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Democracy Hurray

By Inam R Sehri • Feb 9th, 2012 • Category: Lead Story

The people are living in that part of the earth, Pakistan:
Wherein, after general elections, when Z A Bhutto’s dubious National Assembly met in Islamabad on 28th March 1977, only the PPP members had shown up. He offered to enter into a dialogue with the opposition thinking that it would settle for increased representation in [...]



Constant price hike: Save Pakistanis from hunger

By Shaukat Masood Zafar • Feb 8th, 2012 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

Pakistan is facing many serious problems nowadays, but the problem of price-rise is the most serious one. The government of Pakistan and LPG producers has recently dropped three more bombshells on the people of Pakistan by increasing the price of oil products. Though many of the petroleum products are deregulated now but broadly their prices [...]



While Military awaits the orders from Supreme Courts

By A Khokar • Feb 7th, 2012 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

There has never been the time that military in Pakistan ever came in power at its own for the heck of it. It was always there on the demand of public and the politicians of the time; when they felt that a group in power has crossed all the limits of their corruption and nepotism. [...]



Major Bottlenecks Impeding Pakistan’s Progress

By Shanzeh Iqbal • Feb 6th, 2012 • Category: Lead Story

Pakistan is in the grip of serious socio economic problem these days. Some of these problems may be ascertained as leader selection, landlord mafia, no civic minded citizenship, influx of refugees due to war in Afghanistan etc. Apart from them there are many problems due to ethnically diverse Pakistani society and migration of the literate [...]



Memo Case Ends

By Inam R Sehri • Feb 5th, 2012 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

Memogate issue is dead but it may be repeated again in some other shape as has been happening before in the checkered history of Pakistan. Some cases are not decided in the courts but the history notifies their judgments; as has been in the case of Mehran Bank Scandal of 1996. In the pages of [...]



Capital Should Be Moved Back to Karachi

By Dr. M. A. Khayal • Feb 4th, 2012 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

If the GHQ wants to remain closer to the citadel of the country so that they could easily stage the coup without traveling much and hangings of the politicians should pose no delay, they could also move their bastion to the coastal city in South.
It was our military establishment which made this colossal blunder and [...]



Why this selective morality?

By Overseas Blogger • Feb 3rd, 2012 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

Quetta (1 Feb 2012): Baloch rebels attacked security forces overnight, killing at least 11 soldiers and wounding another 12 in clashes that raged for five hours, officials said Wednesday…. These days an average approximately 10 Pakistani soldiers are getting killed in Pakistan. Yet no outrage, no change our display pictures on twitter and this news [...]



Justice and Equality - Where Pakistan Stands?

By Adil Khan • Feb 2nd, 2012 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

Countries are made and lost as a direct consequence of justice and equality within that country. R.G. Caliph Ali said “an atheistic governance system can function but an unjust system cannot”. This poses the fundamental difference between the developed world and the underdeveloped. The weak have to be dealt on an even keel with the [...]



What is Democracy?

By Dr. Haider Mehdi • Feb 1st, 2012 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself.  That, in essence, is fascism – ownership of government by an individual, by a group.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is disgusting to watch day-in and day-out the raging [...]



The Party is All But Over

By amicus • Jan 31st, 2012 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

During the PNA’s movement against Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto in 1977, an American diplomat’s phone call was intercepted in which he reportedly said: “The party is over”.
Notwithstanding the recent media hype about some imminent change ostensibly emanating from the memo and the NRO cases, does, after all not have the requisite sting to give immediate results. [...]