Zulfiqar Mirza sahib has resigned from the cabinet. In a press conference, he swore upon the Quran that MQM was behind the unrest in Pakistan. He further revealed that ambulance services in Karachi had been used for kidnapping people and for dispatching and dumping dead bodies.
It has been further revealed that the MQM had succeeded [...]
In Middle Eastern countries, we have seen a rebellion and a call for dictators to step down. And lately there has been a series of movements in India for an end to corruption. However in Pakistan, the general public seems to be waiting for a Messiah or they seem to be laid back and enjoying [...]
The bloodshed and violence that has become an epidemic in Karachi is exacerbated by the continual struggle amongst gangs from amongst the Pashtun, the Baluchis, the Sindhis and the Urdu speaking people to control the system of Bhatta and forced extortion within the city. And indeed Karachi has attained the position of being one of [...]
In our world today, the specter of materialism and greed has spawned an era where we have forgotten that the true purpose and meaning of our lives was never to live lives that centered about evils such as greed, envy, hate, lying, cheating, backbiting, swindling, usury, gambling, adultery, murder, rape, on talking back to parents, [...]
India had no legislature which could be remotely compared to the parliament in Britain. The assemblies were elected but they were not free and independent bodies. Party politics was organized largely on communal basis and within each community there were deep divisions: agricultural versus non-agricultural, urban versus rural and a host of sectarian, tribal and [...]
I recently saw a programme on GEO where an Olympic cyclist from Pakistan way back in 1960 and who won various other laurels for the nation now in his old age drives a rickshaw to support himself. Though he approached Shahbaz Sharif for help but his cries have gone unheard.
Is this the way that we [...]
An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.
Confucius
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
Confucius
The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
Confucius
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will [...]
It is amazing that when the two brothers from Sialkot were lynched and murdered in front of everyone’s eyes, no one including the police made any effort to stop the gruesome spectacle of these teenagers being beaten to death and then lynched. Similarly in a village a few days back a woman was stripped naked [...]
Men make societies and from these societies make up nations. From these very societies rise men and women who sit in power and those that make up the judiciary and others institutions in the land. It is unfortunate that in Pakistan, each man seems to be out on a mission and that is to make [...]
The latest American and Nato Incursion in Libya has been a CIA backed operation from beginning to end. There is no evidence that MOAMMAR Qaddafi is massacring his own people. Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Admiral Mike Mullen both confirmed, “We’ve seen no confirmation whatsoever”. That Qaddafi is killing his own people is text book [...]
