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By ZAID HAMID
A sea of people flooding the streets in a massive show of force carrying the Green and Crescent of Pakistan. How can we Pakistanis not be moved? Who says Kashmir issue is over and all that we Pakistanis can do is ‘peace talks’?   See what the New York Times says. Four million Kashmiris have turned the Indian cliché of [...]

By DAWN Newspaper
Finally, someone raises the subject in Islamabad. For more than a year, we have been lobbying for politicians and government officials to pay attention. There are clear signs that a low-intensity war has been declared againstPakistan from the western region. The objective is to destroy Pakistan from within without the need for a direct invasion and war. [...]

By Ahmed Quraishi
This is the first time that Pakistan does not have an ambassador in Beijing for several months now, which is an oddity. Washington and London were the first capitals where the Gilani government appointed ambassadors. That is supposedly understandable. The current government in Pakistan was possible only because of a political understanding – [...]

By Fatima Rizvi
Mrs. Rizvi is a Pakistani commentator based in Sehwan Sharif, Sindh.

Everyone in Washington and New Delhi mentions ISI when talking about terrorism. Really? What about the Israeli Mossad, the Indian RAW, and the American CIA? Who had links with Al-Qaeda all along? Certainly not the ISI. The fact is that ISI never had [...]

By: Nayyar Afaq
(Nayyar Afaq is a prominent student of the physics department at the Quaid-e-Azam University in Islamabad. Afaq has written a beautiful, classic poem dedicated to his political role model.)
(Pak1stanFirst.com Exclusive)
Have you ever studied Darwin’s “theory of Evolution”? For me, to some extent, it’s equally applicable to the international relations and all the conflicts. [...]

By Humayun Gauhar
Mr. Gauhar is a Pakistani commentator. This is an edited version of a longer column that appeared in Lahore’s The Nation newspaper.
If a nation is genetically strong, not only will it survive, it will also grow stronger and more vital through trial and error. If not, it will die anyway, whatever you do. [...]

By Koh Gui Qing (Reuters)
The Pakistani rupee marked a record closing low on Monday on investor fears persistent political tension and a weak economic outlook would drag on the currency in coming weeks.
Two traders said the rupee closed at 76.60/70 and 76.65 against the dollar. The rupee’s previous record-low closing of 76.60/65 was struck on [...]

By ASIF SHAHZAD (AP)
(Associated Press Writer Riaz Khan and Nahal Toosi contributed to this report from Islamabad.)
Pakistan’s ruling coalition collapsed Monday, torn apart by internal bickering just a week after Pervez Musharraf’s ouster and underscoring fears that the government would be distracted from its fight against Islamic extremists.
Militants have stepped up their campaign of [...]

Mr. Gulzar is a Pakistani college student based in Lahore studying LLB (Hons.).

As Musharraf was addressing the nation he must have regretted the wise suggestions that he had discarded, the incompetent politicians he had befriended and the blind trust he had put on a superpower whose leaders first labeled him ‘indispensable’ but following their [...]

By : Nayyar Afaq
Have you ever visited interior Sindh? If not, you are missing something remarkably great. It’s not an ordinary place; instead it’s the germ pool of the plasmodium of Democracy. No matter, if people there have no penny in pocket, doesn’t care if they have nothing to fill their bellies…….salute them…….they are ‘jiyalaas’-the [...]

By; Editor@PakistanFirst.com
Our sources just confirmed us that, Pakistan peoples Parties some CEC members are supporting Asif Ali Zardari for Presidency. Mulana Fazlur Rehman, ANP’s Asfandyar Wali and MQM have already shown acceptance. JUI is saying that we wont support a women to become President. Similarly, some members of PML N have shown reservations on the [...]

By Kamran Haider
(Additional reporting by Koh Gui Qing in Karachi)
Published by: Reuters.com
A day after President Pervez Musharraf quit, leaders of Pakistan’s fractious coalition government squabbled over the judiciary on Tuesday and a bomb killed 25 people, underscoring the challenges facing the nation.
Musharraf, the former army chief and key ally of the United States in its [...]