Crow's Nest...

After a long wait we finally are going to get some kind of entertainment that is acceptable to all sections of our society.  We are going to have cricket played on our grounds.  We are going to have a few moments of fun and relaxation. Thank you team Sri Lanka for coming to Pakistan, to the rescue of millions of fans in this country.  If India can not be there for the fun and festivities due to political motives and gains we have at least some friends who we can look up to. Pakistan, Lanka first ODI today - GEO.tv

Madam, - The World Press Photo of the year award 2006 was given to photographer Spencer Platt, who captured an image of four stylishly dressed young women and their driver cruising through the rubble of war-torn Beirut in a convertible. The photograph, not surprisingly, caused controversy. Nikola Solic’s photograph in your edition of January 2nd is equally striking, and will surely be remembered as an iconic image of the tragedy that is Gaza 2009. The image is of a group of young, clearly well-off Israelis, five females and one male, surveying from a hilltop distance an Israeli air strike on the Gaza Strip. One young woman is laughing heartily; another gazes languidly into the distance, and has a mobile phone glued to her ear; another, armed with binoculars, is looking, presumably, at a scene of devastation. An extraordinary photograph that narrates, even better than words can do, the attitudes of a nation. - Yours, etc, CIARAN COSGROVE, Glenageary, Co Dublin. ...

Economist in its print version tells us a story, that, I am sure, will make Tableeghi Jamat writhe in anguish and pain.  It is somewhat of a counter point to their claims that almost anywhere you look and everywhere you go Islam is spreading like wild fire.  It, infact, might not be true for the state of Kosovo where, Muslims are converting to Christianity and not in small numbers but in quite large numbers. I will however take this story with a pinch of salt.  Part of the reason is my primary faith and the hurt that I feel when I read this story but the other part is more to do with the quality of fact telling that Economist does.  To be very truthful Economist articles are more often than not factually misleading and stories in their own right.  I am mostly disappointed with the way facts are quoted without any care for the real picture.  Then again I read Economist for the quality of opinion more than the quality of its facts that I know by now are if ...