Tag: Karachi
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Violence erupts after MQM MPA Raza Haider assassinated in Karachi
The city of lights bleed again yesterday evening as erratic incidents of violence erupted in Karachi subsequent to assassination of Raza Haider, an MQM leader and member Sindh Assembly who was shot dead at a mosque in Nazimabad along with his guard by unknown assailants. He was preparing to attend a funeral prayer and was…
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President Zardari to visit UK despite of protests
After intense domestic pressure and protests to call off his visit in the wake of British Prime Minister David Cameron’s lamentable statement in India that Pakistan was exporting terror, it is now official that President of Pakistan is about to visit Britain this week. Asif Ali Zardari left for Paris yesterday for meetings with French…
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Air Blue plane crash in Islamabad
Indeed it is a sad start to the day in Pakistan today when AirBlue flight got crashed into Margalla hills Islamabad having 150+ people on board including crew members. The plane had reportedly lost contact with the control tower during the crash probably because of thick fog and heavy rainfall in Islamabad. The flight was…
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Government to award legal status to SMS and MMS in Pakistan
Current government of Pakistan is quite successful in addressing non issues rather than dealing with core issues like target killings in Karachi, suicide blasts in Lahore, fake degrees of parliamentarians, price hike, load shedding etc. To keep the gossip going around the corner and to provide some material for talk shows every now and than…
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The Terror Wave of Karachi!!
Like many other issues, it seems that peace in Karachi has become a dream for the current regime. Meetings, pledges and ultimatums have all gone in vain as the death toll keep on rising every day and night. This is nothing new, and nearly every quarter has shown its distress on this issue, but 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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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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Phet coming to Karachi? What the Media is feeding us
In the wake of Phet, the North Indian Tropical Storm that transformed into a Category 4 Cyclone when it pounded the shores of Oman, Pakistani media went crazy, as usual. Quoting DG Meteorological Department Qamaruz Zaman Chaudhry, who is either misquoted or clearly not updated on his subject, media has sensationalized the possibility of Karachi…
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Cyclone Phet approaching Karachi
Hurricane Season 2010 is arriving at the shores of Pakistan in form of Phet, a tropical storm brewing in Indian Ocean. NASA’s Terra satellite flew over Tropical Cyclone Phet at 06:55 UTC (2:55 a.m. EDT or 6:55 p.m. local time/Pakistan). The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer instrument, or MODIS captured a visible image of Phet at…
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Pakistan needs more provinces and Provincial Autonomy
If Pakistan is to survive, it has to be made economically manageable, and the only way this c…