Category: Pakistan
Historically speaking, real economic development requires a certain set of socio-political conditions to happen. Crucially, it almost always happens in small bursts, preceding and followed by periods of tranquility, …
Can youth activism drive meaningful political change in Pakistan? The short answer to that is maybe, with a few caveats. Is the incumbent establishment well-entrenched and internationally supported? Are …
The Abbottabad raid on Sunday night had a surprisingly unintended outcome – apart from the usual debate on Pakistan’s ‘problems’ and the moral right (or lack thereof) of the …
Please give what you can to help your country. You can get started with this Flood Relief effort. An unusually wet summer. Poor infrastructure, unable to deal with too …
Saturday’s TEDxLahore was history in the making. It’s a bold claim to make – history is made every single day by men and women committed to doing things instead …
PTCL’s wireless broadband solution, PTCL Evo, offers faster connectivity than most DSL connections here in Pakistan can offer. Here’s what the official website says: Evo Wireless Broadband offers up …
The Pakistani online community are a curious bunch. The IRC / forum / gaming vets stay underground, leading true double lives on and off line. The lone entrepreneurs plough …
Thursday, 9 October 2008. Another bomb went off in Islamabad today, this time hitting the Anti-Terrorism Wing in the Police Headquarters. Where was everyone? The other end of the …
Pervez Musharraf is on TV right now, giving a speech in which he’s resigned from office. I won’t go into details of what he’s saying because it’s not important. …
Update: The offending video has since been removed and Youtube has now been unblocked. Good work all around. Youtube.com is inaccessible from several ISPs here in Pakistan and there …