civil and military bureaucracy, The News, 14 August 2011, P-32

Usman Ghafoor, “Pakistan is unfairly scapegoated”, The News, 14 August 2011, P-33

Quddus Mirza, Price or praise, The News, 14 August 2011, P-36

Samar Mahmood, This is Radio Pakistan, Dawn, 14 August 2011, P-11

A. G. Noorani, Banning films, Dawn, 20 August 2011, P-07

Ghazi Salahuddin, Lights camera action, The News, 21 August 2011, P-7

Quddus Mirza, Small Wonders, The News, 21 August 2011, P-36

Sarwat Ali, Honouring the master, The News, 21 August 2011, P-36

Biography/interviews

Chris Cork, A good man passes, The News, 04 August 2011, P-7

Hosni Mubarak: in the caged dock, The Nation, 05 August 2011, P-08

Fareeha Rafique, “Visually there are a lot of differences in our work”, The News, 07 August 2011, P-29

John Hannah, Obama needs to follow king Abdullah on Syria, The Nation, 12 August 2011, P-08

S Iftikhar Murshed, Men of straw as Jinnah’s successors, The News, 14 August 2011, P-6

Arif Waqar, “I was only clearing my throat with the first one; here I feel I have a voice”, The News, 14 August 2011, P-29

Phyllis Bennis, Mubarak behind bars: Human rights & justice, The Nation, 16 August 2011, P-08

Tanuj Khosla, India needs Hazara, The Nation, 18 August 2011, P-08

Chris Cork, Silver screen redux, The News, 22 August 2011, P-7

Pamela Constable, Edhi: Pakistan’s true living hero, The Nation, 29 August 2011, P-08

Allan Jacob, No appetite for hunger, The Nation, 30 August 2011, P-08

Culture & Society/Women

Afiya Shehrbano, Dangers of cultural revivalism, The News, 03 August 2011, P-6

Zubeida Mustafa, Where are the peace women?, Dawn, 10 August 2011, P-06

Babar Sattar, Raising Pakistanis, The News, 13 August 2011, P-7

Fouzia Viqar, All that’s wrong with women’s shelter, The News, 14 August 2011, P-30

Arif Waqar, Story in question, The News, 14 August 2011, P-34

Sarwat Ali, Our mummified existence, The News, 14 August 2011, P-36

Reema Abbasi, Women victims and denial of justice, Dawn, 14 August 2011, P-09

Masood Hasan, Its raining awards, The News, 21 August 2011, P-7

More tales from the land of milk and honey, The Nation, 25 August 2011, P-07

Dr. Muhammad Yaqub, Homegrown imperialism, The News, 26 August 2011, P-6

Sana Bucha, Lawbreakers, The News, 28 August 2011, P-6

Masood Hasan, Pull it down, The News, 28 August 2011, P-7

Mir Abdul Aziz , A phantasy, The News, 31 August 2011, P-6

Economics

Shahid Javed Burki, America is finding its way Asia, Dawn, 01 August 2011, P-05

US debt deal is a billionaires’ coup, The Nation, 04 August 2011, P-08

Nick Turse, A Secret war in 120 countries, The Nation, 05 August 2011, P-08

Salman Shah, The economic journey, Dawn, 07 August 2011, P-07

Robert Haddick, Into the unknown, The Nation, 08 August 2011, P-08

Larry Elliott, Global crisis: key stages, Dawn, 09 August 2011, P-07

Fahad Zafar, American economy on the brink, The Nation, 09 August 2011, P-06

Nouriel Roubini, Mission impossible: stop another recession, The Nation, 09 August 2011, P-08

Sakib Sherani, A western ‘un-spring’, Dawn, 12 August 2011, P-07

Nasir Jamal, Looming exogenous shock, Dawn, 15 August 2011, P-01

Chris Cork, Basket case, The News, 17 August 2011, P-6

Jim Flaherty, Pravin Gordha, George Osborne, Tharman Shanmugarat Nam and Wayne Swan, Global recovery requires political courage, The Nation, 17 August 2011, P-08

Mohsin Hafeez, As the tiger awakens, Dawn, 18 August 2011, P-06

Muhammad Shehryar Khakwani, Lender or borrower?, Dawn, 21 August 2011, P-07

Khaleeq Kiani, The spillover effect, Dawn, 22 August 2011, P-EBR-I

Javid Husain, Beginning of the end?, The Nation, 23 August 2011, P-06

Nasir Jamal, Hamstrung banking for the poor, Dawn, 29 August 2011, P-EBR-I

Afshan Subohi, Eid spending stimulus for the economy, Dawn, 29 August 2011, P-EBR-I

Dr.Kamal Monnoo, Economic Lessons from China, The Nation, 3 August 2011, P-06

Will China replace US as No 1 ?, The Nation, 3 August 2011, P-08

Economics- Pakistan

Huma Yusuf, US economy and Pakistan, Dawn, 01 August 2011, P-06

Khaleeq Kiani, Gas policy on a perilous, Dawn, 01 August 2011, P-01

Afshan Subohi, Bustling Karachi bazaars, Dawn, 01 August 2011, P-01

Mohammad Ali Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s vulnerability to floods, Dawn, 01 August 2011, P-03

Intikhab Amir, Fata’s shift towards solar power, Dawn, 01 August 2011, P-06

Dr Ashfaque H Khan, Overstating FBR revenue, The News, 02 August 2011, P-6

Farrukh Khan Pitafi, Per capita happiness, The News, 04 August 2011, P-6

Arshad H Abbasi, Energy and security, The News, 06 August 2011, P-6

Afshan Subohi, Policy tilt towards economic growth, Dawn, 08 August 2011, P-01

Khaleeq Kiani, Working with degraded power plants and outdated system, Dawn, 08 August 2011, P-01

Ashfak Bokhari, Dismantling barriers for foreign investment, Dawn, 08 August 2011, P-06

Shahid Javed Burki, The ‘troubling cut in discount rate’, Dawn, 08 August 2011, P-06

