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Husain Haqqani Comes Out as Smiling Victor

By Umer Toor • Feb 1st, 2012 • Category: Politics

Cheikh Justice must be crying in anger as the plane of Husain Haqqani, the erstwhile ambassador and hero of Pakistan sour into air as a free man and went abroad to once again illuminate the good name of the country. Kudos to the President and Prime Minister for bringing the lad home, putting him through [...]



Iftikhar Chaudhry Should Resign After Memogate

By Umer Toor • Jan 25th, 2012 • Category: Politics

The haste of so-called Apex court was so much that they put the whole country in frenzy and uncertainty over the claims of one dubious American citizen, and they literally threatened government with severe consequences and carried on with the hearing of a baseless case.
Now the same American citizen has slapped them with a shoe. [...]



Farahnaz Ispahani Scandal with Mansoor Ijaz and Memogate

By Umer Toor • Jan 23rd, 2012 • Category: Politics

In a very condemnable and tragic turn of events, some of the anchors and their armchair strategists have started to malign the name of the Husain Haqqani and his wife, just to appease their negative appetite and to vent their jealousy and anger towards the Husain Haqqani, who has achieved a meteoric success in his [...]



Six Pack Options of Pakistani Supremo

By Umer Toor • Jan 15th, 2012 • Category: Politics

I am amazed at the distortion of the facts by a specific section of media which just wants the PPP government to quite from the rule, no matter what and no matter how. With the high court decision of six pack options, everyone of those yellow journalist is smirking with the glee that now government [...]



Only People Can Oust People’s Party

By Umer Toor • Jan 14th, 2012 • Category: Politics

What is it with the military that it abhors the Pakistan People’s Party so much? I mean what’s wrong with it? Haven’t they have it enough by murdering two of heads of PPP?
First they hung Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and then killed his daughter, the two-time Prime Minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto. They also dislodged the [...]



Is PML-N Behind Memogate

By Umer Toor • Jan 10th, 2012 • Category: Politics

So Bismillah, if Supreme Court hangs me for saying this, but the truth is that Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry wants to become the president of Pakistan for that he has to defame the President Zardari and to dislodge his government and PML-N has hatched this memo conspiracy to provide CJP just that chance.
If you [...]



Waseela Rozgar BISP Vocational Training Form Application Website

By Umer Toor • Jan 6th, 2012 • Category: Misc

Vocational training with six thousands rupees per month for the youth of Pakistan is what “Waseela-e-Haq Rozgar Scheme”; a subsidiary project of Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) is all about and its a great step for the people of Pakistan.
Not only it would help promptly to improve the skills of people it would have lasting [...]



PPP Means People’s Power for Pakistan

By Umer Toor • Jan 2nd, 2012 • Category: Politics

Where is the common sense? What has happened to the collective judgement of the society? Where has the sanity gone for some people?
The party which made the constitution, release and restored judges, gave independence to media can not be a threat to Pakistan or any other institution. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto made the [...]



Nawaz Sharif Ke Khorak - Shocking Facts by His Raiwind Chef

By Umer Toor • Dec 31st, 2011 • Category: Features

Zakir has been a chef for the last 33 years and during most of his life he has serviced the kitchen of Nawaz Sharif in Model Town, Raiwind Farm, and in Prime Minister House Islamabad. He left the job on health grounds last year and is living a quiet life in Lahore, but he never [...]



Benazir Murder Was Disastrous Than Quaid-e-Azam Death

By Umer Toor • Dec 30th, 2011 • Category: Politics

When Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah died in 1948, he was already been sidelined by Liaquat Ali Khan and his acolytes in the establishment. And also Quaid-e-Azam had completed his mission of founding the new country of Pakistan. His mission was accomplished and though his death was a very sad event, but it wasn’t a disastrous [...]