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US Friendship Factor

By Aal e Hashmat • Dec 13th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

A press release no: 512 / 2009-ISPR dated 4th December 2009 reads as under:
‘In a highly tragic incident 36 innocent people including 17 children, 10 civilian, 9 Army personnel embraced shahadat when terrorists attacked a mosque in Parade Lane, Rawalpindi, Saddar today.
Reportedly 4 terrorists approached a mosque inside officer’s residential colony in Parade Lane, Rawalpindi [...]



GEO Banned II

By Aal e Hashmat • Dec 8th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Geo Television had started its broadcasts on 14th August 2002 on the occasion of Pakistan’s Independence Day, continued to run smoothly but, along with other such Channels like ARY Oneworld and Aaj, had first time suffered with drastic shock in November 2007 when Gen Musharraf had promulgated notorious ‘emergency’ in the shape of sub-martial law [...]



GEO Banned

By Aal e Hashmat • Dec 6th, 2009 • Category: Politics

In the last week of November 2009, the transmissions of GEO concerning ‘Merey Mutabiq’ of Dr Shahid Masood were banned allegedly on the pretext that propaganda against the presidency was being sent on air without due scrutiny, care and caution. The presidency team considered that the media had mislead the general public with disinformation on [...]



A CJ greeted in Karachi

By Aal e Hashmat • Dec 1st, 2009 • Category: Features

Just recently, in the last week of November 2009, the Provincial Home Minister of Sindh, Mr Zulfiqar Mirza, announced in a press meeting that his PPP government would launch an inquiry into the events of 12th May 2007 and would like to unveil the real faces behind that utter cruelty.
Let us turn to another page [...]



Taliban Factor - Part II

By Aal e Hashmat • Feb 10th, 2009 • Category: Politics

SH’D B Bhutto’s Letter to A A Zardari (No:15)
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(Taliban’s Factor - II)
Dear Zardari,
I’ll advise you to go through a report appeared (on 18th july 2008) in the Daily Mail of UK, titled as ‘Journey inside the Taliban: Briton’s dangerous secret meeting with the warlords who will never surrender’ written by James Fergusson before [...]



Taliban Factor - Part I

By Aal e Hashmat • Feb 9th, 2009 • Category: Politics

SH’D B Bhutto’s Letter to A A Zardari (No:14)
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(Taliban’s Factor - I)
Dear Zardari,

A very sensitive issue nowadays. My beloved nation feels embarrassed rather terrified … Talibans.

Talibans word was first coined in Afghanistan in 1980s when the local Islam-minded people gathered under the guidance of certain ISI officers from Pakistan, equipped with [...]



Farah Dogar Case - II

By Aal e Hashmat • Feb 1st, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

In the judgment (dated 16th January 2009) of Farah Hameed Dodar case, Justice Sardar Aslam of the Islamabad High Court has written that:
‘On 21-08-2008, answer scripts of Farah Dogar were submitted to the chairman, who ordered on 10-09-2008: “Please have the answer book of this candidate re-assessed.’

Erroneously judged or purposefully twisted. Let us [...]



Farah Dogar Case - I

By Aal e Hashmat • Jan 27th, 2009 • Category: Politics (Urdu)

On 16th January 2009 during the final hearing of an issue before the Islamabad High Court, petitioner Azam Khan Sultanpuri, who is one of the challengers of extra 21 marks awarded to Farah Hameed Dogar, argued that the Chairman, Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (FBISE) acted in gross violation of the rules while [...]



SH’D Benazir Bhutto’s Letter to A A Zardari (No: 5a)

By Aal e Hashmat • Jan 25th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Merey Sartaj

I wish this letter may find you in the best of your confidence and prosperity.

Very sensitive talk I’m going to share with you today. I’m much concerned about judiciary, judicial crisis, Lawyer’s agitations and boycotts of the courts etc going on in Pakistan since more than a year. This has paralyzed day [...]



SH’D Benazir Bhutto’s Letter to A A Zardari (No: 5b)

By Aal e Hashmat • Jan 24th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Merey Sartaj,

I’ll continue to say and write on our judiciary from where I left yesterday.

I feel disturbed that the lawyer’s movement is still going on though its dimensions have apparently been shrugged. Though some lawyers have departed themselves from the movement but there hearts are still with Ch Iftikhar, the deposed [...]