Dr Ashfaque H khan, A new IMF programme, The News , 09 August 2011, P-6

Shahid Kardar, Case for privatisation , Dawn, 14 August 2011, P-09

Dilawar Hussain, Investor sentiment and reality, Dawn, 15 August 2011, P-01

Afshan Subohi, Spiralling urea prices, Dawn, 15 August 2011, P-01

Khaleeq Kiani, Deteriorating governance in FBR, Dawn, 15 August 2011, P-06

Dr Ashfaque Hasan Khna, Where is budget 2011-12, The News, 16 August 2011, P-6

Ameer Bhatto, Waiting for Punjab, The News, 18 August 2011, P-7

Nawab Mumtaz Ali Bhutto, Anyone for saving Pakistan, The News, 19 August 2011, P-6

Ali Hayat, The politics of privatisation, Dawn, 20 August 2011, P-06

Nasir Jamal, Influence of businesses in policymaking, Dawn, 22 August 2011, P-EBR-I

Afshan Subohi, Free trade and protectionism, Dawn, 22 August 2011, P-EBR-I

Ashfak Bokhari, The culture of tax avoidance, Dawn, 22 August 2011, P-EBR-VI

Mohammad Ali Khan, Hydro profit arrears payment staggered, Dawn, 22 August 2011, P-EBR-IV

Intikhab Amir, KP’s hydro fund unutilized, Dawn, 22 August 2011, P-EBR-IV

Dr. Ashfaque H. Khan, Deficit, debt and growth, The News, 23 August 2011, P-6

Dr. Maleeha Lodhi, Brewing economic crisis, The News, 24 August 2011, P-7

Dr. Kamal Monnoo, Economy: options and solutions!, The Nation, 24 August 2011, P-06

Sakib Sherani, Road to nowhere, Dawn, 26 August 2011, P-07

Salman Shah, Internal weaknesses, Dawn, 28 August 2011, P-09

Khaleeq Kiani, Iranian gas still a longway, Dawn, 29 August 2011, P-EBR-I

Intikhab Amir, KP’s plans for hydropower projects, Dawn, 29 August 2011, P-EBR-V

Ashfak Bookhari, Squeeze on Hilal industry, Dawn, 29 August 2011, P-EBR-VI

Shahd Jawed Burki, Power crisis and policy failures, Dawn, 29 August 2011, P-EBR-VI

Mohiuddin Aazim, Mixed trends in the economy, Dawn, 29 August 2011, P-EBR-VI

Dr. Ashfaque H. Khan, Reviving the economy, The News, 30 August 2011, P-6

Dr. Kamal Monnoo, Financial priorities!, The Nation, 31 August 2011, P-06

Education

Zubeida Mustafa, Consensus at Harvard, Dawn, 03 August 2011, P-06

Chris Cork, Timelines, The News , 08 August 2011, P-7

Jazib Zahir, And a B is nothing, The News, 21 August 2011, P-32

Sarah Sikandar, The A, B, C of stress, The News, 21 August 2011, P-33

Saad Hasan, Job Specific, The News, 21 August 2011, P-33

Ammara ahmad, (A-) Level playing field, The News, 21 August 2011, P-33

Ismat Riaz, Teaching teachers to teach, Dawn, 21 August 2011, P-Edu.7

Shakeel Ahmad, Karachi mayhem and national economy, The Nation, 23 August 2011, P-07

Shabnam Baloch, Education for development, Dawn, 28 August 2011, P-08

Zubeida Mustafa, When books are spared, Dawn, 31 August 2011, P-06

Environmental Issues & Environmental Management

Stephen Leahy, Earth’s systems in rapid decline, The Nation, 06 August 2011, P-08

Governance/ Management

Dr A Q Khan, Dirty politics, failed government, The News, 01 August 2011, P-6

Rahimullah Yusufzai, Hoping foor change in chaotic Pakistan , The News, 02 August 2011, P-6

Dr Maleeha Lodhi, Lost opportunity, The News, 03 August 2011, P-7

Ayaz Wazir, FATA misunderstood, The News, 04 August 2011, P-6

Saleem Safi, Democracy under Threat, The News, 06 August 2011, P-6

Babar Sattar, Our hornet’s nest, The News, 06 August 2011, P-7

Mushtaq Yusufzai, Burning Issue, The News, 07 August 2011, P-31

Jamil Nasir , Governance and development, The News , 08 August 2011, P-6

Hussain H Zaidi, Who’ll control the prices?, The News , 08 August 2011, P-6

Musharraf Zaidi, Punjab, Karachi and decentralization, The News , 09 August 2011, P-6

Praful Bidwai, BJP’s Karnataka catastrophe, The News , 10 August 2011, P-6

Mohammad Malick, We breed as rabbits, we die like vermin, The News , 10 August 2011, P-7

Ikram Sehgal, Creating more provinces?, The News , 11 August 2011, P-6

Dr Qaisar Rashid, The crisis of democracy, The News , 11 August 2011, P-6

Roedad Khan, From dreams to nightmare, The News, 13 August 2011, P-6

Masood Hassan, The buck never stops, The News, 14 August 2011, P-7

Ghazi Salahuddin, ‘When I am sixty-four’, The News, 14 August 2011, P-7

Shahzada Irfan Ahmed, Old cab gets a new colour, The News, 14 August 2011, P-30

Hussain H Zaidi, The case for optimism, The News, 15 August 2011, P-6

Dr. A Q Khan, God save the country from bad governance, The News, 15 August 2011, P-6

Tariq mahmud, Maze of governance, Dawn, 17 August 2011, P-07

Qaiser Rashid, Challenges to governance, The News, 18 August 2011, P-6

Anjum Niaz, Fight the corrupt, The News, 20 August 2011, P-7

Ardeshir Cowasjee, A ‘Killer’ population, Dawn, 21 August 2011, P-07

Rahimullah Yusufzai, Will army intervention work?, The News, 23 August 2011, P-7

Syed Saadat, Objections to audit, Dawn, 23 August 2011, P-06

Muhammad Malick, Watching silently from blood-soaked sidelines, The News, 24 August 2011, P-6

