Posted by Amber Rahim Shamsi Dawn.com Rioting broke out between rival parties Biryani Ittehad-Sindhi [BI(S)] group and Pakistan Pulao Party (PPP) in Karachi’s Boating Basin locality on Wednesday night, injuring several. The injured  were shifted to the Beemar hospital in Clifton and are being treated for burns and bruises caused by flying masala, hot chicken stock, and handis. Police officials say they have arrested 14 members of both parties, eight from the PPP and six from the BI(S). Witnesses say that at 9:00 p.m. outside the Biryani Bistro, 10 masked men arrived with hot thermoses of yakhni and bags of … Continue reading The vice of rice

By Kuldip Nayar Dawn.com Indians and Pakistanis are the best of friends when they are not talking at each other. –Photo by AP It is unfortunate that Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor hijacked a successful trip by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Riyadh. Tharoor’s remark that Saudi Arabia could be an interlocutor for talks between New Delhi and Islamabad was embarrassing. Tharoor may be indiscreet but I suspect that somehow, he got the impression that the prime minister would go along with him. True, an interlocutor is not a mediator. But he participates in talks. Tharoor’s observation … Continue reading Atmosphere of mistrust

How many of you watched the footage of criminal suspects in Chiniot being tortured by the police? Many, I hope, because if you didn’t, that’s a whole lot of air time going to waste. I caught the footage on a local news television channel late Monday night. I watched it again on Tuesday morning when I woke up, and then again the same night before I slept. On Wednesday, I didn’t watch television. In the race to break news and be the first to broadcast a report, news networks are going overboard. This is an understatement when one is talking … Continue reading Operation Desensitise Pakistan

Dawn.com An Iraqi man walks past a poster of Iraqi parliamentary election candidate Feyruz Hatam on a street in Baghdad. Uncovered women’s faces, in all forms of media from election posters to televised debates, has been one of the surprises of the campaign ahead of Iraq’s second parliamentary elections since Saddam was ousted by a US-led invasion in 2003. –AFP Photo Editorial Protecting women Protecting women BAGHDAD: Feyruz Hatam’s face is itself an indication of the change in Iraqi society’s view of women that has become apparent in the run-up to the country’s election on Sunday: it is not covered. … Continue reading Unveiled women stop traffic in Iraq election campaign

Pictured: The Chinese GIRL toddler who weighs 6.5st at the age of two By Mail Foreign Service She may be just two years old, but Pang Ya is already tipping the scales at 6.5st. The toddler’s size means she now weighs the same as an average female Chinese adult. Although her alarmed parents admit that their daughter has a healthy appetite, they are desperate for help. Larger than life: Pang Ya (left) poses next to a healthy two-year-old Chinese friend Enlarge   Rotund: The toddler’s parents are anxious for assistance in helping Pang Ya lose weight Her father said: ‘Doctors … Continue reading Chinese GIRL toddler weighs 6.5st at the age of two

Mars spacecraft breaks through data download milestone as it beams 12,000 amazing pictures back to Earth By Daily Mail Reporter There crystal clear views of alien rock formations are just a few of the impressive images sent back from Nasa’s Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter. Captured by the onboard HiRise camera, they show dramatic landscapes including inverted craters, deep water-forged gullies and frost covered dunes. To date, scientists have released 11,762 such images to the public. They were sent back to Earth from the spacecraft, which is circling the Red Planet 72million miles away. This image shows dark sand dunes and inverted … Continue reading Amazing pictures of Mars

Relative of British boy held for £100,000 ransom in Pakistan ‘may have taken part in kidnap’ By Daily Mail Reporter A senior diplomat claimed today that the kidnap of a five-year-old British boy being held for a £100,000 ransom in Pakistan could have been an ‘inside job’. Wajid Shamsul Hasan, the Pakistani High Commissioner in the UK, said police were investigating whether a member of Sahil Saeed’s family was involved in his abduction. ‘The initial investigation is also looking at the possibility of a sort of inside job as well,’ he told GMTV this morning. Kidnapped: Sahil Saeed has been … Continue reading Please check the link for Daily Mails readers comments – these racists are pathetic