Posted By Zaheerul Hassan Dear Mr. Obama! Don’t belie the hopes of the ecstatic world, When you sit on the mighty American throne; Try to change your country into a sacred place, Make it shine with piety, as once it shone. I know you inherit the legacy of a devil, Whose hands are full of ravages and blood; Who exulted over the wails and shrieks, Who ruined the peace like a miserable flood. Have an intent ga ...

By Jude Fernando The outcome of the United States Presidential elections is too close to call. Yet, three presidential debates reinforced the perception among informed voters that Mitt Romney is both a weak and most unpredictable candidate.  He does not grasp the complexities of the economy—a failing he obscures by refusing to be clear about his policies. His continual self-contradiction and his appeal to t ...

CHHIPA WELFARE ASSOCIATION (Regd.) Chhipa Head Office Opp:FTCBridge, Shahrah-e-Faisal, Karachi-74400Pakistan. Phone : 0092-21-111-111-134   Fax : 0092-21-111-111-136 Website : www.chhipa.org     E-mail : info@chhipa.org Ref: CWA/HO-282                                  Date: 04-11-2012 Karachi: November 04.  Eminent human rights activist and Patron-in-Chief of the Chhipa Welfare Association (CWA) Ramzan Chhi ...

 By Zaheerul Hassan An Australian lawmaker has tabled in Parliament a petition seeking that the horrific violence that took place in November 1984 in India following the assassination of prime minister Indira Gandhi be recognised as genocide against the Sikh community. At least 3,000 Sikhs were killed in three days in the Indian capital New Delhi following the killing of Indira Gandhi on Oct 31, 1984 by her ...

Asif Haroon Raja Afghanistan shares 1400 km border with Pakistan. Apart from geographic contiguity, 42% Pashtuns of 28 million population of Afghanistan share religious, ethnic, linguistic and cultural ties with 15.2 million Pashtuns of 174 million population of Pakistan. Pashtuns living in close vicinity of Durand Line have blood relations and the border line has never acted as a barrier in their cross bor ...

By Sajjad Shaukat [caption id="attachment_3455" align="alignright" width="244"] Hanna lake snow Quetta[/caption] After taking cognisance of the general pardon announced by the Pakistan government for the Baloch separatist leaders, and favaourable hearings of the  Supreme Court of Pakistan about the missing persons of the province of Balochistan, holding Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Military Intelligen ...

By Anna Louie Sussman and Michael Erman [caption id="attachment_3445" align="alignright" width="450"] Hurricane destroyed U.S.[/caption] NEW YORK | Tue Oct 30, 2012 8:47am EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - Millions of people across the eastern United States awoke on Tuesday to scenes of destruction wrought by monster storm Sandy, which knocked out power to huge swathes of the nation's most densely populated region, ...

Hurricane Sandy cannot be attributed to climate change, but warming does mean there is more moisture in the atmosphere. As I write this, Hurricane Sandy's minimum central pressure has dropped to a stunning 940 millibars, meaning that air is rising in this storm in a way similar to a Category 4 hurricane. Sandy is strengthening as it approaches an East Coast landfall tonight—even as the storm also undergoes ...