When Press Freedom Becomes an Anathema
Posted By Malik I came across this year’s Press Freedom Index. International media watchdog, Reporters Without Borders has been issuing the index since 2002. The index is self-explanatory about how …
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Even Bush Plagiarizes!
Pakistani author of The New York Times best-seller, Taliban, Ahmed Rashid, who was acknowledged by TIME magazine as “the most informed person on the earth about Afghanistan”, has accused George …
Read MoreEid Mubarak
Yet another Eid away from home, family! It is the third consecutive eid I am away from my family. I remember last year, I could not go to my home …
Read MoreSocial Media Boot Camp
I attended the Social Media Boot Camp for CEOs organized by Splash Media the other day. Registration was totally free! Just wanted to share a few things that I learned …
Read MoreFuture Imperfect
By Malik Siraj Akbar The panel discussion on ” The Media and the 2010 Midterm Elections” during the Global Leadership Forum was a grim reminder how both the media and …
Read MoreClinton Champions International Exchange Programs
By Malik Siraj Akbar WASHINGTON DC: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, while addressing the 2010-11 batch of Hubert Humphrey Fellows at a reception held on Monday evening said that …
Read MoreFellows From 93 Countries Gather at GLF-2010 in Washington
By Malik Siraj Akbar WASHINGTON DC: The Global Leadership Forum (GLF-2010), which is an essential component of the State Department-sponsored Hubert Humphrey Fellowship, was an implicit demonstration of increasing relationship …
Read MoreTerrorism& Responses
By Malik Siraj Akbar It was interesting to see the defensive reaction of some Pakistani (read Muslim) journalists in response to Dr. Arie Kruglanski’s presentation on “terrorism and the response …
Read MoreArrival in DC/Arlington
By Malik Siraj Akbar I woke up at 5:30 a.m today to catch US Airways flight# 44 for Washington DC. It had already started raining. I packed everything and made …
Read MoreGLF Facebook Page
By Malik Siraj Akbar As we all prepare to leave for the Global Leadership Forum (GLF-2010), I am exuberant that we already have 95 Hubert Humphrey Fellows from different campuses …
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