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Flood Relief: Day 20 - It's Not Pakistan, it is Perishanistan

“It is not Pakistan, it is Perishanistan”
Perishan – Sadness
Perishanistan – The land of sadness

I was watching the pictures of the flood on the TV with my colleague Abdul Wahab in the first few days of ...

Book Review: Bridging Partition: People’s Initiatives for Peace Between India and Pakistan

They have been locked in a near permanent state of confrontation for six decades, stopping only to make feeble overtures of peace to pacify onlookers. These 63-year-olds have great reserves of animosi...

So, Why Have You Got a Face On?!

I toss and turn for about 20 minutes, feeling thoroughly worn out, I finally feel my eyelids getting heavier, and eventually closing. And then that sound goes again, “ Pp-aaa, pp-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, ...

A Short Essay on Why I Write

I suppose this beginning sentence marks a very unusual start to this attempted essay because form the onset I shall admit I have no idea why I write. Yes I suppose some small naive part of me thinks b...

Flood Relief: Day 12: Of Life and Death (Disturbing Images)

Dear readers,

Our project is bursting into life. From an unlikely trio we have now become an eclectic mix of international
volunteers and local staff. Our numbers now exceed over 20 and the complexity o...

Poem: Guilt of a Doctor

HUMANS NEVER FLY,
NOR DO I!
BUT IT SEEMS TO ME,
AND I DO NOT KNOW WHY?
THAT ON THE ENDLESS SKY
A FLIGHT SO HIGH
I HAVE SEEN,THE SAME WHITE BEAM
THAT ONCE I SAW IN MY DREAM
IT SEEMED LIKE A SOUL
AND ITS PLEA AN... Read more...

Evading Failure

A state is said to have failed if it cannot provide minimum social safeguards, such as peace, order and security. Other features regarded as indicative of a state's failure include its inability to me... Read more...
Book Review: Building Social Business

Book Review: Building Social Business

In the early 1970s when an academician from a third world country came across the victims of a moneylender, he did what good Samaritans usually do in such circumstances: he took charge, paid off their... Read more...

The Best NGO in Pakistan: Meet the Team!

Dear readers,

This post is dedicated to the best NGO team in Pakistan in my opinion, the Doctors Worldwide team.

The last 48 hours have posed the greatest challenges and headaches to me since I arrived ...

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EXCLUSIVE: Video Footage of Zardari Protest, Birmingham

EXCLUSIVE: Video Footage of Zardari Protest, Birmingham

Rally Pakistan brings you exclusive video-footage insight in to the protest that took place against Asif Ali Zardari in Birmingham on 7 th August 2010. While film crews recorded activities inside, Rally Paki...

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Aman Ki Asha

Aman Ki Asha

'Aman-ki-Asha" is a campaign by the Time of India and the Jang group of Pakistan.  By harnessing print and web news media towards a peace project between the two nations, peace, seems "stubbornly...

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Pakistan's Flood Victims are in Desperate need of Aid

Pakistan's Flood Victims are in Desperate need of Aid

The difficult roads make it a longer and more tiring journey than it should have been. It is still the early hours of the morning and were not it not for the blasting AC in the car, we too would have ...

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PETITION: Allow Dr. Zakir Naik Entry to the UK

PETITION: Allow Dr. Zakir Naik Entry to the UK

The UK Home Office has banned the renowned Islamic scholar Dr. Zakir Naik from entry into the UK . Dr. Naik was arriving to tour the UK giving speeches on topics including ‘Freedom of Expression’. The Hom...

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