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Flirt with Condi , Can You Believe This?

By Fatima Tassaduq • Jan 5th, 2012 • Category: Politics

In September of 2008, I wrote an article at the TPS about the flirt of our President Zardari with the then presidential aspirant of Amrica Sarah Palin, and everybody was amused at that time. It wasn’t that much incongruent as Sarah certainly has got the looks and the charms to be flirted.
But it must be [...]



Iraqi Electric Minister resigns over shortages, and Ours Buy Flat in London

By Fatima Tassaduq • Jun 22nd, 2010 • Category: Politics

The news is that the Iraq’s electricity minister Karim Waheed’s resignation came as frustration over the issue erupted into violence, with two protesters killed when security forces opened fire to disperse a crowd this weekend in the oil hub of Basra. Riot police also used water cannons after demonstrators began pelting them [...]



Pakistan and Malaysia, Turkey

By Fatima Tassaduq • May 14th, 2010 • Category: Politics

If we don’t want to look and follow the examples from the Christian or other Non-Muslim world to progress in this world, then there are examples from the Muslim world too.
Turkey and Malaysia are two illuminating instances, where besides of maintaining thier Islamic entity, both have progressed a lot. Turkey’s one foot is in Asia [...]



Women love mobiles more than men

By Fatima Tassaduq • Feb 15th, 2010 • Category: Entertainment

Many girls are more interested in their mobile phones than their men as a survey revealed. In a survey of 4,000 women living in Australia, carried out by British pawnbroker Borro to know their most treasured possessions, four in every 10 women said they would be lost without their mobiles, but would happily go without [...]



Burqa Ban

By Fatima Tassaduq • Feb 1st, 2010 • Category: Features

A new development, a new country and a new ban on the veil and the burqa. One wonders as why they are so afraid of the burqa, purda and the veil. It’s a blatant targeting of the Muslims.
Italy may soon seek a ban on full-face Muslim veils, drawing on debate in France where President Nicolas [...]



NUML rector, directors caught by own auditors

By Fatima Tassaduq • Jan 6th, 2010 • Category: Misc

The post was removed upon request of NUML Students.



Plural Karachi and Target Killings

By Fatima Tassaduq • Jan 5th, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Karachi is the lifeline of Pakistan and yet there is no sense of direction, vision and harmony to be found in this huge megapolis. The rapid development in the physical infrastructure of the city has put a new face on it, courtesy to the tireless efforts of city Nazim Mustafa Kamal, but internally the anger, [...]



UK Visa for Pakistani Students, Job Seekers and Tourists

By Fatima Tassaduq • Nov 11th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Visas to United Kingdom for the Pakistanis are now issued from the Abu Dhabi. That’s a huge hassle and huge trouble for the Pakistanis. To add insult to injury, there is a huge delay in visa processing, and that generates extreme loss to many.
Thankfully, Lord Ahmed raised this issue in front of UK government: “How [...]



Politics of Moon Sighting

By Fatima Tassaduq • Sep 19th, 2009 • Category: Politics

So are you celebrating Eid today or tomorrow or day after tomorrow? My neighbor belongs to NWFP and he is going to celebrate Eid tomorrow and I am in Punjab so I am at the mercy of federal government. Why is it that the moon always gets sighted in NWFP first, especially in the terrorism [...]



Terrorism Confusion in Pakistan Receding

By Fatima Tassaduq • Sep 14th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Just some months back, if you would have tried to take a sampling from crowd at any public place as what they thought about the terrorism in Pakistan, you would have got disparate and confusing statements. One of the biggest issues in getting such sampling together was manifest at the outset when, like the famous [...]