Category: Current Affairs
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Afro-Asian Nations defeat Howard by 6 wickets
I read about it yesterday and smiled, but the headlines in today’s ‘The AGE’ (one of Australia’s most popular newspaper) made me beam from ear to ear. Cricket World HUMILIATES former PM Yup, the emphasis on ‘Humiliates’ is intentional. Because that is exactly what it was, UTTER HUMILIATION. And rightly so. And it also was…
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Habit of Blaming Leaders
Murder, rape, robbery, theft, fraud, dowry, honor killings, alcohol consumption, prostitution, destruction, molestation, abduction, fornication, oppression, exploitation, corruption, you name it. Major problems and not one has to do with leaders. Of course, the list includes poverty too, which is also blamed on leaders. Poor people have a lot of children and due to poverty,…
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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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Awam Mar Gae … Bhutto Aaj Bhe Zinda Hai
Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto’s birthday was celebrated with full zeal and zest throughout the country. Pakistan People’s Party arranged processions country wide. Government held mass gatherings and seminars to mark the birthday of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto. Promises were made once again to empower the AWAM with roti, kapra and makaan. Oh yes! roti, kapra and makaan.…
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Guinness Record breaking attempt for the longest line of pizzas in Lahore
Lahore’s claim to fame isn’t its intricate Mughal architecture solely but its foodies and delicious food too. From phajjay kay paaey to Cholay Bhatoray, Dahi bhalay of Regal Chowk to Laddo pethian, Lahori food has no match. Western food is now also becoming popular day by day with a number of food chains opening in…
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Unjust taxation
A Karachi businessman recently had a heart attack when he got a notice from the Income Tax department to pay a huge sum as income tax. It seems that his mobile phone bills alone had averaged more than fifty thousand rupees a month, even though his declared income had been only four hundred thousand rupees…
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God’s “allowance”
Recently I happened to visit the Islamabad Kachehree in F-8 where my father needed to get some “stamp†papers for validation of my brother’s Nikah. Exhausted from the day’s work, I trudged along at 5 in the evening as we passed by shabbily built quarters serving as different law companies’ offices. I was reminded of…
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FIFA World Cup 2010 – Jabulani ball controversy
From its beginning till now FIFA world cup 2010 has been in headlines whether it is the result of matches, kick off concert or controversies about vuvuzela and Jabulani. The new, supposedly improved World Cup game ball named ‘Jabulani’ means “rejoice†in Zulu, one of the native languages of South Africa. So far the ball…
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The Controversial Drone of the Vuvuzela during FIFA world Cup 2010
Vuvuzela, a meter long brightly colored plastic that emits noisy sound, is the controversial trademark trumpet of South African football fans in the ongoing 2010 FIFA world cup. The instrument is responsible for the background soundtrack in a high volume you hear during every match to the delight of some and the profound annoyance of…
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President of Pakistan Asif Zardari is a citizen of United States?
Today’s Jang and the News published that President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari holds American nationality as claimed by a well-known US website NNDB (Notable Names Database). The websites contains over 37,000 profiles of notable people around the globe. The website introduces itself as; NNDB is an intelligence aggregator that tracks the activities of people…