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		<title>Bare necessities</title>
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By Aroosa Masroor      Dawn, 04 Dec, 2009 
DADU: Mehak Essa is content that she can now concentrate on her studies. Until two months ago, she spent most of her time calculating the minutes that would be wasted in walking all the way to her relative’s house each time she wanted to use a toilet. But now [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pakteahouse.wordpress.com&blog=1232634&post=6826&subd=pakteahouse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Another View On Obama&#8217;s Speech in Kabul</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dov S. Zakheim       FP 03 Dec, 2009
Kabul has changed in many ways since I was last here in early 2004. Traffic is impossible at rush hour; there are many more signs in English; more shops are open. And the city has become a military citadel &#8212; the military bases have grown, security precautions have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pakteahouse.wordpress.com&blog=1232634&post=6822&subd=pakteahouse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Afghan Policy and Pakistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bilal Qureshi
So far, in 2009 alone, 9000 Pakistanis have died in Pakistan because of terrorism – that is bombings, suicide attacks and other acts of extreme violence against Pakistan, and Pakistani society by the Taliban and Al-Qaeda. Yes, 9000 (nine thousand) Pakistanis have died because of terrorism in 2009 alone. This terrorism according to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pakteahouse.wordpress.com&blog=1232634&post=6818&subd=pakteahouse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What We Have Done to Democracy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arundhati Roy’s New Book Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers Looks at What We Have Done to Democracy
Written by Al Huebner     Cross-Post from Toward Freedom 
The essays in this new book by the brilliant Indian writer Arundhati Roy cover topics that range from the attack on the Indian Parliament to the Armenian genocide, and the terrorist [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pakteahouse.wordpress.com&blog=1232634&post=6802&subd=pakteahouse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is it really India?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Pervez Hoodbhoy      Dawn, 28 Nov, 2009
FOREIGN Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi says that Pakistan is “compiling hard evidence of India’s involvement” in terrorist attacks on Pakistan’s public and its armed forces.
If he and the interior minister are correct then we must conclude that the Indians are psychotics possessed with a death wish, or are perhaps [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pakteahouse.wordpress.com&blog=1232634&post=6799&subd=pakteahouse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My compatriots&#8217; vote to ban minarets is fuelled by fear</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Swiss have voted not against towers, but Muslims. Across Europe, we must stand up to the flame-fanning populists
By Tariq Ramadan    guardian.co.uk, Sunday 29 November 2009
It wasn&#8217;t meant to go this way. For months we had been told that the efforts to ban the construction of minarets in Switzerland were doomed. The last surveys suggested [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pakteahouse.wordpress.com&blog=1232634&post=6796&subd=pakteahouse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Has Pakistan Arrived?</title>
		<link>http://pakteahouse.wordpress.com/2009/12/02/has-pakistan-come/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Brigadier (ret) Simon Samson Sharaf
In an emotional and controversial address to his constituency, the President of Pakistan, Mr. Asif Ali Zardari referred to the country as Sindhu Desh. In his fiery and reactive speech, this was perhaps the only silver lining. Deliberately or otherwise, he had touched a very sensitive issue of nationhood.
The politicians of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pakteahouse.wordpress.com&blog=1232634&post=6807&subd=pakteahouse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan&#8217;s Zardari holds off his political foes &#8212; for now</title>
		<link>http://pakteahouse.wordpress.com/2009/12/02/pakistans-zardari-holds-off-his-political-foes-for-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President gives up some powers, faces pressure to relinquish more

By Pamela Constable Washington Post Foreign Service Tuesday, December 1, 2009
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN &#8212; President Asif Ali Zardari, fighting to keep his job amid pressure from opponents in the media, the courts, the Parliament and the military, appears to have reasserted his grip on the presidency for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pakteahouse.wordpress.com&blog=1232634&post=6792&subd=pakteahouse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We At PTH Stand By Kamran Shafi</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yasserlatifhamdani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kamran Shafi is a senior journalist of fierce independence.   He has reported a rather disturbing incident in his column in Dawn.   We at PTH stand by him and condemn such incidents of intimidation and harrassment against journalists and writers and wish him best of luck.  Here is his article:
So then, December is upon us, another year [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pakteahouse.wordpress.com&blog=1232634&post=6805&subd=pakteahouse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BONDHUS MAKE MY QURBANI A BONANZA IN RIYADH!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:59:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PTH has received this contribution from Faiz al-Najdi on the sacrifice rites. Hope the readers enjoy this account. Raza Rumi
For Desis Qurbani has never been an exciting affair in Saudi Arabia. For simple reason and it is that the Desis are expected to follow some strict rules vis-à-vis Qurbani here. They cannot do the Qurbani [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pakteahouse.wordpress.com&blog=1232634&post=6784&subd=pakteahouse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Man Who Forged An Interview: Shorish Kashmiri&#8217;s Maulana Azad Hoax</title>
		<link>http://pakteahouse.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/the-man-who-forged-an-interview-shorish-kashmiris-maulana-azad-hoax/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:03:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yasserlatifhamdani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Yasser Latif Hamdani
Some people believe that if you repeat a lie enough times it becomes the truth. Making the rounds on the internet these days is a “suddenly discovered” interview of Maulana Azad which he allegedly gave to Agha Shorish Kashmiri of Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam in April 1946.
