Editorial »

Everyone seems to be taking advantage of the ignorance, innocence and unawareness of the masses in Jammu and Kashmir. Exploitative elements have a free run in this land of unaccountability. And people in general too have given up the fervor of resistance to meekly compromise with the circumstances that are ubiquitous.

Response »

Dear Editor,
Kashmir society, by and large, remains conserved in certain notions that help it maintain the male dominance while as at certain levels women are quite free to chose and decide.

Opinion »

Ayaz Amir

As I have had occasion to mention before, Islamabad since its birth has been a city dedicated to nothing so much as intrigue and conspiracy. It has always been a dead city. But without the grist to its mills provided by conspiracy it would be deader still.
And March, no doubt because of the influence of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar—the one Shakespearean play most educated Pakistanis seem to have read—has a strange influence on the Pakistani mood. Ever since I entered the hallowed portals of journalism—and this was a good thirty years ago—I have seen March bringing forth its regular crop of stories about upheavals in the halls of government.