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Atif Aslam Wedding Photos and Youtube Video

By Fatima Tassaduq • Mar 27th, 2013 • Category: Entertainment

Lots of girls have lost the race to marry Atif Aslam to Sara Bhirwana of Kannaird College Lahore. Former Miss KCite, and seven year love of Atif Aslam has at last tied the wedding knot with the famous pop singer Atif Aslam in Lahore in a graceful ceremony.
Atif Aslam and Sara know each other and [...]



Asma Jehangir Is That Bad?

By Fatima Tassaduq • Feb 8th, 2013 • Category: Politics

As soon as PML-N leaked it’s list of would-be caretaker Prime Ministers, all hell broke loose. There were six names, but only the name of Asma Jehangir, the human rights activist and lawyer, was picked up and thrashed all over the place.
Shaheen Sehbai from America started hurling filth at the daughter of Asma Jehangir. PTI [...]



Why Muharram 9,10 So Difficult in Pakistan?

By Fatima Tassaduq • Nov 21st, 2012 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

If you are wearing some religious, ethnic or sectarian glasses then please put them down before reading this blog post, otherwise I would urge you to find something else to read.
Before I write on this so-called sensitive topic, let me assure you that I don’t belong to any sector of Islam, and I am plain [...]



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, [...]