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By Dawar Naqvi • Oct 18th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

There’s nothing more dangerous than an idiot political activist. On Oct 8th ex home Minister Mr. Zulfiqar Mirza appeared in the talk show. Once again he used very terrible language against some political parties and their leaders. In his world he and only late PPP leaderships Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Benazir Bhutto and Mr. Zardari are [...]



Pretending to be Honest

By Dawar Naqvi • Oct 12th, 2011 • Category: Lead Story

You are leading a double life, pretending to be honest and being involved in gambling. That would be hypocrisy.
Pakistan big cricket ICON has admitted to giving betting tips to his brother-in-law, Ben Goldsmith.
Pakistan’s former captain made the revelation in his new book ‘Pakistan:  A Personal History.
“It took me a year to clear the debts the [...]



PPP-MQM Coalition

By Dawar Naqvi • Oct 7th, 2011 • Category: Politics

Those who are critical of Alliance are the same people who have done nothing for 30 years. The PPP-MQM coalition is the best alliance in the current situation. Leaders of both the parties should be duly lauded for entering into this accord.
In recent months hundreds of people have been killed in the series of [...]



Chaudhry Aslam & his wealth

By Dawar Naqvi • Sep 20th, 2011 • Category: Politics

“There was no help in Karachi (site of escalating violence) or with the bomb blasts. All I got from them were concocted stories of corruption. What is the purpose of intelligence, if they can’t infiltrate terrorism?” Benazir Bhutto
A car-borne suicide bomber flattened the enormous expensive house of a senior CID police officer in the country’s [...]



Blackmail Has Become Respectable

By Dawar Naqvi • Sep 16th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The long-established and noble rule of the law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of Pakistan political history, has suffered a deadly below. Blackmail has become respectable and essential element of so called democracy.
On June 27th after suffering numerous jolts at the hands of Zardari government, MQM seems to have finally [...]



Conspiracy

By Dawar Naqvi • Oct 1st, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons or property will be safe.
This is what always happens in Pakistan after any major incidents. People forget some basic teaching of [...]



Advice to Imran Khan

By Dawar Naqvi • Sep 25th, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells. At his playing time Imran Khan was one of the most successful Captains. One of important key to his successes was a Javed Miandad. Without heroic performances of Javed Miandad, Pakistan team could not have won the world cup. No captain can win [...]



A Great Talent for Pakistani Cricket Team

By Dawar Naqvi • Mar 28th, 2010 • Category: Entertainment

A really great talent finds its success in execution. Pakistan had won the one day cricket world cup of 1992. It was a great moment for our cricket history. At the beginning of world cup 92 Pakistan cricket team performance was not very satisfactory. Pakistan had won only total five matches in that world cup [...]



Coaching is a Profession of Love

By Dawar Naqvi • Feb 23rd, 2010 • Category: Entertainment

Coaching is a profession of love. You can’t coach players unless you love them. This is what we are missing in our team. We need a young dedicated coach for our team. In last Australian tour we had many coaches and we had seen the bitter result. Questions have been asked to one famous Coach, [...]



Answer to Indian Premier League by Pakistani

By Dawar Naqvi • Feb 16th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Some times nationalism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum reason.  This is what happened in Indian Premiere League. They are arranging the world most expensive T20 cricket tournament without the world champion of T20 world cup. Organizers of Indian (IPL) league insulted our cricket heroes. Pakistan players [...]