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Posts Tagged ‘ANP’

Showdown Starts

By Ali Yar Khan • Oct 30th, 2011 • Category: Politics

It seems that the days of political peace have at last ended in the country and as the main opposition party PMLN decides to come on the roads and starts attacking the government, things have started boiling everywhere.
President Zardari’s investment in MQM, ANP, and PMLQ is now being tested. For now, MQM and PMLQ are [...]



Storm in a Teacup?

By amicus • Oct 30th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Mian Shahbaz Shareef was high on pitch and the rhetoric,less on substance or road map. It seems  PMLN has unlearned  the art of opposition.It needs to go back to the primer. The first lesson being connecting and forming an alliance with people and parties opposed to the incumbent Zardari led PPP-Coalition Government.
With Shahbaz Sharif kind [...]



Altaf Asfund Bhai Bhai — Mutahida Qalabazi Movement

By Maria Sultan • Sep 21st, 2011 • Category: Politics

On the surface of its a great news for the Karachi and for the Pakistan. Beneath it, there are numerous gaping and alarming questions, and they do need some answers, because the answers are more alarming and they could herald new round of bitter sentiments and bloody agitation.



Nothing is Going to Happen in Karachi Until Elections

By Ali Yar Khan • Sep 11th, 2011 • Category: Politics

Election year is coming and all the parties now want peace in Karachi until that time and they have agreed to put their turf war on hold for now. Establishment has also agreed for this and it is also in their interest because it would provide them another round of lucrative extensions. PPP, MQM, and [...]



Quran Lifting Politics in Pakistan

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Sep 10th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

I tried to watch the video press conference of Altaf Hussain live from London, which every media channel telecasted to avoid the wrath of MQM, and it was extremely hard to watch the psychopath person doing theatrics and strange antics. The mumbo jumbo of Altaf Hussain was not only incomprehensible it was also hard to [...]



India and Karachi

By Maria Sultan • Sep 8th, 2011 • Category: Politics

Karachi is the nerve center of Pakistan. We used to hear that Kashmir is the Shah Rug of Pakistan, but the reality is that Karachi is what keeps Pakistan alive and choking Karachi is akin to grab Pakistan from the throat.
The biggest danger for Pakistan still is India. India is hard at work in destabilizing [...]



Zakat and Fitrana to MQM, ANP, and PPP?

By Ali Yar Khan • Aug 26th, 2011 • Category: Politics

All three parties in Karachi who are involved in violence not only get funded by the extortion money  but they also forcibly extort Zakat and Fitrana and the animal skins from the people. Before Eid and Ramadan, these three parties fight tooth and nail to get as much Zakat and Fitrana as possible, and for [...]



5 Most Frightening Facts About Present Karachi

By Saeed Shiekh • Aug 24th, 2011 • Category: Politics

The streets of Karachi are bleeding and the people of Karachi are watching in terror their city in flames and blood. Following are the five most terrible facts right now about this city, which was once termed as the city of lights:

Common Karachiites are spending huge sums of money to get multiple national identification cards [...]



Handover Karachi to MQM and Have Peace

By Tabish Siddiqui • Aug 23rd, 2011 • Category: Politics

Whether anybody likes or not, during the Pervaiz Musharraf era, Karachi saw an ideal era of development, peace and progress. Mustafa Kamal changed the face of Karachi and made it a modern and progressive city bubbling with economic and social activities. Under the watchful eye of Altaf Hussain bhai, MQM emerged as the true saviour [...]



Mumbai and Karachi

By Salman Mugsi • Aug 21st, 2011 • Category: Politics

In the world, the biggest power is of the law. But in Pakistan things are entirely opposite. In Pakistan, the biggest power is terrorism. Our whole social fabric is now being blackmailed by the different mafias. Karachi is the mini Pakistan and it is composed of different and disparate ethnic groups, but the situation of [...]