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The Microsoft phone: Just not good enough?
Can the Windows Phone 7 help Microsoft rise to the top of the market once again? Considering, you can't even copy/paste - probably not.
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I’m from KGS and I can’t study next to… a big building?
The parents of Karachi Grammar School are protesting against a high rise being built near their children's school. The
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This is the place you die (and we are the ones to kill you)
Three prisoners were yanked from their cells stripped, beaten and subjected to horrifying torture in Toba Tek Singh. Are we a society that allows prisoners to be treated this way?
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Dr Aafia, Faisal Shahzad are not Pakistan's heroes
We have personified mortals like Aafia Siddiqi and Faisal Shahzad into mythological figures simply because they were confronted by external forces - this is pseudo-patriotism.
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Didn’t you know everyone hated you?
An Indian school suspends 16 students for starting a Facebook thread containing vile remarks against a teacher. Are social networking sites becoming battlefields with no rules?
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The lonely death of the protest song
For a country plagued with war, terrorism, social uprisings and natural disasters, our music industry remains oblivious to the genre of topical songs.
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The ghairat brigade
They harass women, but when their victims speak out against them, they will be the first to say "What has this nation come to?" Welcome to the Ghairat Brigade.
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The sky falls in Islamabad
It was a quiet evening with my husband. I chatted while he paid no attention. That's when the earthquake hit and the media got another chance to spread fear and panic.
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Pakistan’s ‘Johnny Bravo’ returns
Musharraf’s claims that he can bring economic prosperity and peace to Pakistan are nothing but politicking - like other leaders his policies were a result of foreign pressure.
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Learning from China
We have to create a Pakistan similar to post-revolution China, and in order to do so, we must rid ourselves of feudalism.









