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Ayaz Amir Unacceptable, Najam Sethi Acceptable?

By Rohail Butt • Apr 5th, 2013 • Category: Politics

Am I or you can claim that we are more patriotic than Ayaz Amir and Najam Sethi? We thought establishment, or Tahir ul Qadri were the biggest threat for the holding of elections, but it turns out that the election commission of Pakistan is the new kid in the town to throw the spanner in [...]



End of Memogate, My Version

By Guest Blogger • Jan 30th, 2012 • Category: Politics

Has the memogate scandal come to its logical conclusion, or has it fallen victim to euthanasia.

Notwithstanding any last minute gasps, Memogate is about to expire. The key protagonists - army, opposition and judiciary - have extracted their pound of flesh and decided to apply closure.( Najam Sethi -TFT CURRENT ISSUE| January [...]



Saleem Safi versus Hamid Mir

By Maria Sultan • Oct 27th, 2011 • Category: Politics

The internal politics of the private TV channels is a strange story in itself. The most viewed channel GEO hosts some most popular journalists and the cheap battles and jealousy stories among these anchors and journalists are getting new hype because everyone wants to become number 1.
Saleem Safi and Hamid Mir have gained a new [...]



For Those Who Are Opposing Nizam-e-Adl in Swat

By Ali Yar Khan • Apr 20th, 2009 • Category: Politics

In the hearts of our heart, we know that there is no other way than striking a deal with the Taliban of Swat to bring in the peace in Malakand Agency. Yes, I am not kidding myself by saying ‘Deal With Taliban’ , because Maulana Sufi Muhammad is just an unarmed face of Maulana Fazlullah [...]



PDA Tragedy

By Ali Yar Khan • May 12th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Ayaz Amir, leading columnist of the country once wrote that,”Unexpected calamity is not tragedy. Tragedy is when you know that a certain course of action will lead to disaster but you can’t help yourself and keep marching in that direction. Inviting calamity thus is what makes for real tragedy.”
Pakistan People’s Party knew that the basic [...]



Dawn : Bring Our Ayaz Amir Back

By The Pakistani Spectator • Dec 24th, 2007 • Category: Uncategorized

By Fahd Mirza
I for one buy the Dawn newspaper of Friday just to relish the column of Ayaz Amir. For the last some years, I use to buy newspaper in the morning, read it from page to page, leaving his column for last. As I know that pleasure delayed is pleasure doubled. For the rest [...]