Whoever killed her, snuffed out the last major representative of liberal/moderate voices in Pakistan By Anwaar Hussain I met Benazir. I spoke to her. Some twenty years back, she became the first woman elected to head a Muslim state and was feted as a sensational feminist symbol of modernity. She was only 35. People magazine [...]

On the worst carnage in Pakistan’s history in which close to eight hundred innocent people were killed and maimed By Anwaar Hussain Today I weep for this blood-smeared mournful land that you have become, marooned in the blazing desert, torn and tormented, plundered and ravaged, disfigured by the scars of myriad wounds, tears dropping from [...]

By Henry Porter  Two events last week make me wish I could have just a few words with American thinker Francis Fukuyama. The first was Time magazine giving Vladimir Putin the accolade of person of the year. The second was the purchase by the China Investment Corp of nearly 10 per cent of American bank [...]

Perhaps nothing is what it seems By Anwaar Hussain Bill Bryson’s ‘A Short History of Nearly Everything’ is a truly remarkable book. It is an ambitious attempt to decipher the mysteries of universe. Genuinely enthralling, it is a unique travelogue of science. Starting from the immensity of the universe, it beams us into the heart [...]

“We are riding alongside Angus and Malcolm Young on the ‘Highway to Hell.’” By Jason Miller We “Free World” capitalistic Westerners are a loathsome lot-or to put it more crudely, we suck. When one considers how degenerate we are from a collective standpoint, it is difficult to suppress intense feelings of disgust and contempt. There [...]

By Tom Chivers and Roger Highfield Scientists have come up with the radical suggestion that the universe’s end may come not with a bang but a standstill – that time could be literally running out and could, one day, stop altogether. The idea that time itself could cease to be in billions of years – [...]

*David Deming – Washington Times – December 19, 2007 TS Admin : Another view on global warming Al Gore says global warming is a planetary emergency. It is difficult to see how this can be so when record low temperatures are being set all over the world. In 2007, hundreds of people died, not from [...]