Iqbal Jafar, Confusing the confused, The News, 24 August 2011, P-6

Saleem Safi, Fata reforms: too little too late, The News, 24 August 2011, P-6

Roedad Khan, Killi8ing fields, The News, 25 August 2011, P-6

Government should deploy army in Karachi, The Nation, 25 August 2011, P-08

Tasneem Noorani, Unless the killings stop, The News, 26 August 2011, P-6

Shafqat Mehmood, Intellectual slogans, The News, 26 August 2011, P-7

John Podesta, Good governance critical in Afghanistan, The Nation, 26 August 2011, P-08

Musharraf Zaidi, The unthinking Pakistan, The News, 27 August 2011, P-6

Ayaz Wazir, Makew fata a province, The News, 28 August 2011, P-6

Chris Cork, Tin hat time, The News, 29 August 2011, P-6

Aijaz Zaka Syed, Celebrating a revolution, The News, 30 August 2011, P-6

Salahuddin Ahmed, Slow judicial process, Dawn, 30 August 2011, P-07

Ayaz Amir, Smashing the conspiracy of silence, The News, 31 August 2011, P-6

Ikram Sehgal, Season for home truths, The News , 31 August 2011, P-6

Mohammad Malick, Stand up for the state or stand down, The News , 31 August 2011, P-7

Areeba Malik, Finding Shahbaz, The News , 31 August 2011, P-7

History

Mubarak Ali, Ways of the mughal nobility, Dawn, 07 August 2011, P-04

Ayaz Amir, The uniqueness of Sindh, The News, 12 August 2011, P-6

Muzaffar Iqbal, Wither Pakistan?, The News, 12 August 2011, P-6

Kashif Jahangiri, A critical look at the tow nation theory, The News, 13 August 2011, P-6

M. J. Akbar, Another struggle for freedom, Dawn, 14 August 2011, P-09

Ardeshir Cowasjee, That enduring shame, Dawn, 14 August 2011, P-09

I. A. Rehman, Pakistan’s salvation, Dawn, 14 August 2011, P-01

A Pakistani renaissance, Dawn, 14 August 2011, P-03

Iftikhar Ali, Scenes in D.I. Khan at Pakistan’s birth, The Nation, 14 August 2011, P-06

Farzana Raja, August 14-need for national reconciliation, The Nation, 14 August 2011, P-07

Kamila Hyat, There is good news if we look for it, The News, 19 August 2011, P-6

Ishaq Khan Khakwani, Thw Bhadraloks of Dhaka, The News, 19 August 2011, P-6

Dr A.Q. Khan, True independence needs struggle, The News, 22 August 2011, P-6

Amber Michel, A social revolution, The News, 23 August 2011, P-6

A.R. Jerral, Is Pakistan a nation?, The Nation, 23 August 2011, P-07

S. Iftikhar Murshed, A scripture for people who think, The News, 27 August 2011, P-6

Dr. Maleeha Lodhi, History’s lessons, The News, 30 August 2011, P-7

Human Rights

Atle Hetland, After the 2011 tragedy in Norway, The Nation, 04 August 2011, P-06

Wasim Arif, Minorities Day, The News , 11 August 2011, P-7

Chris Woods, Drone Strikes killing children in Pakistan, The Nation, 14 August 2011, P-08

Mehdi Hasan, Barrack Obama’s war without end, The Nation, 21 August 2011, P-08

Farah Khalid Khan, Legitimising intolerance ?, The Nation, 3 August 2011, P-07

International Organizations

Momin Iftikhar, Breaking open CIA’s embrace, The Nation, 08 August 2011, P-06

Ishrat Husain, The global fallout, Dawn, 09 August 2011, P-06

Timothy Bancroft Hinchey, When will Nato stop killing Libyan Children?, The Nation, 17 August 2011, P-08

Khalid Iqbal, Protection of peacekeepers, The Nation, 22 August 2011, P-07

Muhammad Ali Siddiqi, Sovereignty chorus, Dawn, 25 August 2011, P-06

International Relations (USA, UK and Europe etc.)

Basil Assad, Fearing the unknown in Syria, The News, 02 August 2011, P-6

Aijaz Zaka Syed,  America’s borrowed glory, The News , 08 August 2011, P-6

Khalid Iqbal, America-Pakistan-India Triangle, The Nation, 1 August 2011, P-07

Deepa Rajkumar, In India, one protest results in two stories, The Nation, 12 August 2011, P-08

Umar Waqar, Betting on the Wrong Horse, The Nation, 2 August 2011, P-06

Bassam Javed , It’s time for India to rethink, The Nation, 2 August 2011, P-07

Azhar Masood, Libyan labyrinth: is it all about petroleum, The Nation, 25 August 2011, P-08

Ted Rall, The US’ war of words against Syria, The Nation, 26 August 2011, P-08

Khalid Iqbal, Afghanistan returning to the brink, The Nation, 29 August 2011, P-07

Christopher R. Hill, Beyond Nato;s Libyan redemption, The Nation, 30 August 2011, P-08

Kashmir

Ershad Mahmud, Empower Azad Kashmir, The News, 05 August 2011, P-6

Language & Literature

Qudsia Sajjad, Fiction becomes memory, The News, 07 August 2011, P-34

M. Abul Fazl, Of a master of prose, The Nation, 11 August 2011, P-07

Arif Waqar, Story in question, The News, 14 August 2011, P-34

Altaf Hussain Asad, A fresh interpretation, The News, 21 August 2011, P-34

Ammara ahmad, The Craft of writing, The News, 21 August 2011, P-34

Law

Mohammad Malick, Let justice, and baptism of fire begin, The News, 03 August 2011, P-6

