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Posts Tagged ‘BBC’

Allah guides not the unjust people

By A Khokar • Sep 18th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Sir David Frederick Attenborough is one of the world’s most acclaimed broadcasters and naturalists. He is widely considered one of the pioneers of the  research on the life of mammals, plants and nature. He is a respected face and a voice of British natural history programmes on the media. He has endured his career as naturalist [...]



There is a limit to every resistance

By Dr RazaHaider • Jun 23rd, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

If I perceive and analyze the above criteria of resistance and force, in the conventional and traditional controversy of government functionaries and our so called resistor as retaliator, whether it may be any dick and harry, limitation of resistance will always be observed.



Dr Shahid Masood Sold Himself as Chairman PTV

By Salman Mugsi • Jun 22nd, 2008 • Category: Politics

Though there is nothing inherently bad in accepting the government job or specifically becoming the chairman of state-owned Pakistan Television, but when you see the whole scheme of things, the appointment of Dr. Shahid Masood, the anchorperson of renowned GEO News TV talk show “Meray Mutabiq” as the new chairman of the Pakistan Television reeks, [...]



Vote Mightier Than IRI Survey and BBC Globescan

By The Pakistani Spectator • Feb 14th, 2008 • Category: Pakistan Vote'08, Politics

While many western governments have supported President Musharraf’s regime in the belief that he offers the only hope of a stable, secure and prosperous Pakistan, the average citizen disagrees with this assessment.
There are lots of reasons behind this whopping assessment of common Pakistanis in all the provinces. Common man doesn’t really get interested in the [...]