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My visit to LOC in Bhimber by Dr Shabir Choudhry
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Posted By:
drshabir
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9/Nov/2010
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District Bhimber is strategically important town situated near border of Pakistan and LOC. It has historic value, yet it is often neglected in political matters. Moghal Kings and other royal families used this route to Srinagar for holiday. Parts of District Bhimber, especially northern parts are mountainous, but its southern parts are plain. I come from a village called Nakker Shamali near Panjer
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Targeted Killing by Ardeshir Cowasjee
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Posted By:
Ardeshir_Cowasjee
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8/Nov/2010
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AT the peak of sectarian targeted killings in Belfast in the 1970s, an Irishman found himself accosted on a dark street one night by a group of armed men. They asked, “Are you Catholic or Protestant?” Not sure of the leanings of his inquisitors, the Irishman decided to play it safe, “I am an atheist!” he declared. “Ah, yes,” came the reply, “but are you a Catholic atheist or a Protestant atheist?”
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Works of Allama Mashriqi’s Grandson, Nasim Yousaf
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Posted By:
Infomashriqi
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8/Nov/2010
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Pakistan and India’s history is distorted, as it has been dictated by the ruling class. Allama Mashriqi’s grandson (Nasim Yousaf), a historian and scholar, has committed himself to correcting the history of the Indian sub-continent. Mr. Yousaf has written extensively on Mashriqi and has presented his papers at scholarly conferences in the USA. His piece entitled India's Partition in the Face of Op
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Hollowness of the system by DJ Mathal
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Posted By:
Mathal
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8/Nov/2010
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While introducing the provincial set-up in Gilgit-Baltistan, Islamabad had assured the local, non-local people as well as the international community that the new system would compensate for the slavery and deprivation the people of the region had gone through during the last 63 years. Not only that, the local people would also enjoy self rule and autonomy and the package would be a giant leap for
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Whose Army ? by Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)
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Posted By:
Riaz
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8/Nov/2010
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PM Gilani’s boastful claim of the army being his own reminds me of my batman of the 50s (late) Sepoy Ahmed Hussain, a soldier who took real pride in his profession. The batmen then were there to only look after the uniform of the officer and not do the household chores like the later years. While dealing with the tailors and dhobis he often used to remind them haughtily that he was not a sepoy of
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