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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. [...]



Today’s Media in Promotion of Nationalism in Pakistan

By Nabiha Shakeel • Jan 30th, 2012 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

Nationalism plays a vital role in the construction of strong and prosperous nation. For bonding the people in the bond of nationalism, it is necessary to eliminate and evaporate the feeling of regionalism, communism, lingual etc. among themselves. Unfortunately nowadays there is a deficiency of nationalism in Pakistan. Media can  play a basic role in [...]



When the Great Game Seems Over

By Afshain Afzal • Jan 29th, 2012 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

Today, when history has once again repeated itself by inflecting humiliating defeat to the foreign intruders in Afghanistan and border areas of Pakistan, there is less chance of western world fulfilling their promises. What west has gifted to Afghanistan and Pakistan is hundreds and thousands of dead bodies of innocent Muslims. Their sins were that [...]



What will be the result of Qatar peace negotiation?

By Malik Achakzai • Jan 28th, 2012 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

Afghan Taliban are always black mailed by the Pakistani authorities, they are used as a tool of disturbance in Afghanistan since 1996 till now.
Afghan president Mr. Hamid Karzai in his briefing to media told that, “I am knowing the feelings of Afghan Taliban ready for peace negotiation with us, but they aren’t allowed since Pakistani [...]



Does the Police have a responsibility too?

By Uza Syed • Jan 27th, 2012 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

Using a fake license plate on a vehicle is a crime in all civilized countries including Pakistan. An important function of the traffic police is to ensure that they spot this crime and take action against the offenders. It is embarrassing for me to inform you, that you and your many hundred policemen failed to notice that the prime Minister of Pakistan on 19th January 2012 was driving a vehicle with a fake number plate.