Alexender Hanna, Fridays in Tahrir Square, The News, 03 August 2011, P-6

Ikram Sehgal, Power Play, The News, 04 August 2011, P-6

Roedad Khan, Though the heavens fall, The News, 06 August 2011, P-6

Anjum Niaz, Justice ala Mubarak!, The News, 06 August 2011, P-7

Abid Hasan, Judicial activism, The News , 10 August 2011, P-6

Tanwir Naqvi, Devolution the saviour-I, Dawn, 10 August 2011, P-07

Rahimullah Yusufzal, Some more real change in Fata, The News, 16 August 2011, P-7

Ikram Sehgal, Factors affecting national security, The News, 18 August 2011, P-6

Dr. Hassan Ko Nakata, Shariah as the rule of law, The Nation, 19 August 2011, P-07

M. A. Niazi, Stirring the mix, The Nation, 19 August 2011, P-06

Babar Sattar, Perceptions of injustice, The News, 20 August 2011, P-7

Abid Hasan, Corruption vs the judiciary, The News, 24 August 2011, P-6

Kamila Hyat, Ghosts and whispers from a forgotten past, The News, 25 August 2011, P-7

Ayaz Amir, A strauss-Kahn in Chakwal, The News, 26 August 2011, P-6

Miscellaneous

Hajrah Mumtaz, The edge of reason, Dawn, 01 August 2011, P-07

Rafia Zakaria, A note to the ‘nearly departed’, Dawn, 03 August 2011, P-07

Mahir Ali, Charity begins on the concert stage, Dawn, 03 August 2011, P-07

Omar Barghouti, Dropping of the last mask of democracy, The Nation, 04 August 2011, P-08

Rabia Alavi, Facebook fixation, The News, 05 August 2011, P-6

Farah Zahidi Moazzam, Cancerous concerns, The News, 07 August 2011, P-31

Jeffrey sachs, Famine and hope in the horn of Africa, The Nation, 07 August 2011, P-08

Khalid Iqbal, The civil military see-saw, The Nation, 08 August 2011, P-07

Patrick Seale, How Iran defeated Obama, The Nation, 09 August 2011, P-08

Rafia Zakaria, Outsourcing conscience, Dawn, 10 August 2011, P-07

Ummar Ziauddin, Education: The road to deliverance, The Nation, 10 August 2011, P-06

Gavin Knight, London riots not the work of organized gangs, The Nation, 10 August 2011, P-08

Jawed Naqvi, Imagine, as lennon said, Dawn, 11 August 2011, P-07

Azam Khalil, USA’s future military plans, The Nation, 11 August 2011, P-07

Kieran Connell, Riots don’t happen without a reason, The Nation, 11 August 2011, P-08

Sharique Naeem,  From Arab spring to European Autumn, The Nation, 12 August 2011, P-07

Irfan Husain, Living in the respectorate, Dawn, 13 August 2011, P-07

Praveen Swami, India’s anti-maoist war in serious trouble, The Nation, 13 August 2011, P-08

Craig Guthrie, Pride  prejudice over china’s aircraft carrier, The Nation, 13 August 2011, P-08

A H Cemendtaur, So fresh so unadulterated, The News, 14 August 2011, P-35

Huma Yusuf, Technology and riots, Dawn, 15 August 2011, P-06

Ajay Chhibber, Flood victims still need support, The Nation, 15 August 2011, P-08

Shakeel Ahmad,  Impact of corruption on our society, The Nation, 16 August 2011, P-07

Mark Thompson, US army suicide rate hits new high, The Nation, 16 August 2011, P-08

Rafia Zakaria, Feminisation of faith, Dawn, 17 August 2011, P-07

Ben White, Political solution for Palestine not aid, The Nation, 18 August 2011, P-08

Abbas Nasir, A modest aspiration, Dawn, 20 August 2011, P-07

Jillian C. York, Democracies learn from Mubarak’s example, The Nation, 20 August 2011, P-08

Aijaz Zaka Syed, No One, not even the PM, is above the law, The Nation, 21 August 2011, P-08

Franklin Lamb, Waiting for endgame in Libya, The Nation, 21 August 2011, P-08

Farhan Bokhari, Pakistan yearns for a “Hazare” too, The Nation, 22 August 2011, P-08

S.M. Hali, Pakistan needs an Anna Hazare, The Nation, 24 August 2011, P-07

Ahmed Moor, It’s time for all Palestinians to be heard, The Nation, 24 August 2011, P-08

Anjum Niaz, America trembles, The News, 27 August 2011, P-7

Shada Islam, Europe on vacation, Dawn, 27 August 2011, P-06

Mary Dejevsky, The false romance of revolution , The Nation, 27 August 2011, P-08

Dov Zakheim, Why Assad’s own clan might dump him, The Nation, 29 August 2011, P-08

Marwan Bishara, A rude Arab awakening, The Nation, 3 August 2011, P-08

Asha’ar Rehman, From a land held hostage, Dawn, 30 August 2011, P-07

Basil Nabi Malik, Corruption in transit trade, Dawn, 30 August 2011, P-07

Akif Abdulamir, Do you care enough?, The Nation, 30 August 2011, P-06

Russia stands on wrong side of Arab Spring, The Nation, 30 August 2011, P-08

S.M. Hali, Stranded in Tripoli, The Nation, 31 August 2011, P-06

Pak-Foreign Relations (India, Islamic Countries and others)

Javed Hafiz, Can India lead Asia?, The News, 01 August 2011, P-6

Asif Ezdi, A two-track dialogue, The News, 01 August 2011, p-7

Adiah Afraz, A song about colourful henna, The News, 02 August 2011, P-6

Rizwan Asghar, A forward move, The News, 02 August 2011, P-7

Iqbal Haider, Pak-India dialogue, The News, 03 August 2011, P-6

Tanvir Ahmad Khan, What HRK should add to glamour, The News, 03 August 2011, P-7

Farooq Hameed Khan, Honouring Pakistan blue berets, The Nation, 05 August 2011, P-07

S Iftikhar Murshed, Ms Khar’s journey to India , The News, 07 August 2011, P-6

Huma Yusuf, Pakistan’s FMCT woes, Dawn, 08 August 2011, P-06

Mushahid Hussain, Kashgar must not mar ties, Dawn, 09 August 2011, P-07

Javid Husain, Pakistan-India relations revisited, The Nation, 09 August 2011, P-06

