Category: Current Affairs
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Muttahida Muslim League: The Need of Alliance of A United Muslim League
The original successor of Pakistan is Muslim league which is founded in 1906 then as the time passed this party splits into various Muslim Sub-Muslim Leagues like PMLN, PMLQ, PMLZ, PLMJ, PMLF, Awami Muslim League and some others in the result of some controversies, military dictatorships and some other “hidden†reasons. Today most of people…
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Pakistan: The Land of Unlimited corruption
The prime minister (Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani) said his government is not corrupt. And the very next day, Transparency International announced that Pakistan has jumped to place no. 34 from 42 in the list of corrupt nations. I wonder why it happens that whenever this government announces something, the opposite happens. Immediately after PEPCO announced…
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Zardari Out for Fishing!!!!!!
So finally PPP under President Zardari has taken the strategic decision feared by so many within their ranks. The recent meeting between Law Minister Babar Awan and PML-Q Chief Pervez Elahi and the followed session in front of media made it crystal clear that PPP under Zardari has rolled out its plan for the completion…
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Lauren Booth: Sister-in-law of Tony Blair converts to Islam
Tony Blair’s sister-in-law, Lauren Booth, has converted to Islam. She had decided to become a Muslim after her visit to the shrine of Fatima al-Masumeh in the city of Qom, Iran. She converted immediately on her return to Britain. On the Daily Mail, she is quoted saying, “I sat down and felt this shot of…
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Farewell Paul the Octopus
Undoubtedly the most famous Cephalopod, Paul the psychic octopus, the hero of 2010 FIFA world cup has died today at his home at the Oberhausen Sea Life Center in Germany. Paul was actually born in Weymouth and moved from the town’s Sea Life Park in 2006. He isn’t the first thing to die in a…
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Now Shiv Sena calls for Burqa Ban
There is a saying in Sinhalese, “One who has received a beating with a firebrand, runs away at the sight of a firefly”. Similar proverbs in other languages are “A burnt child dreads fire” (English) “A scalded dog fears cold water” (French) and “One bitten by a serpent is afraid of a rope’s end” (Jewish).…
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Lost Some Where..
Our visionary pundits of politics are busy in something which only they and the angels accompanying them are aware of. Both in domestic and international arena, it seems that the political lot has finally decided to doom this land so dear to us which our ancestors named as “Pakistan†63 years back. Whether its democratic…
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Lyari: A Perpetual War Zone in Karachi
It’s been a long time (more than ten years) since I visited the Lyari area of Karachi, although I used to pass through it daily right up to 1998. In the last decade, gangsters have taken over the district and almost every day gang wars take place in which people are killed. But then, I…
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Dera Ghazi Khan Mob Justice results in Another Grisly Murder
I have no words to express my fury, heartache, angst and torment over another gruesome murder of Hafiz Abdullah. Hafiz Abdullah; resident of Dera Ghazi Khan and father of thirteen children killed a man during a spat. He was caught by police. As per the rules of law, he should have been tried in a…
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The Story of White Taliban
US led “War on Terror†is one episode where things have taken a new dimension on regular bases.  Now as we are well into the 10th year of this global adventurism and many including me strongly believe that its Afghan chapter will be entering its final chapter by the mid of 2011, a new but…