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Posts Tagged ‘Bushra’

STOP Violence Against Women

By Saleem Khan • Jul 17th, 2008 • Category: Misc, Worth A Second Look

Despite efforts by non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and government functionaries, the state of violence against women is turning from bad to worse. Incidents of dissecting women’s body organs in cases of domestic violence are also matter of concern for the authorities concerned.
A report launched by a civil society organisation on the situation of violence against women [...]



Brunch with Bushra

By Dawar Naqvi • Jun 16th, 2008 • Category: Misc

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.
This is what my close friend told me after watching TV program broadcasted by GEO TV “Brunch with Bushra”
in which MQM Chief Altaf Hussain was the guest.
 
My friend lives in USA for a long time.
He was almost hopeless for the future [...]



When Mother Sells Children

By Ghazala Khan • Apr 20th, 2008 • Category: Misc, Worth A Second Look

The country’s economic landscape is in shambles and the so-called trickle-down effect of Shaukat Aziz’s economic reforms are nowhere to be seen. But that doesn’t answer the call of stomach and that is not suffice to appease the hellish appetite of uncontrollably weeping children.
In the first place there is shortage of everything. From wheat to [...]



Suicide Rise in Pakistan

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Apr 15th, 2008 • Category: Misc

The newly elected chief minister Dost Mohammad Khosa has gleefully shown the CM secretariat in Lahore and have told us that how lush push things were in the former regime, and how he intends to form an IT University in Lahore for women.
Dost Mohammad Khosa must also read the letter left by a lady Bushra [...]