Pakistan

Barefooted workers would take

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Barefooted workers would take apart, bit by bit, the dying ships with their bare hands, shipyard in Gaddani, Pakistan. On their shoulders, workers bore great metal plates to their destination. People complain about their crappy lives working in an air conditioned work place, imagine having this as your only option in life. G.M.B. Akash

There are nuclear weapons

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There are nuclear weapons in China, Iran, Korea and Pakistan. It wouldn’t take much to send a couple of warheads off on this planet somewhere that would cause a lot of environmental damage, then if you have got someone who wants to retaliate you have real problems. Edward James Olmos

The movement of Pakistan

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The movement of Pakistan which the Quaid-e-Azam launched was ethical in inspiration and ideological in content. The story of this movement is a story of the ideals of equality, fraternity and social and economic justice struggling against the forces of domination, exploitation, intolerance and tyranny. Fatima Jinnah

However, I think we

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However, I think we have to go back to the American bogeyman – we have to understand that this is a country which currently allows American drones to fly over our skies and bomb our people on an almost weekly basis, this is a country that survives on American aid in the billions. Today’s headline … Read more

Pakistan is, I always

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Pakistan is, I always feel, hopeful. You know, our system of government is not, and the system of foreign policy whereby we do whatever is asked of us as long as the price is right only proves to fundamentalist outfits and to militant groups that when we talk of things like democracy, when we talk … Read more

Well, I do write

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Well, I do write on political and social issues and the idea that one shouldn’t – or the idea that we should censor ourselves – doesn’t really work for me because it would be doing the government’s job for them. And I’m not interested in doing that. I think what we need very much in … Read more