One Bitch-Slap After Another

By DAVID MICHAEL GREEN

What do nine dead Gaza activists in the Mediterranean, nine-plus percent unemployment, and ninety years of oil catastrophe clean-up have in common?

How about one astonishingly tepid president?

How about one guy in the White House who squirms in his chair anytime someone uses the word "bold" and ( Read more... )

By Ahsan Waheed

Today's Daily Times Lahore Edition has a picture on its front page of well dressed well fed children holding placards saying 'child for sale'. Lined up behind them is a bunch of over fed men in clean clothes with upraised arms and faces with foolish false smiles. The caption says that they are sacked employees of some government ( Read more... )

By Saeed Minhas

ISLAMABAD: Parliamentarians who had gathered to discuss the president's address to the joint sitting were instead given a red book extolling the parliament's achievements in the past two years, with promises that things will look even rosier, at least on paper, in the days to come.

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January 22, 2009

With cost advantages disappearing many companies are looking within the US for outsourcing BPO work. A fall in wage rates and an increase in the number of unemployed professionals, has ensured that locations in the US like Albuquerque, Tulsa and El Paso emerge as frontrunners as 'near shore' destinations for outsourcing of back- ( Read more... )

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