SFHomeless@zoho.com shares SF SRO Hotel-Apartment Tenant Survey

     We have 30,000 residents living inside about 500 Single Room Occupancy Hotel Rooms spread out throughout our city.     Hundreds of thousands more RENT their homes, apartments and rooms...

Political Fatigue: Or, America's Trash Problem

My God, man. What the hell is going on with this country? I haven't been moved to write much about politics in the last couple of months. It just seems like the entire discourse in this county is getting more and...

The UN Investigation Report

" By Fatima Rizvi The UN investigation into the assassination of Benazir Bhutto has done what it was mandated to do---report on the circumstances and facts of the attack that took her life. That there are no surprises is not a surprise. The report still serves a valuable...

Hidden threat from al-Qaeda sleeper cells

This is mainly due to the fact that locally employed embassy staff can not be trusted and that embassies lack the numbers of British citizens to check documentation. In the Philippines for an example office staff...

Can we raise the level of discourse?

Can we raise the level of discourse?  Some great letters to the editor of the New York Times,  discussing why impassioned politics is a thing of the gutter:It is pointed out that the impartial and neutral tone  -  the mark of sophisticated public...

Mysterious Gojra discord

The Gojra inferno has set off a torrent of country-wide condemnation for subjecting the Christian Pakistanis to criminal violence based on concocted case of blasphemy.Federal Minister Maulana Ataur Rehman said the desecration of Holy Qur’aan is a big crime but the murder...

Peeling the Onion: The Taliban in Pakistan

“The Taliban are no longer a single movement with a single cause, The Taliban have become a phenomena, a hydra with different heads and no centre of gravity, an organizational structure with commonalities but different goals and objectives depending on locations and...

Sri Lanka can not hide genocide

Stop the sinhalese in their ethnic cleansing of tamils in Sri Lanka

Moderates Muslims drove Extremist muslims of the streets - UK

" The Muslim community turned on extremists in their midst yesterday, telling them they were 'sick and tired' of their behavior. The angry confrontation came in Luton, where anti-Islamic protesters brandished England flags last Sunday, before clashing with police. The...

Mass Poisoning Feared Among Afghan Schoolgirls

It looks like the Taliban are continuing to wage war against little girls.  In an effort to keep women uneducated, the Muslim extremists have been waging a campaign of terror and violence against educators...

Lahore college bans girls wearing jeans after extremists threat

One of the oldest and famous college of Lahore, Kinnaird College has banned girl students from wearing body -hugging  western dress like jeans and T-shirts after threats from extremist elements. " The...

Deal or No Deal

Swat is part of Pakistan’s Malakand division bordering Afghanistan and administered by the provincial government of Pakistan’s North West Province. Till recently it was the most idyllic and peaceful tourist destination in Pakistan. Two years of Taliban instigated violence...

Hindu terrorists attack visiting Pakistani journalist in India

Activists of a Hindu terrorist organisation reportedly attacked a group of visiting Pakistani journalists in the capital city of India on Wednesday. "NEW DELHI: The extremists of a Hindu religious organisation, Shri...

Ominous signals

When there are ominous signals from government functionaries, think tanks and army generals of our so-called allies that Pakistan could collapse within six months then it is the time that our political leaders forget about their power-sharing equation and focus on meeting the...

Do U.S. drones kill Pakistani extremists or recruit them?

WASHINGTON — Even as the Obama administration launches new drone attacks into Pakistan's remote tribal areas, concerns are growing among U.S. intelligence and military officials that the strikes are bolstering the Islamic insurgency by prompting Islamist radicals to...

closeSign in to NowPublic

is reporting from