The Pakistani Spectator

A Candid Blog


Author Archive

Exclusive Interview with Politician Fawad Chaudhry of PPP

By Ghazala Khan • May 25th, 2013 • Category: Features

1- Please tell us briefly about your childhood, education, family, and career.
I was born in 1976,my father Nassim Hussain was second son of Ch.Awais a respected farmer of District Jhelum. Ch Awais my grandfather was president of All India Muslim League District Jhelum in 1938 he was also vice chairman of District board Jhelum. Later [...]



Interview with Columnist Adiah Afraz

By Ghazala Khan • Apr 29th, 2013 • Category: Features

1. Please tell us briefly about yourself, as where you were born, grew up and studied.
I am from Lahore and have lived most of my life here. Can’t imagine being anywhere else. Studied at Kinnaird College and Government College Lahore respectively.
2. What is your inspiration to join and stay in the journalism?
My inspiration initially was [...]



Never Sell Your Jewellery, House for Any Political Party or Person

By Ghazala Khan • Apr 28th, 2013 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

Instead of exploiting poor Pakistanis for money, the political and religious parties should get into power and squeeze the money out of all those looters, plunderers, tax evaders, loan defaulters, feudal, multi-plot owner generals, lavish journalists, and holy judges. Asking money from poor Pakistanis like beating the badly injured horse to death.
Whether its the fund [...]



10 Funniest Questions Asked By Election Commission

By Ghazala Khan • Apr 5th, 2013 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

While Quaid-e-Azam would be turning violently in his grave, General Zia ul Haq must be having a ball inside there. Never before, Zia’s amendments have been implemented so vigorously and intensely as they are being now, and the watchdog is Supreme Court too.
The Islamyat books have become rare in the bookshops, as thousands of candidates [...]



Blue Area Becomes Public Toilet During Long March

By Ghazala Khan • Jan 17th, 2013 • Category: Politics

Regardless of the debate of the credibility of the Dr. Allama Tahir ul Qadri and regardless of the legalese of his Islamabad declaration, there is one issue which is very critical and is likely to haunt the people of Islamabad and to those visiting this city for a long time.
One day this long march by [...]



Live Coverage of Qadri Long March on Twitter Hash Tags

By Ghazala Khan • Jan 15th, 2013 • Category: Politics

This is important, and this is critical. Media took Tahir ul Qadri very easy and so did the government in the center. The Long March thankfully reached to Islamabad without any mishap, and as it bubbles at Jinnah Avenue in Islamabad, Tahir ul Qadri has posted his new demands.
He has revoked his agreement with Islamabad [...]



MARS and Malik Riaz

By Ghazala Khan • Aug 6th, 2012 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

In Pakistan we are haggling over simple electrolysis process in the wake of some “invention” of water-powered kit for the vehicles by an engineer from Khairpur. Unfortunately it has caught the eye of our hyper-media and now this has turned into another provincial fight as the Sindhi media and nationalists have started saying that Punjabi [...]



Paucity of Smiles in Pakistan

By Ghazala Khan • Apr 28th, 2012 • Category: Features

‘ Hum aisee qaum hain kay baray say kehkahay kay intizaar mein kabhee muskuraatay hee nahee’.
Mushtaq Ahmad Yousafi
On the foreheads of most of Pakistanis, the wrinkles of worries have become permanent. They have stopped smiling and laughing. Enjoyment, entertainment, fun, festiveness, joy, gay moments, bliss, mirth, happiness and carefree instances have lost somewhere.
We [...]



Thank You Burhan Kayatürk

By Ghazala Khan • Mar 8th, 2012 • Category: Features

My eyes got wet after reading the article by Zulfikar Ahmed Cheema in Jang about Turkey. Especially my heart got filled with emotions when I read about Burhan Kayatürk, president of the Turkey-Pakistan Cultural Association and a member of the Turkish Parliament.
We very well know that in these difficult times for the Pakistan, we have [...]



We Can But We Don’t

By Ghazala Khan • Jan 16th, 2012 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

Like I have full faith in the fact that there is God, I also have solid belief that Pakistan is here to stay, and we have everything. There is shortage of nothing. You name it, and it’s there. From electricity to gas, from minerals to water, from weathers to skills, we have everything in abundance [...]