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Expats to pay up to $150m a month to call Pakistan, Strange!!

By Guest Blogger • Oct 3rd, 2012 • Category: Misc, Pakistan Vote'08

Shorter distances by calls are now ending by charging heavy bills. International clearing house (ICH) rule is going to be operative in the country from 1st Oct, Now in order to talk to dear ones overseas Pakistanis have to pay about $120-150 million per month. According to PTA these rates are increased just to control [...]



Obama’s Speech is Good But World Need Action

By Shayan Khan • Jun 7th, 2009 • Category: Pakistan Vote'08, Politics, Politics (Urdu), Worth A Second Look

Barack Obama, Yes you can, but you cannot if you merely keep giving lip service to the people of the world. Your glossy speeches heavily sprinkled with lofty words, noble ambitions and promising future are very welcome, but we have over the years grown very apprehensive and wary of such ornamental rhetoric, and now want [...]



Mutah : Should It Be Implemented as Law?

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Apr 20th, 2009 • Category: Pakistan Vote'08, Politics

The Law and Justice Commission of Pakistan, in its meeting here, has discussed the proposal of “Post-Divorce Muta” for wives as ordained in the Holy Quran by revisiting the half-century-old Muslim Family Law Ordinance 1961 and the West Pakistan Family Courts Act 1964 keeping in view the changing needs of the society. The commission observed [...]



Will Barack Hussein Bring Change to FATA?

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Jan 25th, 2009 • Category: Pakistan Vote'08, Politics

As America is poised to change itself under the new and dynamic leadership of Barack H. Obama, the only superpower should also understand that they cannot change themselves in the vacuum. Already people are questioning the rationale behind the closing down of Gitmo bay and barring CIA from having interrogation cells abroad.
Though these measures are [...]



FORGET PAST – FOCUS ON FUTURE

By Rohail Butt • Feb 20th, 2008 • Category: Pakistan Vote'08, Politics

The political leader should not be (only) judged or voted on the basis of his performance, one should also see that whether this leader can represent our emotions and our thoughts. Peoples in Pakistan mostly say that we will vote that person who had done something for us, who has made roads, fly overs, who [...]



Zardari, Nawaz You Cannot Turn Your Back Now

By Ali Yar Khan • Feb 20th, 2008 • Category: Pakistan Vote'08, Politics

So the voters have stated that what they want in Pakistan loud and clear putting PML-Q in electoral oblivion. After the ignominious routing of PML-Q in General Elections in Pakistan, now all eyes are set on the political leaders of PPP and PML-N.
Yesterday, both Asif Ali Zardari and Mian Nawaz Sharif have categorically demanded from [...]



SMS Contributed the Downfall of Q-League

By Farid Masood • Feb 20th, 2008 • Category: Pakistan Vote'08, Politics

There were many claims from PML-Q that we will win the elections based on our performance of development works and some others efforts to mis-guide the masses.
On the other end people were much depressed due to price hikes and hoarding issue and wanted to get rid of looters. I am not saying it because they [...]



A Recall to an Older Artilce: Wind of Change

By Farid Masood • Feb 20th, 2008 • Category: Misc, Pakistan Vote'08

It was TPS who felt and the change is appearing on the National horizon and wrote and analysis on it, on May 18th, 2007 under the title Wind of Change
The wind of change has blown and swept



The Dead Line March 9th

By Farid Masood • Feb 20th, 2008 • Category: Pakistan Vote'08, Politics

The Lawyer had announced one day before elections that Mach 9th is the dead line for the new government to re-instate judiciary. This date last year was the day when Chief Justice of Pakistan Mr Justice Iftikhar Chaudhary (who is currently under house arrest for many months) was called to Presidency camp office, Rawalpindi, and [...]



Musharraf Has to go ; Iftikhar Has to come

By Sameer Shaharyar • Feb 20th, 2008 • Category: Pakistan Vote'08, Politics

Makhdoom Javed Hashmi is a darling. Even after winning three national assembly seats from different constituencies of Punjab, he is still the same down-to-earth cool figure. Atta Man, loved by millions in this land of pure, and he has done wonders in these elections and have punctured the cycles of many.
He has reiterated that they [...]