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Fauzia Kasuri All Set To Form PTI-F

By Umer Toor • Jun 6th, 2013 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

And you have guess it right. In PTI-F, the F doesn’t stand for Fazlur Rehman, it stands for Fauzia Kasuri. For the last month, this lady is being seen crying on the TV talkshows, weeping on the social media, and pleading with her party and its leader Imran Khan to honor her seventeen years of [...]



Ali Haider Gilani Kidnapping Steals Limelight from Imran Khan

By Umer Toor • May 9th, 2013 • Category: Politics

PTI’s social media tigers a.k.a abusers are quite angry as why media is giving live coverage from Multan after the alarming abduction of former Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani’s son. Tehrik-e-Insaf says that after the fall, now channels should cover Imran’s every breath and sigh live and nothing else.
Doctors from the Shaukat Khanum have declared [...]



Just BISP Can Win Elections for PPP in Punjab

By Umer Toor • May 2nd, 2013 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

So much confident the leadership of Pakistan People’s Party is for their inevitable victory in the upcoming elections in Pakistan that they are not even getting into the madness of ‘jalsa’ politics of PML-N and PTI. PPP never relied on aggressive campaigning and empty slogans and Rahat Fateh Ali songs. PPP relied on the works [...]



Why Nawaz Cannot Become PM After Next Elections

By Umer Toor • Mar 2nd, 2013 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

All the surveys and polls are unanimously declaring PML-N as the most popular party and its leader Nawaz Sharif as the most favorite candidate for the Prime Minister seat after next elections. Anchor persons and analysts in newspapers and TV are doing their arithmetic to prove the majority seats for PML-N.
There is no doubt that [...]



Kanwari Colony Karachi; Root Cause of Unrest

By Umer Toor • Feb 3rd, 2013 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

It has become stereotype to blame MQM, ANP, and PPP for any problem in Karachi. It’s true that these parties are part of the problem and are almost equally responsible for the killings and extortion in the city, but lately the issue has become far more serious, dangerous and almost out of control.
Earlier, by giving [...]



Who is Qadri to Dictate Pakistan?

By Umer Toor • Dec 26th, 2012 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

Who people we are? A Canadian citizen appears out of nowhere and start threatening our government and our system and is trying to force his aspirations with threats of agitation and we are seeing mass gatherings at his public meetings like one in Lahore.
Our system is flawed like every system in the world and we [...]



Tahir ul Qadri ; Another Shobdabaz?

By Umer Toor • Dec 24th, 2012 • Category: Politics

Isn’t it sound way too familiar what was said in the Minar e Pakistan rally of Allama Dr. Professor Sheikh etc Tahir ul Qadri? Another angel landed on the sacred land to wipe out the smear and to give salvation to the people and bring in that elusive change. We already had many saviours including [...]



Reality of Tahir ul Qadri The Sheikh ul Islam

By Umer Toor • Dec 22nd, 2012 • Category: Politics

Sheikh ul Islam is that person who has absolute and supreme authority of Islamic issues and knows it inside out and outside in. Sheikh ul Islam are experts of the Qur’an who acquire deep knowledge of its principles. Grand and noble names like Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal,  Imam al-Shafi’i and few others are called as [...]



Only Zardari Can Resolve Load-Shedding Issue

By Umer Toor • Aug 3rd, 2012 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

You know why the common people of Pakistan again and again elect the Pakistan People’s Party candidates in the bi-elections, no matter when they happen or where? You won’t find the answers in the media shows or from the armchair pundits, and from the surveys of different paid organizations. You need to rise above the [...]



Bye Bye Sharif’s of Lahore

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

One can very well understand the despair and frustration of Mian brothers. Despite of all their flashes of wealth towards judiciary and media, they remain fruitless. They triggered and carried the Memo scandal, but fell face down. They have been hatching conspiracies like crazy for the last 4 years but have [...]