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Posts Tagged ‘crisis’

Right from the Chamber

By Rai Azlan • Sep 17th, 2009 • Category: Features

Some times I feel that it so nice to be ignorant. Avoiding newspapers and don’t bothering news channels is a fun. The reason I can figure out is that when ever I became regular with news and current affairs most of the times I become depressed; and just to avoid becoming hopeless I try to [...]



Crisistan

By Talal Hussain Malik • Aug 22nd, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

It’s a tough weather, the summer, and it is getting intense every year. To add more to misery is the power shortage problem. When the hot season was in its full swing the government tried to solace the public by saying that the power shortage problem would be completely dealt with by December this year. Pardon me, for I have a weak memory, but I remember similar promises were made last year but forgotten completely with the rising of the summer sun. Bloody summer!



October 8 : Not to forget

By ALE-Xpressed • Oct 8th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Today marks the third anniversary of disastrous earthquake that hit northern Pakistan, especially Kashmir and parts of India and Afghanistan. More than a hundred thousand people lost their lives. Since then, even with millions and millions of rupees coming into the country for reconstruction and development in those parts of Kashmir affected by the tragedy, [...]



Are we digging the well again? Pakistan Election 2008

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Feb 17th, 2008 • Category: Pakistan Vote'08, Politics

8th general elections are going to happen tomorrow in Pakistan. Since our independence in 1947 from the British colonial rule, elections have been arranged in the fatherland, but there was no continuity in them, though nation took part in every election with fervour.
Elections were manipulated every time. Political cells of agencies affected the polling, political [...]



February 18th 2008 Election in Pakistan

By Ali Yar Khan • Feb 14th, 2008 • Category: Pakistan Vote'08, Politics

Whatever the outcome of the February 18th elections, the irrefutable consequences of the continuing crisis of flour, gas, food and other social ills and not to forget in any case the terrorist attacks both bomb blasts and the suicidal attacks and extremist violence in the NWFP province is the erosion of the writ [...]



Salivating Opposition and Shining Musharraf

By Muskan Hina • Feb 12th, 2008 • Category: Pakistan Vote'08, Politics

President Musharraf is fully committed to holding the free, fair and peaceful elections in the country, and it seems that only he is worried about in this regard, while others want to play flute while watching Pakistan burning.
Respectable lawyers, who should be in courts following the cases are on the roads while throwing stones and [...]



Planned Emergency

By The Pakistani Spectator • Jun 8th, 2007 • Category: Uncategorized

If we take a look upon proceedings of post 9th March scenario, and analyze the situation deeply the question blinks in mind ‘Are we being headed towards a planned and engineered state of emergency’.
In past eras, emergency in any country was declared due to agitation by the general public. This may be the first time [...]



Lawyers Unity

By The Pakistani Spectator • May 1st, 2007 • Category: Uncategorized

The legal community across the Pakistan has shown an un-precedented unity and resolve. The last time it did so, nothing could hinder it, and the people triumphed.
Ruffled by the unity and resentment shown by the legal commuity all over the country, the rulers first tried to cow them down by extremem savagery and brute [...]