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Basant: A Composite Heritage

By Guest Blogger • Mar 20th, 2012 • Category: Politics

This world is a blend of divergence. Different societies are mixture of different casts, creeds, colors, faiths, and other diversities. This is also a human dilemma to appreciate similarity. Dissimilarity is often disapproved rather men try to destroy the unlikeness. This is the major psychology hidden behind different wars and genocides.
Even religion and modern education [...]



Profile of Zaheerul Islam DG ISI

By Guest Blogger • Mar 10th, 2012 • Category: Politics

DG ISI appointment of Lt. General Zaheerul Islam has created quite ripples and the news has spread to all the nooks and corners and it shows how important this is for the region and for the world.
Lieutenant General Muhammad Zaheerul Islam is the 18th Director General of the ISI since 1959, the year [...]



Kalay Jadoo Ka Tor in Pakistan Online

By Guest Blogger • Mar 3rd, 2012 • Category: Mystic Matters

Are you having difficulties or problems with family, money, love, marriage, children, education, career, work or business? Do you need to rid a curse or remove black magic (black magic removal), or you need to bring or get your ex lover, boyfriend, wife or husband back? Or find the perfect life partner with kundli matching? [...]



Munawar Hussain Tarar of PTI Implements CHANGE

By Guest Blogger • Mar 1st, 2012 • Category: Politics

The lower middle class of Pakistan which is sliding rapidly into the poverty largely is tilting towards the Imran Khan and his party and his promises of change. Like many others, I also held lots of respect and hope for the Imran Khan and his party and I was especially jubilant when I saw that [...]



Want to Celebrate Valentine’s or Want to Remain in Islam?

By Guest Blogger • Feb 14th, 2012 • Category: Politics

This is not our festival, mind you. This is the Roman type of festival and doesn’t belong to us. We really don’t know about its root, but one thing is certain that this isn’t in our history and it isn’t in our culture, so why celebrate it?
14th Feburary is the day of Yono goddess in [...]



End of Memogate, My Version

By Guest Blogger • Jan 30th, 2012 • Category: Politics

Has the memogate scandal come to its logical conclusion, or has it fallen victim to euthanasia.

Notwithstanding any last minute gasps, Memogate is about to expire. The key protagonists - army, opposition and judiciary - have extracted their pound of flesh and decided to apply closure.( Najam Sethi -TFT CURRENT ISSUE| January [...]



Pension by Easy Paisa Telenor and EOBI Scheme by Mobile Phone

By Guest Blogger • Jan 8th, 2012 • Category: Misc

You cannot believe how much hassle pensioners in Pakistan have to go through in this old age just to get the meager pension. Banks and their staff is as lazy, rude, and at times over-worked to really give due care and respect to these senior citizens.
But now EOBI, the Employees Old Age Benefit Institute and [...]



Ghulam Server Khan of Taxila Joins PTI

By Guest Blogger • Dec 20th, 2011 • Category: Politics

I am a regular and veteran reader of TPS and belong to the Wah/Taxila region of Pakistan. I am one of those silent middle-class voiceless Pakistanis who are coward enough to not to write or comment or protest but who feel the pain of the Pakistan. When Imran Khan emerged recently, I decided to vote [...]



Saving Pakistan Cricket and PTV!

By Guest Blogger • Dec 16th, 2011 • Category: Politics

There are two things which I don’t watch or try not to watch these days, namely television and cricket. If you ask me, I find both of them disgustingly commercial and repulsively vulgar. Firstly, cricket. I am obliged to quote Oscar Wilde’s famous brainy quote of “not every crime is vulgar, but every vulgarity is [...]



how to watch geo news live on internet 2011 2012

By Guest Blogger • Nov 23rd, 2011 • Category: Misc

Many people especially those who live in America , Australia , Europe , Saudi Arabia, Dubai, UAE, and in other countries want to watch GEO News and other news channels of Pakistan live on Internet , but it seems that they have very few options to watch these channels.
The popularity and relevance of news bulletins, [...]