Source: Dr. Aafia Siddiqui speaks out Posted by Khurram Ali Shafique also managing About Aafia Blog At last a word has come out from Dr. Aafia Siddiqui herself about her travails. On Tuesday, October 6, four Pakistani senators met her in Texas but unfortunately their account has not been properly covered in many news reports. …
Category Archive: International
Sep
25
2008
Pakistan’s president tells Palin she’s ‘gorgeous’
I have no words to express my disgust over this piece of news. Does this moron not realize that he is representing Pakistan at an international level in the capacity of the President of Pakistan and its 160 million Pakistanis? Or maybe its just his “vadera” background which took over him… NEW YORK (CNN) — …
Sep
16
2008
Pakistan’s Contribution to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
Large Hadron Collider (LHC – not to be confused with Lahore High Court in anyway) is a Physicist’s dream come true. Being world’s biggest science apparatus ever built this is a show of science on how far have we come to in our mental and analytical evolution. Today with the LHC we are at brink …
Sep
14
2008
The World’s Top 10 Public Intellectuals are Muslims
A friend of mine happened to forward this ranking list a few days back and I was not only genuinely surprised but proud as well to learn that the top 10 ranking individuals are all muslims. Do note that Aitzaz Ahsan is listed at number 5! Do note that the list was created after nominations …
Aug
17
2008
Voices from the most dangerous nation on earth
Really? If this is what people from the West believe Pakistan is all about, they are definitely misguided. by Adrienne Hyat Since my recent return from a lengthy stay in Pakistan, I’ve been asked numerous times about my safety while I was there. My standard reply is something like, “It was a tumultuous year–and I …













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