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Don Hasan

By Talal Hussain Malik • Jul 27th, 2011 • Category: Politics

Don Hasan, the notorious car lifter also known as Major Muhammad Hasan from behind the bars has volunteered to give names of those who are involved in the crime of stealing cars. According to him several big names from among the Police department and politicians are also involved in it. Tough times for the Don, [...]



The Man Killed Thrice

By Talal Hussain Malik • May 13th, 2011 • Category: Politics

WHERE there is blood there is the United States of America, the axis of all evils. The unrest created by America has made this generation see light of the day where human life has become worthless. Be it poor masses of the present day falling victim to the drone attacks in Pakistan or those killed in the Hiroshima episode in 1945, all speak volumes about the atrocities carried out by the USA. America’s attitude toward countries like Pakistan can be understood by the Raymond Davis incident, when a US diplomat can enjoy the license to kill and move free without reprimand, you can assume that a US soldier is a demigod and wonder where their president stands.



The Armed Diplomat

By Talal Hussain Malik • Feb 8th, 2011 • Category: Politics

IT is the first incident of its kind in this land of the pure where two civilians were brutally shot dead in broad daylight on an open road by a foreign national, allegedly a ‘diplomat’. A nation where scores of people are killed in drone attacks every week and where ‘diplomats’ carry arsenal for reasons [...]



2010 Gone

By Talal Hussain Malik • Dec 23rd, 2010 • Category: Features

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness” when Charles Dickens wrote these opening lines of A Tale of Two cities he didn’t know that these lines would so aptly describe the plight of a South Asian country [...]



The Sialkot Lynch

By Talal Hussain Malik • Aug 25th, 2010 • Category: Politics

THE electronic and print media, these days, is making hue and cry about the ruthless killing of two brothers in Sialkot who were beaten to death by the mob and their dead bodies hanged to the poles. The media reported the gruesome murder of two innocent brothers in the holy month of Ramzan, however, as [...]



DamNs

By Talal Hussain Malik • Aug 2nd, 2010 • Category: Features

Water flowing over or water at the dead level; we either get lot of rains or we don’t get them at all. In a country like ours’ where a big resource of power generation is through the reserved water from dams the necessity for construction of more dams heightens even more when the consumption of [...]



Facebook Banned

By Talal Hussain Malik • May 20th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Facebook has finally been banned in Pakistan, a step that I really appreciate a lot. It is such a shame to what extent the so-called educated societies of the developed world would fall on the pretext of freedom of thought and expression, and hurt the religious sentiments of Muslims. They have done this before and [...]



The Battle Begins…Again

By Talal Hussain Malik • Feb 15th, 2010 • Category: Politics

WHEREAS for other nations a situation like this would mean catastrophe as the nation goes off the track being driven into uncertainty through a clash of the departments, for us this is now a routine, so its like we are now back on the track, back on the track where we have spent most of [...]



Want Peace?

By Talal Hussain Malik • Dec 8th, 2009 • Category: Politics

“Ek kunwain may ek kutta gir gya, kuch log is kunwain kay pani ko pak krne k lye Molvi k pas gaye. Molvi ne kaha k 200 balti nikalo, kunwa pak ho jae ga. Mugr kuch din baad pani se smell aane lagi. Log dosray Molvi k pad gaye. Os ne kaha 400 balti pani [...]



Shameless

By Talal Hussain Malik • Oct 30th, 2009 • Category: Politics

IT is this country we live in. It is unfortunate for our hapless nation to have a ruling class which is without a conscience, indifferent to the pain that the masses are going through. When the masses were shedding tears over the Peshawar massacre, our leaders were busy welcoming Hillary with smiling faces. No matter [...]