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Balochistan Fire Reaches to Quaid-e-Azam Residency in Ziarat

By Tazeen • Jun 15th, 2013 • Category: Politics

I wouldn’t say that Dr. Abdul Malik Baloch is sleeping, but it’s a rude awakening for his whole new administration as the rockets have been fired at one of the most revered icon places in Pakistan.Three rockets were fired from unknown location in Ziarat, breaking out fire at Quaid e Azam Residency, police said. According [...]



Is JUI-F Invovled in Killing of Farid Khan of PTI in Hungu?

By Tazeen • Jun 4th, 2013 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

Terrorists and other anti-social elements hijacked the Khyber Pukhtunkhwa province by assassinating the elders of the tribes and the elected representatives of Awami National Party in the last five years. It seems they have started doing the same to the newly elected Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaaf government. Farid Khan’s day light shooting seems to be the start [...]



Avoiding Attitude of Imran Khan

By Tazeen • May 27th, 2013 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

I am perplexed to understand as why the chairman Imran Khan, a.k.a Captain is shirking from taking part in national happenings. He didn’t attend the Chinese Prime Minister various functions when he was in Pakistan, he didn’t go to Karachi to condole for the assassination of his own party leader Zahra, and he is not [...]



PTI Needs to Learn to Accept Defeat Gracefully

By Tazeen • May 13th, 2013 • Category: Politics

It’s not end of the world and its not the last elections in Pakistan. I am thoroughly disappointed by the reaction shown by the Tehrik-e-Insaaf supporters on the social media. It seems they themselves don’t have any idea what they are saying, and its all hue and cry. They have genuine complaints about MQM’s conduct [...]



PTI’s Naya Khyber Pukhtunkhwa

By Tazeen • May 12th, 2013 • Category: Politics

The ‘Naya Pakistan’ slogan of Pakistan Tehrik -e-Insaaf hasn’t died or gone out of date. Rather they have risen to the reality and they have got their golden and shiny chance of materializing that slogan with a bang. They have wiped out the ANP from that province and have also made PPP redundant.
Any party needs [...]



Zindabad Murdabad

By Tazeen • May 6th, 2013 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

Spectacle is on again. Same battery of public gatherings being flashed on the TV channels with people dancing, waiving flags, chanting slogans, falling on each other to see the glimpse of the leaders foaming at their mouths. Tall claims, deep promises, insane commitments, and unbelievable courtesies are being shown. This is election campaign in Pakistan.
I [...]



Should Muslims Avoid Twitter and Facebook?

By Tazeen • Mar 25th, 2013 • Category: Features

I wonder that when Saudi clerics speak, do they speak about the whole Muslim Ummah or do they speak only for the Saudis? When a top Saudi religious leader bashes Twitter, for whom he speaking for? Because recently a top cleric said about Twitter that it “invited [people] to throw charges between them, and to [...]



Caretaker Drama in Pakistan

By Tazeen • Mar 13th, 2013 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

General elections in Pakistan 2013 are around the corner. Not much time has left, and still there is complete uncertainty and blackout about the caretaker setup in Islamabad and in the provinces. I am sure this is being done on purpose, as both PPP and PML-N don’t want to discuss this with the smaller parties [...]



Future for Our Kids in Pakistan

By Tazeen • Feb 25th, 2013 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

Election 2013 in Pakistan still seem very distant and elusive. I don’t know what would happen before those elections and how much blood would be shed. Nobody is certain whether these elections will ever materialize. The political parties are tepidly reaching out to people, and still there is no frenzy or tempo of the elections.
The [...]



Royal Raja in London

By Tazeen • Feb 16th, 2013 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

It seems begums of our premiers love shopping in London. First we came to know that our former first lady, the wife of one Yousaf Raza Gilani went on a shopping spree in the Harrods London. So much so that even Harrods staff was shocked. Now its the turn of our current Shah, whose begum, [...]