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Questions about the crash

http://tribune.com.pk/story/32446/questions-about-the-crash/ Editorial, The Express Tribune, July 30, 2010

What went wrong with Airblue Flight ED 202

http://blogs.tribune.com.pk/story/819/what-went-wrong-with-airblue-flight-ed-202/

wikileaks story and our self-censorship

no channel still running the ISI wikileaks story ---- hmmmmmm even the newspaper websites -- dawn and ET carrying rebuttals -- and the news has nothing except a short report from London saying that the UK govt has no comment on the leaks -- weird this is -- why such self-censorship

Express Tribune editorial on General Kayani's extension

http://tribune.com.pk/story/30456/democracy-and-the-generals/

nestle's silly advertisement

saw this big billboard opposite bbq tonight -- nestle ad - they now call all their juice products 'fruita vitals' -- what the hell does that even mean -- its prob got something to do with the fact that they cannot claim to call it juice (maybe because it isnt) and because of legal reasons are using this kind of silly name -- perhaps a paper should do a story on it -- hey wait-- nestle advertises heavily in the media -- so no stories i bet!

what a publisher should NEVER do

http://thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=30139 just not on -- the speech may have been very good and it could have gone as a small news item, if at all, but to devote an half page of your own newspaper -- not good judgment and in poor taste

In search of a starting point

Editorial, The Express Tribune July 17, 2010 Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi’s statement made during a press conference on Friday, a day after his talks with his Indian counterpart, S M Krishna, that India did not seem “mentally prepared” to discuss all outstanding issues with Pakistan is alarming – and this is putting it mildly. In a detailed briefing to the media, Mr Qureshi said that India could not choose to be selective and discuss only the issues that it wanted to because bilateral ties between the neighbours could improve only if the concerns of both sides were taken into account and deliberated upon. At the risk of sounding hawkish, we would have to agree with the minister because surely the road to better ties is built on the concerns of both sides being discussed and tackled. India cannot expect Pakistan to address all the issues that are dear to India – foremost among them prosecuting those involved in the Mumbai attacks – and then choose to ignore those that are dear