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Imran Khan Militia and Journalists

By Maria Sultan • Nov 20th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Candidly, I don’t find any moral or ideological considerations ingrained in intellectual framework, chalked out in pragmatic sense coupled with implementation details in any of the upbeat slogans meted out by the Imran Khan and his aggressive representatives.
If one successful rally means that Imran Khan is our next Prime Minister and Tehrik-e-Insaf holds the [...]



Refusal to Listen to Opinion

By Maria Sultan • Nov 14th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
Voltaire
For some people, its hard to understand that others canĀ  have their opinions too. They get entrenched and mesmerized by their own views and opinions so much that it irks them to no bound when someone disagrees. Liberty [...]



PTI , Ik Khawab Suhana Toot Gaya?

By Maria Sultan • Nov 12th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The edifice of any building predicts its age and starts contains the secret of the end. The thing is that many bright stars appeared on the horizon of Pakistan, but due to similar factors lost the game at the very start, or just became like others in the end.
Quaid-e-Azam was not the only leader who [...]



My Problem With Imran Khan

By Maria Sultan • Nov 10th, 2011 • Category: Politics

These days it might not be the most popular post but then who cares
Anyway, jesting apart, I am very much doubtful about the campaign of putting Imran Khan as the savior of the nation. If you step back a little and glance at the whole picture, you should see the replication of past [...]



Human Losses from Drones

By Maria Sultan • Nov 7th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Have Pakistan even not tell the United States that how much they are getting hurt in the war against terror and how much havoc their drone are wrecking on the innocent civilian lives? Those in Pakistan, and rest assured they are plenty, who consider themselves the US allies cannot tell the ally that drones are [...]



Saleem Safi versus Hamid Mir

By Maria Sultan • Oct 27th, 2011 • Category: Politics

The internal politics of the private TV channels is a strange story in itself. The most viewed channel GEO hosts some most popular journalists and the cheap battles and jealousy stories among these anchors and journalists are getting new hype because everyone wants to become number 1.
Saleem Safi and Hamid Mir have gained a new [...]



Occupy Islamabad Movement

By Maria Sultan • Oct 25th, 2011 • Category: Politics

If you ever stumble upon into Islamabad Club, Islamabad you would be surprised to find out that after the parliament lodges in the capital, this is the place where most member of parliaments, journalists, anchorpersons, reporters, moles, bureaucrats, retired and some uniformed military officers, and other movers and shakers lurk.
These days the hot topic in [...]



Unfair Hillary Clinton

By Maria Sultan • Oct 23rd, 2011 • Category: Politics

I have been a great admirer of Mrs Clinton as her distinguished career is a beacon for the women of world. But its sad to see that the lady has succumbed to the hawks in the Pentagon and is becoming the mouthpiece of war-mongers and that group in the CIA which takes pride in creating [...]



Fasih Bukhari: Wasting Life-Time Esteem

By Maria Sultan • Oct 22nd, 2011 • Category: Politics

I have known Admiral (retd) Fasih Bukhari for a very long time, when even he wasn’t an Admiral. His reputation in Navy was of a thorough professional with an added gift of seeing human side of things while not compromising on the merit and principles. His tenure as the commander of Navy is also exemplary [...]



Don’t Even Look Toward Defense Budget

By Maria Sultan • Oct 14th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

A small fraction of so call intelligentsia has been harpooning about the reduction in the defenseĀ  budget of Pakistan. This is the same group of people who raised the slogan that Asia is red and these are the same people who supported the advancing Russian forces. Then these were the same people who supported the [...]