Author: S.Salman Shah Jilani
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What’s missing this August ?
August was supposed to be a month in which school children used to rehearse for tableaus to be performed at the independence day function, buying flags to hoist on their rooftop, Independence Day parade practice used to take place in Islamabad and names used to be finalized to whom awards were to be presented on…
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Silence is an attribute of the dead; he who is alive speaks.
The recently published National Corruption Perception Survey 2010 by the Transparency International- Pakistan graced the headlines and remained talk of the town for a few days but then went on the backburner as a usual practice of what happens in our country. However In a developed country such high perceived numbers of corruption would have…
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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder
While a minority, born with a silver spoon living in their palatial havelis, luxurious farm houses and bungalows, can talk about the problems being faced by the country such as fake degrees, terrorism, the presidency and target killings on their dinner tables, with generators on standby and water tankers at their disposal, there are millions…
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Guantanamo like Prisons of Sindh
Cries of shutting down the Guantanamo prison have been around for some time now, reason being the inhuman conditions at the prison which rather than reforming the prisoners is forcing them to become hardcore terrorists once they are released. Numerous examples could be quoted in this context. Such huge global outcry in this regard had…
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Democracy is NOT the best revenge
Much awaited UN commission’s report on Benazir Bhutto’s assassination was published last month. It is now binding upon the government to pursue the investigation of this case with greater zeal. Many term the assassination of Benazir Bhutto as a conspiracy to break the country hence letting the real culprits and perpetrators roam around freely means…
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Dr. Ayaz Ali Khan still missing in UAE
Dr. Ayaz Ali Khan is amongst the three Pakistanis purportedly picked up by the UAE authorities fr…
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Patient No. 27
The resemblance was uncanny. Although it was a private hospital one would find it very hard to se…