5 signs you’re a grown up now

Source: ET: The small moments before the milestone of ‘30’ that make you realise that you’re no longer a teenager. 1. You actually start avoiding junk food Double-decker burgers with cheese oozing out of them make you cringe rather than drool. You no longer trust your metabolism and on those […]

Jirga declares 13 girls vani in Dera Bugti

Source: ET The decision was taken to settle murder-related conflict between Bagirani and Shahwani tribes. PHOTO: FILE DERA BUGTI: A jirga in Dera Bugti, Balochistan declared 13 girls vani on Monday while settling a murder-related conflict between two tribes, Express News reported.  The conflict was between the Bagirani and Shahwani tribes […]

Polish Hardware on Mars

Source: The Warsaw Voice: NASA’s Curiosity rover, which successfully landed on Mars Aug. 6, is fitted with infrared detectors developed and manufactured by Poland’s Vigo System company. The Curiosity mission was one of the most important NASA projects in recent years. Curiosity, which weighs almost a ton, touched down on […]

Happy and clueless

Source: ET Out of the blue there comes news of hope. In a survey conducted by the till-now-unknown New Economics Foundation, we are told that Pakistan ranked 16th among 151 countries of the world on the Happy Planet Index (HPI) 2012, beating India and the United States, which ranked 32nd […]

Syria widens Hezbollah’s contradictions

STORY SUMMARY Reports that a Hezbollah member, Ali Hussein Nassif, was killed in Syria last week, along with other party members, should not surprise us. As Hezbollah’s role in Syria becomes clearer, and as the party continues to contribute to the Assad regime’s viciousness, its vulnerabilities will increase. However, the […]

In the Midst of Raging Violence

Huff Post: by Sophia Khan. I wept this morning, the tears of a half-Pakistani American whose human brethren around the globe are once more catching fire and burning each other down. Caught between two worlds, I have always found myself speaking on behalf of a group I felt ill-equipped to […]