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Posts Tagged ‘Doaba’

The “Rat People” of Pakistan

By Saleem Khan • Sep 14th, 2008 • Category: Politics

You may have read a big news entitled “Rat people forced to beg on Pakistan’s streets“. It was a real shocker to read and, tells of the worst, beyond imaginable, child labour industry. There’s a children’s rights issue you may wish to look into which concerns a very extreme and horrifying form of [...]



Test of Asif Zardari’s Smile

By Ch. Naeem Sidhu • Sep 13th, 2008 • Category: Politics (Urdu)


Time to Act, Mr. President

By Talal Hussain Malik • Sep 11th, 2008 • Category: Politics

A joke goes that a suicide bomber was going to hit his target. Just when he reached there he pushed the button of the bomb attached to his vest. The bomb did not blast because of some manufacturing fault but due to shock and a sense of being torn into pieces the suicide bomber fainted. [...]



‘A Strategy for Pakistan’

By A Khokar • Sep 5th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Daily Washington Post wrote an Editorial on 2 August 2008 under the caption; ‘A Strategy for Pakistan’ and says;The United States must support the new democratic government but also do what is needed to stop al-Qaeda.
To read more please Link; http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/01/AR2008080102880.html
In what ever way panel members on the Washington post editorial, portrays US [...]



Another morning…the dawn of another new day…?

By fzuberi • Aug 23rd, 2008 • Category: Misc

“Another morning…the dawn of another new day…”
I wish I could say that, but I can’t. Yesterday saw the death of 60 of my brothers…today when I thought that this new day might bring some consolation to the tears shed yesterday …another explosion…this time a time device targeted on a police inspector…
Well, to [...]



The Challenge of Talibanization and the New Great Game

By amicus • Aug 20th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

 

After the traumatic events of 1971, Pakistan is faced with the most serious crisis in its political history. The Taliban are not knocking at the door, they are now a part and parcel of Pakistani state and society. The process of Talibanization in Pakistan’s north-western region has given rise to new tensions in the body-politic [...]



Independence Day —– Are we really Independent ?

By Ausaf Ahmad • Aug 9th, 2008 • Category: Misc

As we all know Independence Day is near and Happy Independence Day to all of you in Advance. Yesterday I was going through the article “Putli Tamasha” of Mr. Farooq Qaiser on Jung (7-8-2008). Which was about Independence …………… the following questions comes to my mind after reading his article
Are we really independent …… ?
Do [...]



Focussed Statements By Barack Obama

By Ali Yar Khan • Jul 22nd, 2008 • Category: Politics

The mounting attacks on the NATO forces in Afghanistan has given enough ammunition to the Afghan and US officials to blame and suspect respectively the militants in the tribal region of Pakistan. After every attack on the NATO forces or on the Afghan forces, the Afghan President blames and threatens the Pakistan.
But NATO forces have [...]



No New 9/11

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Jul 16th, 2008 • Category: Politics

The option of negotiations with the Taliban is not bad, but they are useless with a very glaring and decisive prerequisite. The prerequisite of negotiations must be that Talibans should recognize and admit that there cannot be two parallel governments in the country, and then the negotiations should be held between the Pakistani government and [...]



Shrouded They Stand

By Salman Mugsi • Jul 15th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Talibans or no Talibans, more than two millions of brave tribesmen have charged up and they are ready to take on any aggression from the Afghanistan side, face up.
As hundreds of United States led NATO troops armed with their helicopters, tanks, mortars and high-tech weapons have started arriving since last night near the bordering areas [...]