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Police Service in Trouble

By Amin Rehman • Mar 22nd, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Deputy Superintendent of Police  is a post coming from the cadre of Rankers . Rankers are those officers who are promoted from Ranks by virtue of their hard work, excellent ACRs and sometimes qualifying some kind of Departmental Exams. This cadre is normally treated as eunichs as their colleagues from ranks think that he is [...]



Sports and Media

By Amin Rehman • Mar 17th, 2010 • Category: Entertainment

Sports, Entertainment, News and possibly every person in this age of information wants to be part of media in any manner possible. Gone are the days when press conferences used to be held to convey your message through the print media in some hotel followed by a tea party or lunch/dinner. I personally know some [...]



Pakistan on Global Stage

By Amin Rehman • Mar 14th, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Pakistan has always been a player at the global stage since its emergence as an independent country in 1947. Unfortunately after the demise of  founding father Muhammad Ali Jinnah, his colleagues quickly tried to grab their booty considering this country as a reward for the combined struggle of residents and migrants. Muslim League wanted the [...]



Pakistan Team for T20 World Cup 2010

By Amin Rehman • Mar 13th, 2010 • Category: Entertainment

Pakistan Cricket Board’s new Chairman of Selectors Mohsin Hassan Khan is an intelligent and honest person keeping aside his personal issues with cine world and reported drunken appearance in a live TV show. When he was appointed to this post I had my all the sympathies with him as he was more interested in batting [...]



RBS, match fixing and T20 World Cup

By Amin Rehman • Mar 7th, 2010 • Category: Features

Everyone in Pakistan and we in USA are glued to Geo Super and watching domestic RBS T20 cup and after some very very perplexing round matches which were beyond my comprehension, Faisalabad Wolves led by Misbah ul Haq and Sialkot Stallions led by Shoaib Malik are in the finals. Let me appreciate the domestic [...]



Media and Pakistan

By Amin Rehman • Feb 12th, 2010 • Category: Politics

There was a time when we had only one Channel named PTV and it used to stop broadcasting at midnight unless there was some special event like Pakistan Hockey match or Muhammad Ali’s boxing match being broadcast live. PTV helped to create a rival in the form of STN or Shalimar Television Network which created [...]



Journalistic Ethics

By Amin Rehman • Jan 19th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Sometimes you try to constraint yourself  from saying something but some emotions or words compel you to break the shackles and start writing. Cricket is my passion and when I started writing for TPS, I decided that cricket will be my only interest. I wrote about four articles on cricket and as I was browsing [...]



Long Live Pakistan Cricket

By Amin Rehman • Jan 13th, 2010 • Category: Entertainment

Pakistan cricket and Politics have always remained in a familiar situation filled by intrigues, approvals,denials,removals and reinstatements. I had stopped thinking about Pakistan cricket’s politics after the exit of Yunus Khan but recent rumours,murmurs and denials coming  from Hobart have once again forced me to write on the issue.
There is no denying fact that Yunus [...]



Cricket in Pakistan

By Amin Rehman • Jan 11th, 2010 • Category: Features

The weather in this part of the world can be so unpredictable that you never know what you will face in the morning snow or rain. The Americans rely so much on weather forecast and always tune in the local weather channel on TV or go to weather.com instead of looking outside the window. It [...]



Can we win in Sydney?

By Amin Rehman • Jan 6th, 2010 • Category: Entertainment

The Aussies went to Lunch really satisfied with a lead which is becoming dangerous due to special effort of Micheal Hussey and Peter Siddle ably assisted by none other than Mr.butterfingers AKA Kamran Akamal who also happens to be vice captain of the team. He has been solidly backed by none other than Captain Muhammad [...]