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Posts Tagged ‘Democracy’

Why the USA and Establishment are Afraid of 2013 Elections?

By captainjohann • Jan 24th, 2013 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

The Zardari rule of Mr. 10% is coming to end.According to most of observers this rule was full of in efficiency, corruption, mismanagement etc.The Supreme court was against the regime from the beginning and an able PM in the form of Gillani was removed on its diktat.
Then there was the Memo gate and Osama raid, [...]



The filth we call democracy

By Shaukat Masood Zafar • Oct 4th, 2012 • Category: Lead Story

Pakistani elite are looting the poor today, which has never been this bad since independence. Pakistan is badly impregnated with corruption. Police are corrupt, laws are corrupt, and anybody who holds an official post is corrupt. The higher the post, the bigger the bribe rate. Our politicians and their ally bureaucrats are not less than [...]



Democracy: an empty ritual in South Asia

By Fayyaz Ahmed Mughal • Jul 9th, 2012 • Category: Lead Story

Most of the countries in South Asia underwent cataclysmic changes because of changing socio-economic and political landscape. The dynamics of South Asian politics are more shaped by their internal socio-economic and political interests rather than enforced by the forces outside their territorial boundaries. Although South Asia witnessed a great diversification on political, social and economic [...]



Democracy is the best Revenge

By Asad ur Rehman • Jun 6th, 2011 • Category: Politics

When Benazir Bhutto (Shaheed) returned to Pakistan after a self imposed exile she was asked by reporters that “Do she intends to take revenge from anyone?” and she replied that “Democracy is the best revenge. She had clearly expressed that she had no grudge towards anyone and if she gets successful in bringing back democracy in Pakistan that



10 Reasons Why I don’t trust Super Power

By Asad ur Rehman • Apr 6th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

America is the super power of the world. I don’t have any personal grudges with American citizens or the country itself. There are number of factors on the basis of which I have no faith in American governments.



The Healthy Signs

By Farid Masood • Feb 16th, 2010 • Category: Features

Chief Justice of Pakistan recommended Justice Saqib Nisar (a judge of Lahore High Court) for appointment in Supreme Court and Chief Justice Lahore High Court Justice Khawaja Sharif to remain at his seat. Government had turn down his proposal and did it vice versa exposing the intensions to politicize senior Judiciary.
This act of government created [...]



Bumper Sticker of the Year

By Mir Adnan Aziz • Jan 23rd, 2010 • Category: Entertainment


There is Sure a Silver Lining on the Horizon

By A Khokar • Jan 1st, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Pakistan was created on the bases of two nation’s theory to secure a separate ideological homeland for Muslims in the Indian subcontinent. But soon after the inception of Pakistan, this nation  plunged into a deluge of turmoil that its two founding fathers Muhammad Ali Jinnah; the Qaid e Azam and PM Liaqat Ali Khan; their [...]



Democracy an assertive terminology for Ignorance

By Dr RazaHaider • Oct 23rd, 2009 • Category: Politics

“Democracy is a real menace especially for the society where ignorance supervenes; and hazards due to this selection are always fearsome as we see in countries like Pakistan”



The Resilient Nation that We Are

By Hassan Amin • Jul 1st, 2009 • Category: Politics

Our gallant Pakistan Army and Air Force are destroying all Taliban hideouts in our Pakhtoonkhwa province (formerly NWFP) and in Tribal Regions bordering Afghanistan. Hundreds of terrorists have been killed; hundreds other apprehended. Encouraged by the Army’s operation against miscreants, the local people of the tribal areas have also risen up and are actively assisting [...]