Monthly Archives: September 2010

Musharraf prepares to launch new Pakistani party | World news | The Guardian

The former Pakistani president General Pervez Musharraf said last night that he had “no regrets” about the security provided to Benazir Bhutto on the day of her assassination, as he prepared to officially launch his political comeback. Bhutto, a former … Continue reading

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Online Quiz Competition For Top 10 of Everything 2011 – Coming Soon!

After an overwhelming response at our outlets in Karachi – we are pleased to announce the ‘Top 10 of Everything Online Quiz Competition’ for all our facebook fans, blog viewers and website visitors. Watch this space for more details! And … Continue reading

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Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2009

It isn’t surprising that Stephenie Meyer made it to this list too. The top 10 titles most challenged titles of 2009 were: 1. TTYL; TTFN; L8R, G8R (series) by Lauren Myracle Reasons: Nudity, Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age … Continue reading

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From Baltistan to the Hindu Kush: A Road Trip, Continued by Jeremy Bernstein | NYRBlog | The New York Review of Books

I arrived in Pakistan in late September 1969, three weeks after setting out from Chamonix with my climbing friend Claude Jaccoux and his wife in a Land Rover Dormobile. We had driven across Turkey, Iran, and Afghanistan, and now I … Continue reading

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Barack Obama’s bitter divisions with generals revealed in new book | World news | The Guardian

Barack Obama was forced into a major damage-limitation exercise today after a new book by veteran investigative reporter Bob Woodward painted a startling portrait of the strained relations between the White House and top US generals. Divisions within the US … Continue reading

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