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September 2010′s B-side has an almost singular focus, that is on the jugular vein of Pakistan, Kashmir. Two articles are shared with readers, the first brings home the brutal state repression that Indian has unleashed in recent months whilst the second is forward-looking and looks at how the Kashmir dispute can be resolved. The final article [...]

The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called the recent floods in Pakistan “the worst natural disaster the United Nations has responded to in its 65-year history’. The floods have devastated agriculture, infrastructure and the economy and has taken Pakistan back decades. This paper argues that the response to these unprecedented floods by world governments has [...]

Courtesy: Frontline Kashmir The above image is the dreaded writing on the wall that India has feared since its occupation of Kashmir. In the last few months the brutal repression of the Kashmiri people has led to the death of 100 people, yet the Kashmir intifada is alive and kicking, the street is speaking  and promising that it will [...]

The fourth death anniversary of Nawab Akbar Bugti was marked on 26 August as a black day across Balochistan. Dark shadows reigned supreme then and still do it seems, as demonstrated recently during Balochistan’s devastating floods. The monsoon floods that have devastated Pakistan have devastated Balochistan equally with much of Balochistan under water and in [...]

Angelina Jolie is much liked at OP and across Pakistan for her unstinting support of Pakistan as evidenced in previous posts here. Angelina Jolie has recently visited Pakistan for the fourth time and met many people in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa where she heard the harrowing stories of the flooded people of Pakistan. Readers may know that Angelina Jolie has [...]

Amidst the national furore over calls for martial law by Altaf Hussain of recent days as well as the cricket corruption allegations, I fear Pakistan is at present digressing as a whole and losing somewhat its essential focus on the devastating floods and its victims. Thus this very short post includes three different videos that remind [...]