ARTICLE (September 02, 2010): It is difficult to determine who said it first. But the line "the country is heading towards a bloody revolution" seems to have struck a chord with all kinds of people: politicians, journalists, business leaders, and television commentators of different hues. Repeated day and night in the media, this alarmist assessment is now almost a national refrain.

ARTICLE (September 02, 2010): Our financial expert friend Lakhani looked worried. His way of entrance into my office showed anxiety written large on his face. I asked him, "Lakhani be in peace, Don't worry, problems do have their solutions."

ARTICLE (September 02, 2010): "Please get us out of here," one of 33 miners trapped for close to four weeks at a gold and copper mine in northern Chile asked in the first video from the depths. The miners have been entombed 700 metres under the Atacama Desert since August 5, when the shaft they were working in collapsed, and they have to deal with constant temperatures above 30 degrees Celsius.

ARTICLE (September 02, 2010): "They are well connected so nothing will happen."

ARTICLE (September 01, 2010): After having wrought unprecedented havoc, the Indus is finally discharging its flood crest into the Arabian Sea. There are no more stormy rains in the cachement areas upstream. The initial concerns about the flooding of rivers Ravi and Sutlej have turned out to be unfounded. The outflow at Gudu and Sukkur barrages is gradually coming down.

ARTICLE (September 01, 2010): To begin with, neither the devastating floods, nor the shameful revelations about the Pakistan cricket team, nor the Sialkot lynching case, nor the judicial crisis that has been "averted" by the Supreme Court on Monday, nor the overall morale and crises of the country.

ARTICLE (September 01, 2010): The admissions ward at the sprawling brown-brick hospital in South Africa's Soweto township usually has the air of a disaster zone, with around 120 patients on any given day waiting on stretchers. But a second week into a crippling public sector strike that has seen nurses desert their stations en masse, the number of patients in an eerily calm Ward 20 at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital had fallen to around 30.

ARTICLE (September 01, 2010): "The general public's outrage against spot fixing by our cricket team has not yet abated."

ARTICLE (August 31, 2010): This is Pakistan's Katrina. I just returned from that country, where the devastation created by the recent floods was gut-wrenching. Five years after floods washed over the southern United States, Pakistan is suffering from an epic disaster. And we turn away from Pakistan in its hour of need at our own peril.

ARTICLE (August 31, 2010): Mankind has yet to devise a way of governing the state whose fairness, workability and transparency is sustainable; of the systems invented so far, the one that allows curbing weaknesses in these areas before they turn lethal is democracy that envisages a peaceful change of state administrators; ironically, this much relied on plus of democracy is being used by self-seekers to achieve their ends while in office, and go scot-free thereafter.