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Bring it On

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • May 23rd, 2013 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

My son lost his job yesterday due to the load-shedding and since then in few hours he has become a kind of zombie due to grief. He worked as a computer programmer in a company who took work from USA,  but for some months the company was struggling badly to meet the deadlines due to [...]



Army in Plain Clothes to Fight Lawyers During Musharraf Trial?

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Apr 26th, 2013 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

Things have suddenly changed and Pervaiz Musharraf has got his confidence back. He has postponed his plans to run out of Pakistan, and that is why his mother’s statement in media in which she has asked her brave son to not to come to Dubai and she would herself come to see the commando.
What has [...]



Fall of PTI

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Apr 20th, 2013 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

When Haroon Rasheed and Hassan Nisar start their utter disappointment, sheer anguish, and extreme anger regarding the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaaf and literally start questioning the sagacity and foresight of its leader Imran Khan, then it means that things are really bad, very bad with the PTI.
The  barometer of media is also not showing that open love [...]



Who is Jealous of Najam Sethi

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Mar 27th, 2013 • Category: Politics

When the rival newspapers starting posting headlines like ‘Aapas Ka Caretaker’, there remains no doubt that from where the smoke is emanating. The nomination of Najam Sethi, the senior journalist from Jang / GEO group and the owner of Daily Times was a painful news for many.
Not only rival media groups of Jang group are [...]



Mandviwalla Killing Pakistani Economy at Speed of Light

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Mar 14th, 2013 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

What Shaukat Aziz, Shaukat Tareen, and Hafeez Sheikh failed to do in ten years, Saleem Mandviwalla has resolved to do in ten weeks, and is working overtime to achieve that. The goal being simple — Kill Pakistani Economy forever.
Saleem is treating Pakistan Economy like he treated Anarkali. Completely ignoring the demise of it, while working [...]



Will March See March of Army in Pakistan?

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Mar 10th, 2013 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervaiz Kayani has suddenly become very active in Karachi and the ISPR has started ‘leaking’ news into media about the critical situation in Karachi and anxiety of COAS about it, and his meeting with Zardari to discuss it.
Why on Earth, just few weeks before the elections, when the elections [...]



Are You Interested?

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Feb 28th, 2013 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

In the streets, roads, shops, colleges, net cafes, and offices of Pakistan, you will find almost everybody export o the national current affairs. In fact most of those people would be authority on any subject you would choose, and they would speak on it for hours, if you show interest.
The opinionated Pakistanis are, unfortunately, not [...]



What’s Wrong With Hassan Nisar?

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Feb 19th, 2013 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

The column Choraha in Khabrain and then his program Choraha on GEO TV was not only enticing, knowledgeable, and of excellent quality, that was also full of stable analysis. Both of them were treat for eyes and the mind, and it was a time well spent in front of TV.
Just compare his column in Dunya [...]



Young Doctors, Metro Bus and Politics

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Feb 11th, 2013 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

Why not for once in a while we were unable to celebrate and rejoice some good news in our country? Why it has to be yet another occassion to be destroyed and mauled by the political skirmish? Why we witnessed the inauguration of Metro Bus and Young doctor protest coupled with police protest in Lahore [...]



MashAllah Metro Bus Lahore

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Feb 10th, 2013 • Category: Politics

I am not PML-N and I am not PTI, and certainly not PPP, neither I am MQM nor ANP or any other political party. But whoever is going to build something for this country and its people anywhere in this country, I am certainly going to applaud that.
I would urge everyone to rise above the [...]