1963. Thich Quang Duc, the Buddhist priest in Southern Vietnam , burns himself to death protesting the government’s torture policy against priests. Thich Quang Dug never made a sound or moved while he was burning
June 8, 2007
June 6, 2007
PEMRA Ordinance=Killing Freedom
General Pervez Mushraf issued the revised PEMRA Ordinanc on June 4th.
according to this ordinance Media has been asphyxiatiated because the General thought that media enjoyed more freedom than his demands.
the ordinance has erased the much vaunted slogans of Media freedom in pakistan that the present goverment has been boasting about for years now.
June 5, 2007
Wanting a Meal
Pulitzer Prize winning photo taken in 1991 during the Sudan famine,
The vulture is waiting for the child to die so that it can eat him.
This picture shocked the whole world. No one knows what happened to the child, including the photographer ‘Kevin Carter’ left the place as soon as the photograph was taken… Three months later he committed suicide due to depression
June 4, 2007
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
‘Mohsin Hamid’s masterful short novel… works as a poignant love story, a powerful dissection of what has turned so many people against the world’s superpower, and as a thriller that subtly ratchets up the nerve-jangling tension towards an explosive ending.
’9/11… most novels have only scratched the surface… The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a glorious exception to this rule. Its success depends not just on sympathy and thought, but also on this young novelist’s deftness.
A must read novel.
Of Love and demons
to my surprise,today i saw an article in THE NEWS written by FATIMA BHUTTO.in the article titled “of love and other demons” the author is expressing her liberal views….
first of all i must appreceait her for such a wonderfull article because in pakistan people like her are very few who stand for liberalism.
but be carefull fatima u have chosen a very hard way in this jungle we call our FREE LAND.
