By Ayaz Amir
Times may be hard but why add to the sum of national misery? Some of our afflictions, like the economic downturn and the war raging along the Afghan frontier, may be beyond anyone’s control. But some are entirely self-created.
We are not a police state in the political sense of the term. This is [...]

A Truth Spring exclusive
By Pervaiz Alam*
The other day I was driving on one of Islamabad’s roads when I saw a black Mercedes slightly bumping into a car moving ahead. Four young men alighted from that car, rushed to the Mercedes, dragged out the young driver and started beating him, calling him a drunkard. Suddenly, about [...]

By Anwar Hussain
This is a fascinating story so behold.

Sultan Fateh Ali Tipu, also known as the Tiger of Mysore, was the ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore in India. His full name was Sultan Fateh Ali Khan Shahab or Tipu Saheb Tipu Sultan. He was not just a ruler but also a scholar, a [...]

By Joe Palmer
East Africa: In 1966 the U S Agency for International Development built a residential school for the training of teachers in Somalia near the city of Afgoi on the Shabelle River a dozen miles inland from the capital city, Mogadishu. The construction contract was given to a company in Nairobi, Kenya. There are [...]

TS Note: On this day, in 2007, the most momentous political assassination of our time claimed the life of Benazir Bhutto and plunged a nation into mourning. The article below was written in the aftermath of that ominous event. Here it is once again on her first death anniversary.
Whoever killed her, snuffed out the last [...]

The Economist
Think of the solitude felt by Marie Smith before she died earlier this year in her native Alaska, at 89. She was the last person who knew the language of the Eyak people as a mother-tongue. Or imagine Ned Mandrell, who died in 1974-he was the last native speaker of Manx, similar to Irish [...]

By *Sara Hall
The murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya on 7 October 2006 has been remembered all over the world during the last week. Amnesty International believes that Politkovskaya was killed because of her work as a journalist. The trial of three men accused of her murder is set to start on 15 October [...]