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Posts Tagged ‘Corruption’

While Military awaits the orders from Supreme Courts

By A Khokar • Feb 7th, 2012 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

There has never been the time that military in Pakistan ever came in power at its own for the heck of it. It was always there on the demand of public and the politicians of the time; when they felt that a group in power has crossed all the limits of their corruption and nepotism. [...]



Lacking Reflective Perspective

By Sidrah Zaheer • Nov 19th, 2011 • Category: Features

For those people who hasten their latest car collection pompously on the roads, is it really necessary for such people who tend to have more than they actually will ever need use the roads in the same way as they live their lives? Do they really have to cover up more area and time than [...]



Spot Fixing Verdicts: Too Harsh, Too Lenient, Or Perfect?

By Mohammad Yusha • Nov 6th, 2011 • Category: Politics

By now everyone knows that Salman Butt has been sentenced to 2.5 years in jail, Mohammad Asif to a year, Mohammad Aamir to 6 months, and agent Mazhar Majeed to 2 years and 8 months. Are the sentences too harsh, too lenient, or perfect?
It is sad for Pakistan cricket. The image of the country is [...]



No Domino Effect for Pakistan

By Bilal Sulehri • Feb 9th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The yawning gap between the elite and the disempowered, job-less and oppressed Egyptians has finally forced the downtrodden to caste all their fears aside and change their destiny. The Egyptians are following footsteps of Tunisians who successfully ousted president Zain El Abidin Ben Ali who had ruled the country for more than two decades with [...]



Know Who to Blame

By Rai Azlan • Oct 28th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Last night when I was going to sleep, I was afraid. No my result was not being announced this morning, I was afraid of a progress report. Still that was not my progress report as an individual that was the progress report of us all as a nation. I am talking about the report of [...]



To Trust Or Not To Trust ……

By Mian Usman • Jul 4th, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

We are a very accommodate Nation. We forgive people who did the worst to us, we forget past of our leaders and give them an other chance to rule in a hope that they might better this time, we (the salaried people) pay our taxes despite the fact that a very little is being done [...]



Time to act

By Writer • May 25th, 2010 • Category: Lead Story

As pointed by various philosophies later turned schools of thoughts, the dreadful outcomes which a particular society face are consequences of bad deeds being performed therein. We are living in a system chained by wills projected by minds having no feelings for betterment of state or to protect the nation from clutches of further poverty [...]



That is how we do it in Pakistan!

By Mian Usman • Mar 25th, 2010 • Category: Features

We have got a different way to handle a particular situation in life. We are a totally different Nation on the face of the earth. Lets come to our leaders first, the best trait they have got is the way they hide their actual earnings and assets. They earn billions but declare thousands as their [...]



Helping Run away with Plate full of Psychiatry

By Dr RazaHaider • Oct 24th, 2009 • Category: Misc

An unseen unethical practice in suburbs of psychiatry, By Dr RazaHaider, “although, genuinely; derangement as disease, is always associated with organic affiliation of system may it be visceral or hormonal, but nevertheless; and on the other end emotional expectancy as suspicion; is also a chapter of verse in outskirt of such specialty.”



The Writing On The Wall!

By Mian Usman • Oct 23rd, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Mr. Rehman Malik has been attacked by a University Students group during his visit to the bombing site in Islamabad. Angry students who had lost their fellow students and that too the females, it is a genuine reaction from their end, the amount of money that has been spent on Rehman Malik’s Security, if half [...]