Saleem Safi, Afghanistan: the winners and the losers, The News , 10 August 2011, P-6

Tayyab Siddiqui, A paranoid Israel, The News , 10 August 2011, P-6

Tanvir Ahmad Khan, Kashgar situation, The News , 10 August 2011, P-7

Aijaz Zaka Syed, Splendid isolation of Syria, The News, 15 August 2011, P-6

Asif Ezdi, Road to hegemony, The News, 15 August 2011, P-7

Rustam Shah Mohmand, Facing reality, The News, 16 August 2011, P-7

Tanvir Ahmad Khan, India’s second coming, The News, 24 August 2011, P-7

A G Noorani, Putting life in talks, Dawn, 27 August 2011, P-07

Areeba Malik, Sharif’s stance, The News, 29 August 2011, P-7

Sunil Sharan, Fork in the road, Dawn, 30 August 2011, P-06

Malik Muhammad Ashraf, Higher than the Himalayas, The Nation, 30 August 2011, P-07

Pak-American Politics

Asad Munir, US performance in Afghanistan, The News, 04 August 2011, P-6

Imran Malik, USA and Pakistan: Hobson’s Choice, The Nation, 06 August 2011, P-06

Moeed Yusuf, NO alternative to ties, Dawn, 08 August 2011, P-07

Rahimullah Yusufzai, US drawdown and a hollow victory, The News , 09 August 2011, P-6

Amitabh Pal, Muslim-Americans different from other Americans, The Nation, 09 August 2011, P-08

Ashraf Javed, Repairing fractured Pak-US ties, The Nation, 10 August 2011, P-08

Munir Ahmad Baloch, The Indo-US courtship, The News, 12 August 2011, P-6

Dr Maleeha Lodhi, Ramzan’s lost chance for an afghan truce, The News, 17 August 2011, P-7

Dr. Farooq Hassan, Shift in US relations with Pakistan, The Nation, 19 August 2011, P-07

Farooq Hameed Khan, Rejecting new US consulates, The Nation, 20 August 2011, P-06

Inayatullah, Our troubled relations with USA, The Nation, 20 August 2011, P-07

General Mirza Aslam Beg, Pak-US relations: terms of engagement, The Nation, 21 August 2011, P-07

John Podesta, Brian Katulis and Caroline Wadhams, How to prepare Afghanistan for US withdrawal, The Nation, 23 August 2011, P-08

Ikram Sehgal, Socio-political factors and national security, The News, 25 August 2011, P-6

Inayatullah, Starting a fresh dialogue with USA, The Nation, 27 August 2011, P-06

Huma Yusuf, Nightmare scenario, Dawn, 29 August 2011, P-06

Moeed yusuf, Approaching the endgame, Dawn, 29 August 2011, P-07

Politics

Kamran Shafi, Grow up, stop whingeing, Dawn, 02 August 2011, P-07

Jawed Naqvi, When neruda smiled at Nehru , Dawn, 04 August 2011, P-07

Timothy Garton Ash, Reforming the US political system, Dawn, 05 August 2011, P-07

A. G. Noorani, Politicians’ wealth, Dawn, 06 August 2011, P-07

Irfan Husain, A mugging in Washington, Dawn, 06 August 2011, P-07

Ali Sarwar Naqvi, International isolation, Dawn, 07 August 2011, P-06

M. J. Akbar, Mark this antonym, Dawn, 07 August 2011, P-07

Political roots in US economic crisis, The Nation, 07 August 2011, P-08

Noam Chomsky, America in decline, The Nation, 07 August 2011, P-08

Dr A Q Khan, As you sow, so shall you reap, The News , 08 August 2011, P-6

Asif Ezdi, Another wake-up call, The News , 08 August 2011, P-7

Linda Chavez, Barack Obama’s Leadership deficit , The Nation, 1 August 2011, P-08

Mahir Ali, America’s capacity for self-harm, Dawn, 10 August 2011, P-07

Khalid Aziz, What Pakistan can learn, Dawn, 12 August 2011, P-07

M.A. Niazi, Getting downgraded, The Nation, 12 August 2011, P-06

A.H. Khayal, Japan’s atomic destruction, The Nation, 12 August 2011, P-07

Ishaq Khan Khakwani, The contagion of fear, The News, 13 August 2011, P-6

Arif Azad, The underlying cause, Dawn, 13 August 2011, P-06

A. G. Noorani, The US and diplomacy, Dawn, 13 August 2011, P-07

M. Zaidi, US versus the world, Dawn, 15 August 2011, P-07

Kamran Shafi, Showing the mirror to ourselves, Dawn, 16 August 2011, P-07

Mahir Ali, Britons behaving badly, Dawn, 17 August 2011, P-07

Jawed Naqvi, And now, amy winehouse, Dawn, 18 August 2011, P-07

Abdel Bari Atwan, Echoes of Afghanistan in Libya, Dawn, 19 August 2011, P-07

Hugh Hewitt, Signs of Failure emerging in Obama’s numbers, The Nation, 2 August 2011, P-08

Aijaz Zaka Syed, Who lost india congress?, The News, 20 August 2011, P-6

Irfan Husain, Be careful what you wish for, Dawn, 20 August 2011, P-07

M J Akbar, When power outstrips ability, Dawn, 21 August 2011, P-07

Praful Bidwal, Wages of neoliberalism, The News, 22 August 2011, P-6

Hajrah Mumtaz, Communicating a revolution, Dawn, 22 August 2011, P-07

Mahir Ali, After Tripoli, long live Nato?, Dawn, 24 August 2011, P-07

Patrick Cockburn, Now what in Libya?, The News, 25 August 2011, P-7

S M Naseem, Hour of reckoning for America, Dawn, 25 August 2011, P-07

Jawed Naqvi, To hell with good intentios, Dawn, 25 August 2011, P-07

Dr. Muzaffar Iqbal, West’s new middle east, The News, 26 August 2011, P-6

Afiya Shehrbano, The politics of anti-secular scholarship, The News, 29 August 2011, P-6

