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PPP Targeting Punjab

By Rohail Butt • Feb 3rd, 2012 • Category: Politics

With pain and sadness I am writing this post. I really don’t like to talk about the provincial and ethnic disharmony, but now the water has risen above the heads, as the federal government in Islamabad has started playing politics on the corpses in the Punjab.
It was a common knowledge in Punjab that Pakistan People’s [...]



How to Earn Money Like Zardari

By Rohail Butt • Jan 28th, 2012 • Category: Features

Have you heard about that bank guy in Karachi who succumbed to the rumors of Zardari fleeing the country in December 2011, and siphoned off 15 crore rupees and escaped to Malaysia? Zardari returned, found the embezzlement and that guy was arrested from Malaysia and brought back and money recovered.
That’s not the way to earn [...]



In PPP, Even License Get Martyred

By Rohail Butt • Jan 18th, 2012 • Category: Politics

After Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Shahnawaz Bhutto, Murtaza Bhutto, and Benazir Bhutto the Pakistan People’s Party has got another martyr to claim.
After being temporarily stripped out of his license to legal practice by the Supreme Court on Tuesday, Babar Awan said his license got ‘Shaheed (martyred)’ in the battle of getting justice on [...]



Who Paid Mansoor Ijaz?

By Rohail Butt • Jan 16th, 2012 • Category: Politics

Rehman Malik tried to implicate the leadership of PML-N and implied that Nawaz Sharif was behind the memogate conspiracy, and Nawaz Sharif paid Mansoor Ijaz to create fissures and confrontation between the military establishment and PPP government.
Military establishment refused to accept this excuse from Rehman Malik and demanded the head of the Husain Haqqani which [...]



May Allah Save Pakistan from Imran Khan

By Rohail Butt • Jan 12th, 2012 • Category: Politics

I know many of my friends who are an ardent supporters of Imran Khan and his PTI, but they also become frustrated and angry and doubtful over the statements and the actions of their chief star.
It is true that Imran Khan sometimes frustrates even his own supporters.  For instance, many of his supporters are wondering [...]



Last Days of the PPP Government

By Rohail Butt • Jan 11th, 2012 • Category: Politics

Decisions have been made, new directions have been given, players have been informed, and the present dispensation of the Pakistan People’s Party wants to save something for them while they cling desperately to the last straws of their not-so-bright rule.
President Asif Ali Zardari is once again scheduled to be on the run. President’s sudden [...]



Supreme Court Opens Coffin of PPP Government

By Rohail Butt • Jan 10th, 2012 • Category: Politics

The last rituals of Zardari regime have started. Funeral will be held shortly or will they be cremated? Anyway, the pallbearers have started flexing their muscles and Apex Court has turned open the lid from the coffin of this dispensation, which is the most corrupt and incompetent, Pakistan has ever seen.
A five member bench of [...]



Babar Awan Playing with Supreme Court

By Rohail Butt • Jan 7th, 2012 • Category: Politics

It’s quite embarrassing and shameful for us as a nation to watch silently the way our ruling ministers are treating the Apex court and its orders. They are showing little if any respect for the judges and their proceedings and sparing no chance to ridicule them.
It has become a common practice for the ministers, especially [...]



Character Assassination of Sharif Family

By Rohail Butt • Jan 1st, 2012 • Category: Politics

“My greatest challenge has been to alter the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see.”
Muhammad Younas
(Founder of Grameen Bank)
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely right. Ironically, the PML-N led by the Sharif brothers is in [...]



Chaudhry Nisar Destroying PML-N, Javed Hashmi First Casuality

By Rohail Butt • Dec 25th, 2011 • Category: Politics

Within the inner circles of the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz, the resentment and anger against the opposition leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan is rising rapidly. He has never been the most popular figure in the party, but has always enjoyed an absolute support of the party head Nawaz Sharif.
Chaudhry Nisar’s relevancy and power comes due [...]