“We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction.” ~ Dennis...

By Fiza  Ali The author is in her final year of A Levels and an Editor at Ideas Evolved. All of it ain’t pretty. Let me begin by attempting to describe the phenomenon we’ve all come to love; Globalization. Globalization is a process whereby the developing and the developed world open up a...

By Naafeh Ali Dhillon It is has been said that every man has a price. I wonder what’s ours. Some weeks ago, I learned from a history teacher of mine that the Syrian government has requested the Pakistani government to help the royal family if the revolts break out in Saudi Arabia. I, being a...

By Hafsa Khwaja Omar To view part 1 of this post, click HERE In a ‘Factfile’ for Islamabad Policy Research Institute titled ‘UN Peacekeeping Missions and Pakistan’, it is stated: ‘Pakistan is contributing to UN peacekeeping since 1960 and is the single largest contributor of UN...

By Hafsa Khwaja Omer The following blog-post is the first of many parts of this write-up, that will be released over the next month to take the same agenda forward by adding something to the last post.   With the onset of Pakistan’s engagement in the War on Terror, the country...

By Ali Hassan, the Waterloo Warrior. The author has always wanted to undergo sniper training =P Chaos. That is the word that comes to our mind when we look at the condition of the world. The proliferation of crime in today’s world astonishes many a people but is it really a reason for us to...

By Ali Hassan, the Waterloo Warrior For those who have not seen it, it remains a place of mystique, and for those who have witnessed its elegant charm are still confounded and bedazzled. It is not the downtown that attracts the people there, neither any popular landmarks nor any...

by Ali Hassan Chicago O’ Hare Airport, Chicago, USA. I glanced down at my watch, and saw that there was still more than an hour to go till my next flight. I looked ahead at the queue; it seemed to be subsiding albeit very slowly. I keenly observed my surroundings, keeping an especially...

By Nauman Khalid This century’s testament is an oxymoron. Facts have been compromised. Reality has been altered. Truth has been fabricated. Or is that so? For if it was, you would simply call it a plain blatant lie and shun it. But you don’t. WHY? Knowledge of the truth was once a right;...

By Asiya Shoaib Ismail Education is a word so falsely used in Pakistan, that its real beauty has been tarnished. From its  true meaning of forming a person’s character, it has come to simply mean a bunch of grades written on a piece of paper, which are in no way reflective of a person’s...

How long had he been living there? How had he lived there undetected? How could he have lived undetected so close to the Pakistan Military Academy? Had the ISI provided asylum to him? The US probably went ahead with the plan without informing Pakistan- because they didn’t trust them. These...

When a US delegate approached a Chinese diplomat about Beijing’s uncompromising support for Pakistan, the Chinese reportedly responded with a heavily-loaded sarcastic remark: “Pakistan is our Israel”. I see something which both amuses me and bothers me in this episode. Firstly, well done...

I came across this video on youtube and needless to say, it hit the mark. Of course the message is not a new one; help Pakistanis in their hour of need. But the way this message was portrayed here is just brilliant. In addition to making a strong statement; this video does what many of us...

It’s made to look like such a blessing – the suspension of Quran burning. I think the way this issue is being televised and handled is pathetic and only outlines the hypocritical as well as double standard policies of the west. Can you imagine the west’s reaction towards free speech when...

Pastor Jones, has had his 60 seconds of fame. Latest reports say he called off the Burn Al Qur’an Day, though, conditional to the controversial mosque project near Ground Zero in New York to be relocated. Honestly, I stopped caring about what hypocrites like him say or do ever since that...

Yesterday; France, a secular European state, displayed the most unjustifiable (except by their own standards) and dangerous form of secular extremism when the bill to ban the Islamic Veil finally became a law. With 336 votes at the 577-seat National Assembly, the burqa ban bill received the...