Hajrah mumtaz, Of delusions and narratives, Dawn, 29 August 2011, P-07

Hajrah mumtaz, Of delusions and narratives, Dawn, 29 August 2011, P-07

Mahir Ali, Anna is watching (some of) you…, Dawn, 31 August 2011, P-07

Politics-Pakistan

Zirgham Nabi Afridi, Why Imran Khan will win, The News, 01 August 2011, P-6

Chris Cork, Diplo-bling, The News, 01 August 2011, P-7

Muahmmad Amir Rana, Militants’ rehabilitation, Dawn, 01 August 2011, P-07

Syed Talat Hussain, The politics of Russian roulette, Dawn, 01 August 2011, P-07

Iqbal Jafar, Waiting for revolution, Dawn, 02 August 2011, P-06

Dr. Nicolas Martin, Rethinking aid, Dawn, 02 August 2011, P-07

Asha’ar Rehman, ‘My vote goes to Wasim Akram’, Dawn, 02 August 2011, P-07

Tasneem Siddiqui, Our circular path, Dawn, 03 August 2011, P-07

I. A. Rehman, Wages of brinkmanship, Dawn, 04 August 2011, P-07

Azam Khalil, Aproper prescription for democracy, The Nation, 04 August 2011, P-07

Harris Khalique, Madressah reform?, The News, 05 August 2011, P-7

S. Akbar Zaidi, Military as an obstacle, Dawn, 05 August 2011, P-07

Cyril Almeida, A bureaucracy trampled, Dawn, 05 August 2011, P-07

Nawab Mumtaz Ali Bhutto, Is this politics or folly?, The News, 06 August 2011, P-6

Kunwar Idris, Dinosaurs of  politics, Dawn, 06 August 2011, P-06

Adiah Afraz, My Muse? The PPP, The News, 07 August 2011, P-6

Shahzada Irfan Ahmed, Target list, The News, 07 August 2011, P-32

Syed Talat Hussain, Gangs of Karachi, Dawn, 08 August 2011, P-07

Hajrah Mumtaz, Artists with a mission, Dawn, 08 August 2011, P-07

Ikram Ullah, New provinces: Right issue at wrong time, The Nation, 08 August 2011, P-07

Asha’ar Rehman, One province leads to many, Dawn, 09 August 2011, P-07

Mohammad  Waseem, The Karachi imbroglio, Dawn, 09 August 2011, P-07

Kamila Hyat, A question of priorities, The News , 11 August 2011, P-7

I. A. Rehman , Of new provinces, Dawn, 11 August 2011, P-07

Tanwir Naqvi, Devolution the saviour-II: devolution the stabilizer, Dawn, 11 August 2011, P-07

Shafqat Mahmood, The context for change theories, The News, 12 August 2011, P-7

Cyrila Almeida, Regionalisation of the electorate, Dawn, 12 August 2011, P-07

Ismail Khan, Strengthening institutes, The News, 13 August 2011, P-6

Abbas Nasir, A plea for sanity, Dawn, 13 August 2011, P-07

Tallat Azim, Sixty-four tumultuous years, The Nation, 13 August 2011, P-06

Mohammad Jamil, Sinister design to destabilize Pakistan, The Nation, 13 August 2011, P-06

Inayatullah, Sindh somersaults, The Nation, 13 August 2011, P-07

Aoun Sahi, Four or more, The News, 14 August 2011, P-31

Sharif al Mujahid, Federal polity and diversity, Dawn, 14 August 2011, P-08

Imtiaz Rafi Butt, Celebrating independence Day, The Nation, 14 August 2011, P-07

Raoof Hasan, Spoiler or saviour?, The News, 15 August 2011, P-6

Bahzad Alam Khan, How the PPP squandered its gains, Dawn, 15 August 2011, P-07

Momin Iftikhar, Pakistan: Muslim visionarie’s gift, The Nation, 15 August 2011, P-06

Momin Iftikhar, Pakistan: Muslim visionarie’s gift, The Nation, 15 August 2011, P-06

Khalid Iqbal, Quicksand of new provinces, The Nation, 15 August 2011, P-07

Mosharrat Zaidi, Progress in a messy democracy, The News, 16 August 2011, P-6

Iftekhar A Khan, Where is my country, The News, 16 August 2011, P-6

Dr Sania Nishtar, Some misunderstood attributes, The News, 16 August 2011, P-6

Kunwar Idris, From one to sixteen, Dawn, 16 August 2011, P-06

Javed Jabbar, Make voting compulsory, Dawn, 16 August 2011, P-07

Asha’ar Rehman, As potohar sleeps, seraiki wakes up, Dawn, 16 August 2011, P-07

S. Tariq, Wither Jinnah’s Pakistan , The Nation, 16 August 2011, P-06

Mohammad Malick, Invictus, Michael Jackson and the independence spirit, The News, 17 August 2011, P-6

Ijazul Haq, Change is coming, The News, 17 August 2011, P-6

Zubeida Mustafa, Victims of disappearance, Dawn, 17 August 2011, P-06

Hadi Iqbal Hussain, Reviving Pakistan Railways, The Nation, 17 August 2011, P-06

I. A. Rehman, The new deal for Fata, Dawn, 18 August 2011, P-07

Razeshta Sethna, Extremism and minorities, Dawn , 18 August 2011, P-07

Mowahid Hussain Shah, Nation to non-nation, The Nation, 18 August 2011, P-06

Azam Khalil, Time for assessment, The Nation, 18 August 2011, P-07

The land of milk and honey, The Nation, 18 August 2011, P-07

Ayaz Amir, A land in the grip of fairytales, The News, 19 August 2011, P-6

Shafqat Mahmood, Bureaucracy, politicians and democracy, The News, 19 August 2011, P-7

