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Barring Women From Voting

By Dawar Naqvi • May 18th, 2013 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people. On May 11th women were not allowed to vote on many polling stations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.  Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI), Jamaat-i-Islami (JI), Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N), Awami National Party (ANP) and the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) signed on the accord to barring women [...]



Our nation is not ready for Elections

By Dawar Naqvi • May 8th, 2013 • Category: Politics

You can’t push anyone up the ladder unless he or she is ready to climb. There are strings of attacks on parties and candidates since campaigning began last month for the general election on 11 May.
Residents pay dearly if the democratic fiesta continues violent on the day of election, if lives are claimed or people [...]



Terrorism is Terrorism

By Dawar Naqvi • Feb 6th, 2013 • Category: Politics

The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. This is all about Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan.
Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Ehsnaullah Ehsan, in a video interview appearing with Adnan Rashid, the prime convict in the Pervez Musharraf attempted suicide attack case, said [...]



Meritocracy in Pakistan

By Dawar Naqvi • Jan 24th, 2013 • Category: Politics

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Meritocracy is a political philosophy that holds power should be vested in individuals according to merit. The most common definition of meritocracy conceptualizes merit in terms of tested competency and ability, and most likely, as measured by IQ or standardized achievement tests.
In government or other administration systems, [...]



You may delay but Taliban will not

By Dawar Naqvi • Nov 16th, 2012 • Category: Politics

Continuous killing and looting in Karachi is enough to understand that PPP Government tends not to solve crisis, only to rearrange them.
In last four years PPP Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. They run government like a Hollywood film premiere. Here are some their previous and current releases.
Zulfiqar Mirza, Land Mafia, People Aman [...]



Journey of Supreme Court

By Dawar Naqvi • Oct 22nd, 2012 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s truer that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by truth.
The Supreme Court in its short order ruled that there was ample evidence to suggest that the 1990 election was rigged and that a political cell maintained by the then president Ghulam Ishaq Khan [...]



Shooting has shocked Pakistan

By Dawar Naqvi • Oct 11th, 2012 • Category: Politics

Any group can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized. A 14-year-old girl who was awarded Pakistan’s first National Peace Prize for her online diary reporting on the Taliban’s ban on education was shot and wounded on her way home from school Tuesday.
Malala Yousufzai, a frequent target of death threats, [...]



Against the teaching

By Dawar Naqvi • Sep 23rd, 2012 • Category: Lead Story

People don’t kill each other over religion. People kill each other over politics, and use “religion” as a unifying force for their side.
On September 8, 2012, an excerpt of the YouTube anti-muslim video called Innocence of Muslims was broadcast on Al-Nas TV, an Egyptian Islamist television station. In Video they tried to insult Prophet [...]



Killing innocent people

By Dawar Naqvi • Sep 5th, 2012 • Category: Politics

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. The killing of innocent people is always wrong.
Unfortunately day by day killing, attacks, suicide bombing is increasing in Pakistan. Most of the time Islamic extremists are taking responsibilities of these acts. I modestly request you to read the following Quranic verses [...]



Imran Khan and Attack on Kamra Air Force Base

By Dawar Naqvi • Aug 27th, 2012 • Category: Lead Story

The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take stringent action to foil the evil designs of saboteurs.
Once again a Pakistan air force base has come under attack.
There have been at least three attacks in the vicinity of the Kamra base since 2007, but all of them took [...]