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January 28th, 2008 Source: Dawn Op-Ed by Shahzad Roy When I was 10 years old, I saw on the nine o'clock news on PTV a woman with a dupatta draped round her head saying, "Pakistan tareekh kay aik naazuk mor say guzar raha hai." Then I turned 20 and again saw a woman, this time not wearing a dupatta on her head, saying with eloquence on the nine o'clock news, "Pakistan tareekh kay aik naazuk mor say guzar raha hai". Déjà vu… why? I tried to analyse the situation to find out how come Pakistan is still stuck at the naazuk mor even after the passage of many long years. I reached the conclusion that 50 per cent of our knowledge lies in asking the right question. Government functionaries, intelligentsia, armed forces, critics, human rights activists and, for that matter, all stakeholders ask questions. But they end up slinging mud at each other, for the simple reason that the questions they ask are never right in the first place. The question usually asked is:...

Talat Masood (Dec 5) Unfortunately, whenever a terrorist attack takes place, the Muslim community of India also comes under pressure, despite its unflinching loyalty to the state. There is always a lingering fear that they may once again be subjected to communal violence similar to the Gujarat pogrom The catastrophic terrorist attacks on multiple targets in Mumbai have elevated the war on terror to alarmingly dangerous proportions, with serious global ramifications, especially for Pakistan . As an immediate response, India, true to its past , has launched a massive campaign accusing Pakistan of complicity in these ghastly attacks. Despite Islamabad's full assurance of cooperation, and its reasonable demand that India provide evidence so that Pakistani authorities can proceed against suspects , India continues to make allegations, and has demanded that Pakistan hand over twenty of its most wanted fugitives . Pakistan has responded, as has always been the case, by informing India th...