Greetings to my fellow readers of The Pashtun Times..! My name is Roger Dubar. I live in Glasgow, Scotland. I’ve been using the internet for over 25 years, and have used it to talk to and made friends with people from all over the world. In February, I traveled to Barcelona in Spain for Europe’s biggest telecom conference, Mobile World ...

One may think what one likes about Angela Merkel`s politics, but her European vision, combined with the welcome for refugees fleeing Syria and other war-torn countries, should not fail because of national initiatives now. The EU Member States quickly agree when it comes to the requisitioning of funds from Brussels, but it’s noticeable that when solidarity and joint action are ...

The greater Punjab is not acceptable to small nations anymore. Pakistan in its present state is an imbalance state numerically, politically and economically Pakistan minus Punjab, there is no Pakistan. But Pakistan with Punjab is MAHA Punjab. This equation may sound silly to some readers and the others may ignore it to be the simplification of the grievous situation, prevailing ...

Book Review: Pashtun Tales from the Pakistan-Afghan frontier, by Aisha Ahmad & Roger Boase, London: Saqi Books, 2003, 368pp. Book contents include Preface, List of Plates, Folkloristic Analysis, Notes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index of Tale Types & Folk Motifs.  Commentary by Angelina Merisi The long-standing indigenous tradition of storytelling, folktales, fables and verse narratives  has constituted a means of  didactic communication, underpinning ...

Europe does not exactly look good at the moment. In fact it looks like a greedy old man who sits on his money and refuses to notice that his time has passed. The Danish parliament seriously believes that confiscating all valuables from refugees exceeding an amount of 400 Euro is a good idea. The so called Visegrad countries (Poland, Hungary, ...

Hatred is a satanic instinct, infectious in character and only found in human species. It is not spontaneous like anger and has roots in evil intelligence. It has some erroneous characteristics like fire. The fire initially needs fuel, subsequently, it consumes itself, the left over is ash. The hatred generates and thrives on bitterness and intolerance. It destroys the host ...

Why does modern Pakistani education produce educated militants? Education is a continuous process of behavior formation. Similarly, Russell believes education is not information; it is formation of character. Each advancing step or level leads to a new observation, exposition and acquisition. In his thoughts on education Imam Ghazali says it is a process which enables an individual to distinguish between ...

Last week I searched the internet but couldn’t find any report that could explain that since 9/11 what are the major changes Pakistan has brought in its policy to deal with the menace of terrorism? After Talibanization the plant of Islamic State is sowed in the region and still common Pakistanis are not complaining that why they are dying every ...

It is now a well-known fact that language is not only a tool of communication and does not only represent identity but it is also a reservoir of indigenous wisdom and history. Language carries and expresses diverse threads of a culture. Its complex structure signifies belief system and is indicative of a worldview.  It is the tool through which discourse ...

The privatization is being preached and propagated as the only panacea of the sufferings of PIA by the government. The comparison charts of PIA are being pasted on social media for the justification and for gaining support and sympathy from the masses. Unfortunately a large population has been mesmerized by the governmental propaganda. We are always bent upon looking at ...