It was a Sunday morning few months letter. I had a newspaper in my hand and discussing with a friend on employment of engineers in Pakistan. My friend Engr. J pointing out and highlighting the latest jobs in paper. At a moment he stopped and asked me one question that “Is University name matters?” We had a long debate on...
The Tale Of A Taliban Held Prisoner
Noor Ahmad 26-year-old resident of southern Helmand province who was released after 45 days from an Afghan Taliban prison in the southern. Pakistani city of Quetta, described the period the most disturbing in his life as he lost his left arm to frequent injections. “It was around one and a half month ago when I met Afghan Taliban for the first...
Niaz Bibi, 16, becomes a boy, now named Enamullah
In an Afghan village, Paloso Naw of Kunar Province, the life of a 16-year-old girl changed forever; when the oldest daughter of a 12-sister-family became a boy. Niaz Bibi, now named Enamullah, says it was nearly 2 years ago when she first realized that some ‘changes’ were taking place inside her, in her body structure. The inevitable happened and eventually...
NGO leader forced to take asylum in Nepal
HYDERABAD: An NGO leader and head of Institute for Social Movements Pakistan Syed Zulfiqar Shah has said that he had taken asylum in Nepal through UNHCR out of harassment of state agencies of Pakistan. But in Nepalese town of Satobedo where he was residing there also was chased by agencies men due to which he had to shift his family...
Indian prisoners of war holed till death in Pakistan
Capturing prisoners of war (POW) is as old as man kind and warfare. In the earliest history, men captured used to be either slaughtered or made slaves. The captured women and children were more likely to be spared but many times the purpose to capture women as concubines for sex, sexual abuse and pleasure. The first recorded usage of the...
When the Real Barbie meets Girl Anime
Valeria Lukyanova Real Barbie Doll meets Anastasiya Shpagina Girl Anime Want to look like every feature Barbie, where a damsel straight out of an animated, such are the dreams respective Real Barbie Girl Anime. And when the two women meet … and scary! Not that we would be made to try to understand what could push a girl to want...
Convoy of Afghan vice president Mohammad Karim Khalili’s guards attacked
CHARIKAR (INP): A convoy of the guards of Afghanistan 2nd Vice-President Mohammad Karim Khalili came under militant attack in the Sheikh Ali district of central Parwan province on Sunday, officials said. The insurgents fired with RPG and 82-mm artillery at the convoy in the Tangi Lali area of the district at 10am, the town’s administrative head, Noor Aqa Sami, told...
CIA behind attack on Malala; Attackers are in Afghanistan: Royal News
LAHORE: The United States of America was behind the attack on 14-year-old Malala Yousufzai, who was awarded the National Peace Prize, Royal News reported on Sunday. Taliban militants who attacked Malala Yousefzai believe to be in Afghanistan, TV channel reported. It becomes more and more clear that the USA is involved in the attack on Malala Yousefzai to continue drone...
Activist Rachel Corrie’s parents accept award on daughter’s behalf
The parents of peace activist Rachel Corrie accepted the 2012 LennonOno Grant for Peace by Yoko Ono on behalf of their daughter in Iceland. At a ceremony in New York last month, three performers with the Russian band Pussy Riot, who remain imprisoned for their stand for freedom of speech and expression, also received the LennonOno award. Cindy Corrie, Rachel’s...
Real-life anime girl, Anastasiya Shpagina’s bizarre make-up tutorial
by Sarah B. Weir Still deciding on this year’s Halloween costume? Check out this flower fairy makeup tutorial by Anastasiya Shpagina (a.k.a Fukkacumi), from Ukraine. The 19-year-old hair stylist uses extreme makeup techniques and costumes to transform herself into a real-life anime character. “I’m not a like a doll, a doll is like me,” she writes on her vk.com (a...