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Ethnic Discrimination in Pakistan

By Tanzeel • Jul 13th, 2009 • Category: Politics

While going through Motorway police website I came across something really interesting.  I knew there must be some point “worth discussing” in their Job form and fortunately / unfortunately a weird aspect is found which is indeed a matter of shame for the nation and for those who are against Merit.
Motorway Police Job Form gives [...]



Touching on Taboo | Partition a Blunder

By Tanzeel • Jul 2nd, 2009 • Category: Politics

Lahore: MQM chief Altaf Hussain has said the Partition of India in 1947 weakened Muslims, as it divided their power. In an interview with Najam Sethi on Duniya News, Altaf said there would have been no Partition had the Congress accepted Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s 14 points. Altaf said few people knew that even Allama Iqbal [...]



Imran’s New Drama ?

By Tanzeel • Jun 21st, 2009 • Category: Politics

PTI (Inter office memo): Lahore, An allegation from Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf intelligence wing of match fixing during the 2009 T20 World Cup final between Pakistan and Sri Lanka has been made.

PTI three-men commission, has been appointed by the PTI head Imran Khan to determine whether Pakistan’s match with Sri Lanka World Cup would be fixed on [...]



Internally DISGRACED Persons (IDPs)

By Tanzeel • Jun 2nd, 2009 • Category: Politics

Right now battle of SWAT and Rehabilitation of IDPs are the two main fronts where Pakistan is struggling for. By the grace of God our forces have almost accomplished the task and successfully destroyed major militants’ hideouts but regrettably the excuse for fighting this war is still there. Some days back our [...]



Domestic Violence

By Tanzeel • May 18th, 2009 • Category: Misc

“If a person gives 1,200 riyals (320 dollars) to his wife and she spends 900 riyals (240 dollars) to purchase an abaya from a brand shop, and if her husband slaps her on the face as a reaction to her action, she deserves that punishment,” Saudi Judge
Surprisingly domestic violence is a rapidly growing problem of [...]



Pakistan’s Armed Politics

By Tanzeel • May 14th, 2009 • Category: Politics

A country which is yearning for peace and stability since ages has again turned into a battle ground by her very own democratic forces.  Its quite surprising that we blame  Military and Taliban for being non democratic and getting every job done through GUN but conveniently ignore the rapidly spreading gun culture into our politics.
From [...]



Swat deal, A clever tactical maneuver ?

By Tanzeel • May 9th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Swat peace deal with TNSM was met with mixed reactions. Some breathed a sigh of relief hoping for revival of peace in the valley, some reacted very strongly against it saying that it would do no good, and rest were clueless. The West and US had very strong reservations of the peace [...]



Taliban activate in Karachi

By Tanzeel • May 2nd, 2009 • Category: Politics

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Finally, Karachi that happened to be comparatively a peaceful city of Pakistan has also witnessed a horrendous carnage. On April 29, at least 31 people were killed in a growing wave of violence across the city.

As always, everyone has his version of story and interestingly all political parties are indulging in point scoring. For almost [...]



Divided We Stand United We Fall

By Tanzeel • Apr 23rd, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Instead of waging war on the ones who have brutally murdered our Pakistani brothers, slaughtered our soldiers, bombed girls schools, blasted barber and CD shops, shot innocent women, our nation is proudly engaged in fighting a war against MQM on various fronts.

Be it parliament, media or internet our patriotic nation has again proved themselves united [...]



Islamic Republic of Taliban

By Tanzeel • Apr 16th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Finally the gun totting custodians of Islam through their “holy campaign of terror” have introduced the “Rule of Allah” in one of the most beautiful parts of Pakistan and regrettably the imposition of Talebani Shariah at gun point has unanimously been approved by the Pro-Taleban Pakistani parliamentarians except MQM which has shown some serious reservations [...]