Harris Khalique, Watayo’s Sindh, The News, 19 August 2011, p-7

S. Akbar Zaidi, Our westernized elite, Dawn, 19 August 2011, P-07

Khalid Aziz, Dynamics of Fata reforms, Dawn, 19 August 2011, P-07

Cyril Almeida, The unraveling, Dawn, 19 August 2011, P-07

Dr. I. Kamal, A plea for more provinces, The Nation, 20 August 2011, P-07

Abrar Kazi, Zulfiqar fHalepoto, Rapprochement is possible, Dawn, 21 August 2011, P-06

Niaz Murtaza, When armies surrender, Dawn, 21 August 2011, P-07

Jalees hazir, Following Kachura or Fairy Meadows?, The Nation, 21 August 2011, P-06

Hussain H. Zaidi, Honours well deserved, The News, 22 August 2011, P-6

Asif Ezdi, Playing the Seraiki card, The News, 22 August 2011, P-7

Huma Yusuf, No room for optimism, Dawn, 22 August 2011, P-06

Muhammd Amor Rana, Intellectual response, Dawn, 22 August 2011, P-07

Syed Mohibullah Shah, Demolition via devolution, Dawn, 22 August 2011, P-07

Momin Iftikhar, FMCT: securing Pakistan’s interests, The Nation, 22 August 2011, P-06

Khalid Iqbal, Protection of peacekeepers, The Nation, 22 August 2011, P-07

Iftikhar A. Khan, Waiting for a Hazare, The News, 23 August 2011, P-7

Mohammad Waseem, Is Pakistan ungovernable?, Dawn, 23 August 2011, P-07

Ash’ar Rehman, For some, polls are always early, Dawn, 23 August 2011, P-07

Kamran Shafi, Kudos and condemnation, Dawn, 23 August 2011, P-07

Pakistan’s never ending woes, The Nation, 23 August 2011, P-08

Zubeida Mustafa, Time for healing, Dawn, 24 August 2011, P-06

Iqbal Jafar, A failed state?, Dawn, 24 August 2011, P-06

Rafia Zakaria, City of the almost-dead, Dawn, 24 August 2011, P-07

Dr. Haider Mehdi, Understanding people’s revolution, The Nation, 24 August 2011, P-07

Ameer Bhutto, The Battler for Karachi, The News, 25 August 2011, P-6

I A Rehman, The Nawaz dilemma, Dawn, 25 August 2011, P-07

Zeeshan Adhi, Leadership crises, par excellence, The Nation, 25 August 2011, P-06

Harris Khalique, Number Game, The News, 26 August 2011, P-7

Cyril Almeida, Good ol’ bad politics, Dawn, 26 August 2011, P-07

Praful Bidwai, Overruling democracy, The News, 27 August 2011, P-6

Babar Sattar, Dilemmas of loyalty, The News, 27 August 2011, P-7

Abbas Nasir, If wishes were horses …, Dawn, 27 August 2011, P-07

Irfan Husain, A ‘nuclear’ option for Karachi, Dawn, 27 August 2011, P-07

Tallat Azim, To be or not to be, The Nation, 27 August 2011, P-06

M. J. Akbar, Cancer at heart of democracy , Dawn, 28 August 2011, P-09

Ardeshir Cowasjee, Hope springs eternal, Dawn, 28 August 2011, P-09

Jalees Hazir, Conflicting development priorities, The Nation, 28 August 2011, P-06

S. Tariq, Yahan to aisay hi hota hai, The Nation, 28 August 2011, P-06

General Mirza Aslam Beg, Proxy war and politics in Pakistan, The Nation, 28 August 2011, P-07

Hussain H. Zaidi, Not that serious yet, The News, 29 August 2011, P-6

Asif Ezdi, No way to build bridges, The News, 29 August 2011, P-7

Tasneem siddiqui, No desire to learn, Dawn, 29 August 2011, P-07

Shakeel Ahmad, The Promise and risk of Devolution, The Nation, 3 August 2011, P-06

Rahimullah Yusufzai, No ordinary allegations, The News, 30 August 2011, P-6

Dr. Haider Mehdi, Pakistan’s summer of hell!, The Nation, 30 August 2011, P-06

Imran Malik, Need for FMCY to be realistic, The Nation, 30 August 2011, P-07

Ismail Khan, Moving ahead on Fata, The News, 31 August 2011, P-6

Niaz Murtaza, Ethnic or administrative?, Dawn, 31 August 2011, P-07

Recent Military Wars

Karamatullah Ghori, America drags its feet in Iraq, The Nation, 06 August 2011, P-08

Sana Bucha, An ailing Pakistan, The News, 14 August 2011, P-6

Saad Hasan, Farewell to arms, The News, 14 August 2011, P-31

Dr S.M. Taha, A paradigm for urban security, The News, 20 August 2011, P-6

Robert Naiman, To live within our means, let’s leave Iraq, The Nation, 20 August 2011, P-08

Noreen Haider, The Bleeding streets, The News, 23 August 2011, P-6

Ghazi Salahuddin, On the brink of disaster, The News, 28 August 2011, P-7

Religion

Muhammad Amir Rana, Reservations and concerns, The News, 07 August 2011, P-32

Aoun Sahi, Them and society , The News, 07 August 2011, P-33

Amir mir, Preaching the way to paradise, The News, 07 August 2011, P-33

Waqar Gillani, International presence, The News, 07 August 2011, P-33

A.R. Jerral, Salvation or destruction, The Nation, 10 August 2011, P-07

Ramazan: a trip down memory lane, The Nation, 11 August 2011, P-06

Adnan Aziz, The malicious indictment of Islam, The News, 12 August 2011, P-6

Muhammad Rafi, The blessings of  Ramazan, Dawn, 12 August 2011, P-06

Muhammad Ismail Khan, Since 9/11: the existence of jihadists as a tool of foreign policy is what drives foreign worriers to pick their pens, post the Sep 11 incident, The News, 14 August 2011, P-33

Nilofar Ahmed , The Prophet as a social activist, Dawn, 19 August 2011, P-06

Khwaja Mohammad Zubair, Spirit of Ramadan, The Nation, 2 August 2011, P-07

Jackson Diehl, Will turmoil drag Libya’s rebels under ?, The Nation, 2 August 2011, P-08