Well I hate to break it to all of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pakteahouse.wordpress.com&blog=1232634&post=6780&subd=pakteahouse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Halal Media or Free Media?</title>
		<link>http://pakteahouse.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/halal-media-or-free-media/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:15:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raza Rumi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ahmad Nadeem Gehla
Over the last weeks, television screens have broadcasted the growing and angry media sentiment against government over ban on a talk show of a private TV channel by Dubai authorities. Freedom of expression denotes not only freedom of verbal speech but any act of seeking, receiving and delivering information or ideas.  Freedom of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pakteahouse.wordpress.com&blog=1232634&post=6777&subd=pakteahouse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistani Rock Comes of Age</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zia Ahmad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Zia Ahmad
Summer 1995
The world was young, so was I. Still in my teens, my head ran on a brew of boundless enthusiasm and hope for tomorrow. The teenage optimism extended itself to Pakistani pop bands I was listening to back in the day: the MCC (Music Channel Charts) stable bands, Pepsi Top of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pakteahouse.wordpress.com&blog=1232634&post=6770&subd=pakteahouse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are sections of Pakistani media destabilising democracy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raza Rumi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bilal Qureshi has contributed this piece for PTH. We do not necessarily agree with all the contents of this article but the issue is important enough to be debated. (RR &#8211; ed PTH)
Journalism 101, that is, the very first lesson of journalism is impartiality. In other words, journalists, at least in civilized societies don’t take [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pakteahouse.wordpress.com&blog=1232634&post=6766&subd=pakteahouse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Claim: Pentagon tried to ‘intimidate’ journo covering Blackwater</title>
		<link>http://pakteahouse.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/claim-pentagon-tried-to-%e2%80%98intimidate%e2%80%99-journo-covering-blackwater/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
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By Daniel Tencer
Thursday, November 26th, 2009 &#8212; 9:22 pm








The office of Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the highest-ranking soldier in the US, tried to intimidate a reporter working on a story about security contractor Blackwater&#8217;s operations in Pakistan, the reporter claims.
Jeremy Scahill &#8212; whose story alleging secret assassination [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pakteahouse.wordpress.com&blog=1232634&post=6756&subd=pakteahouse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Balochistan: too small an olive branch</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:38:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cross Post from www.opendemocracy.net
By Qurratulain Zaman, 27 November 2009
“They ordered me to rape her. She was so thin and was crying when they brought her in the room. I was terrified to look at her, as I thought she was a spy or an agent”, says Munir Mengal, a 33- year- old Baloch, living in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pakteahouse.wordpress.com&blog=1232634&post=6761&subd=pakteahouse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Tale of two Stories</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:26:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cyril Almeida
Cross Post from www.dawn.com and www.cyrilalmeida.com
&#160;
MILITARY men have been up to some very bad things, we’ve learned this week. But the very different reactions to two seemingly unrelated stories in the media tell us at least one thing: things aren’t going to get better any time soon.
First, over to Jeremy Scahill, writing in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pakteahouse.wordpress.com&blog=1232634&post=6751&subd=pakteahouse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Extracting Political Decisions from the Judiciary in Pakistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:14:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ahmed Nadeem Gahla
A study of transformation from military dictatorship to democracy around the world would reveal that there are two possible ways. Either it is achieved through a popular revolution or by negotiations between political forces and dictators.
The former invariably demolishes the entire system and mostly involves bloodshed putting a new system in place [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pakteahouse.wordpress.com&blog=1232634&post=6746&subd=pakteahouse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Marking 26/11&#8230; A Letter To Our Neighbors</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:21:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yasserlatifhamdani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Indian friend,
I am sorry for the tardiness in marking 26/11.   It was not deliberate but as we fight daily battles with terrorism, it is not easy to tell what date it is.  Don&#8217;t consider this letter a sign of weakness because I am a member of proud nation which will one day prove its [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pakteahouse.wordpress.com&blog=1232634&post=6743&subd=pakteahouse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Maulana Azad&#8217;s interview given to Shorish Kashmiri</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raza Rumi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Raza Rumi
I was intrigued by this interview of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad given to the famous journalist Shorish Kashmiri for a Lahore based Urdu magazine, Chattan, in April 1946.  This interesting document has been discovered and translated by a former Indian minister Arif Mohammad Khan. Covert Magazine and newageIslam website have recently published it. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pakteahouse.wordpress.com&blog=1232634&post=6737&subd=pakteahouse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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