Gaza population 'rising rapidly'
Jabalia refugee camp, 21/01
The majority of Gazans are registered as refugees
The population of the Gaza Strip increased by almost 40% between 1997 and 2007, according to the results of a Palestinian census.
The survey, taken before Israel's recent...
A nation in denial
Khalid Hasan
Some well-heeled woman in Lahore took to the streets this week, daintily holding candles, while bright-eyed young men made up the rear — all in honour of the Iraqi journalist Muntazir al-Zaidi, who lobbed his shoes at President Bush. The NWFP assembly...
Ghauri defeated Pakistan before that. You are naming your missiles after people who conquered and defeated you.
And Prithvi is Sanskrit for "earth". Nothing to do with Prithviraj Chauhan. How hard is it to understand?
Hmm. So I guess till the Kashmir dispute is resolved, India should stop building irrigation and power projects for Kashmiris, and bring development to a halt.
Salman Rushdie lives in Britain, with the British Secret Service monitoring him 24/7. That's why he's alive.
In any Islamic country, anyone who publicly declares that he is no longer muslim will be killed by either the state, or by vigilante groups.
I'm not sure how they got such a detailed map of the Saraswati river, and some of the place names are definitely suspect.
However, as far as the boundaries of "historical India" are concerned, the map is accurate. When historians talk about the history of India, they usually refer to the...