Bushra Ishaq, Not Islamic Norway, but islam in Norway, The News, 20 August 2011, P-6

S Iftikhar Murshed , Full of beliefs and empty of religion, The News, 21 August 2011, P-6

Umar Waqar, Anna Hazare and the Indian Spring, The Nation, 21 August 2011, P-06

Atle Hetland, Ramazan thoughts, The Nation, 25 August 2011, P-06

Amin Valliani, The need to reflect, Dawn, 26 August 2011, P-06

Zahid Ahmad Khan, The blesses Jumat-ul-Wida, The Nation, 26 August 2011, P-07

Khawaja Mohammad Zubair, The night of spiritual bliss, The Nation, 28 August 2011, P-07

Dr. A. Q. Khan, Wrongdoings in Ramazan, The News, 29 August 2011, P-6

Faisal Al Yafai, Ramazan Could alter the course of Arab Uprisings, The Nation, 3 August 2011, P-08

Mir Abdul Aziz, A phantasy, The News, 30 August 2011, P-6

Tanvir Ahmad Khan, A somber Eid, The News, 30 August 2011, P-7

Rafia Zakaria, Entitled to Eid, Dawn, 31 August 2011, P-07

Atle Hetland, Reaching home for Eid, The Nation, 31 August 2011, P-06

Science & Information Technology

Anam Javed, Parenting or paranoia?, The News, 07 August 2011, P-31

Atta-Ur-Rahman, The wondrous world of science, Dawn, 07 August 2011, P-07

Dr Maleeha Lodhi, Between Plan A and B, The News , 09 August 2011, P-7

Atta-Ur-Rahman, The wondrous world of science, Dawn, 14 August 2011, P-18

Rizwan Asghar, The atom bomb, The News, 18 August 2011, P-7

Atta ur Rahman, The wondrous world of science, Dawn, 21 August 2011, P-Edu.7

Heather Brroke, Inside the secret world, Dawn, 26 August 2011, P-07

Atta-Ur-Rahman, The wondrous world of science, Dawn, 28 August 2011, P-07

Sports

Saad Shafqat, Whitewash?, Dawn, 07 August 2011, P-05

Mamoona Ali Kazmi, Reasons for terrorism in India, The Nation, 07 August 2011, P-07

Ali Sultan, Soul not scores, The News, 21 August 2011, P-32

Topic of the Month (Kashmir)

Umar Waqar, Chinar valley and the Kashmir spring, The Nation, 09 August 2011, P-07

Muhammad Ali Siddiqi, Indian ire at Fai, Dawn, 11 August 2011, P-06

Zulfiqar Abbasi, Why Azad Kashmir lags, The News, 17 August 2011, P-6

Momin Iftikhar, The killing fields of Kashmir, The Nation, 29 August 2011, P-06

War/Terrorism

Hussain H Zaidi, Karachi is bledding? Let it bleed, The News, 01 August 2011, P-6

Mosharraf Zaidi, The quintessential ‘un-city’, The News, 02 August 2011, P-7

Kamila Hyat, Standing across a cut-off line, The News, 04 August 2011, P-7

Touqir Hussain, Partners in denial, Dawn, 04 August 2011, P-06

Ayaz Amir, Sector commanders on the defensive, The News, 05 August 2011, P-6

Shafqat Mahmood, Karachi bleeds yet again, The News, 05 August 2011, P-7

Asghar Ali Engineer, Religion, peace & radicalism, Dawn, 05 August 2011, P-06

Khalid Aziz, Bin Laden’s last laugh, Dawn, 05 August 2011, P-07

Abbas Nasir, ‘Double column’ saves the nation, Dawn, 06 August 2011, P-07

Inayatullah, Karachi disaster: Apossible Solution, The Nation, 06 August 2011, P-07

Toni Usman, Roses against hate and terror, The News, 07 August 2011, P-30

Malik Muhammad Ashraf, The killing fields of Karachi, The Nation, 07 August 2011, P-06

M Saeed Khalid, Beyond the turning point, The News , 09 August 2011, P-6

Rizwan Asghar, This war of lies, The News , 09 August 2011, P-7

Lubna Hameed, Hindutva Terrorism : A Bigger Threat, The Nation, 1 August 2011, P-06

Fatima Bhutto, Why Karachi’s Violence Shouldn’t define city, The Nation, 1 August 2011, P-08

Linda S. Heard, Iraq must keep US trainers out, The Nation, 10 August 2011, P-08

Chris Cork, Tweet to loot, The News , 11 August 2011, P-6

Mir Adnan Aziz, The Malicious indictment of Islam, The News , 11 August 2011, P-6

Atle Hetland, Analyzing the Norway tragedy, The Nation, 11 August 2011, P-06

Joseph S. Nye, Democracy’s drama in terrorisms theatre, The Nation, 13 August 2011, P-08

Umar Waqar, Root causes of London looting spree, The Nation, 16 August 2011, P-06

Tanvir Ahmad Khan, Sinning against Sindh, The News, 17 August 2011, P-7

Atta-ur-Rehman, Pakistan the way forward, The News, 18 August 2011, P-6

Matthew Green, The killers of Pakistan’s economic hub, The Nation, 18 August 2011, P-08

Dr Muzaffar Iqbal, War of terror, The News, 20 August 2011, P-6

Imran Khan, When terrorists are merely irrational, The News, 21 August 2011, P-6

Aoun Sahi, Nobody has witnessed anything, The News, 21 August 2011, P-29

Sadif Shahid, The mother of crime?, The News, 23 August 2011, P-6

Aziz Ali Dad, The Xinjiang problem, The News, 25 August 2011, P-6

Khalid Aziz, Reality begins to dawn, Dawn, 26 August 2011, P-07

M.A. Niazi, The killing fields of Karachi, The Nation, 26 August 2011, P-06

Rizwan Asghar, Funding the Taliban, The News, 27 August 2011, P-6

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