Hunger knows No Friend but its Feeder
While a minority, born with a silver spoon living in their palatial havelis, luxurious farm houses and bungalows, can talk about the problems being faced by the country such as fake degrees, terrorism, the presidency and target killings on their dinner tables, with generators on standby and water tankers at their disposal, there are millions [...]
Pakistans Future woes maybe linked to exponential birthrate – 550 Million by 2060
A report by the Foreign Policy Magazine shows an interesting trend to the global birth trends in the world The study purports that economic stability contributes to a lower population growth and conversely instability and poverty catapults the birth rate to exponential proportions. As a country transitions from poverty to affluence, birthrates plunge—from six or [...]
Victims of Feudalism on Hungerstrike – 18-days [and counting]
Posted via the Peoples Resistance Network Day and night for the past eighteen days, anywhere from a dozen to two dozen farmers from a village in Sanghar have been gathered outside the Karachi Press Club, protesting the violent excesses of a neighboring feudal who has been eyeing their land–his name is Varyaam Faqeer, an ex-MPA [...]
The IMF Trap
Guest post by A.H.Kalwar of Pakistion Blog Russia is the largest borrower from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The initial objective and promises by IMF were to quickly bail Russia out of an economic crises, and throw it back on track. Today Russia’s debts to the IMF are so big that the only way to [...]
Suicide Note
Guest Post by Asim Khan Part 1: The Introduction I am an outsider A view from inside I will kill Myself And my own Two angels All that existed For me and them To return To perfection; As the sun rises tomorrow! Part 2: THE GOLDEN BRIDGE As life walks past, Upon this golden bridge, [...]
Blog Action Day 2008: POVERTY
In barely 40 odd days the blogger community throughout the world will rally together in one voice attempting to redirect the world’s attention towards an all important issue of poverty. Pakistan is undoubtedly has a huge issue of poverty and we must take this opportunity to bring forth our issues in a bugway. I would [...]
