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16 Dec. 1971: Dredging Debt

By Muhammad Ahsan Malick • Dec 18th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

A warning …to the people…a…reminder to the good and evil…this is debt..to the solider ..the civilian  ..the martyr…and  the victim..this is debt…a warning to the prophet..the liar and the honest, this is debt, to the leader to the pariah to the victor ..to messiah ..this is debt..For few there are few dates, there are few [...]



Muslims do not kill Muslims. Is it a Myth?

By captainjohann • Apr 3rd, 2011 • Category: Politics

In Libya is Col Gadaffi or the opposition forces real Muslims?
In Bahrain is the Saudi supported ruling clique or the protesters, the real Muslims?
In Egypt now that an Army supported regime is in place, who are the real Muslims?
In Pakistan, the daily bombings carried out by people who oppose the present regime, the TTP, the [...]



Enemy’s Intrigue Engineering - A Wake up Call

By Ibn-e-Rehmat • Mar 6th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Individual or national dreams can only be built with planning and right course of actions. If someone is keen to build a house, He will first think about his budget, determine the location to buy a plot, its size, its design, covered area, choice of the contractors etc His long list may have hundreds of [...]



Stateless in Bangladesh and Pakistan Generation of Oppressed

By Guest Blogger • Aug 25th, 2009 • Category: Politics

The following is a brief narrative of the tragic saga of a stateless minority population spread over three countries and six decades. This minority has suffered incredible atrocities in the form of mass killings, rapes, arson, confiscation of property, loss of employment, economic exploitation, mass and arbitrary denial of nationality of the scale, level and [...]



Multiple Taxation: Stop Playing Havoc With the Nation

By Farid Masood • Jun 30th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Taxes and duties are a major source of income for any government to run its functions. A government, which fails to put economic progress on the right track by introducing certain policies to give boost to industrial, human resource and business sectors, becomes totally dependent on taxation.
After selling the Cash Cows the only option remains [...]



PPP Dismembers Pakistan Again

By Mohsin Sehgal • Apr 21st, 2009 • Category: Politics

Who could forget the black year of 1971, when Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the founder of Pakistan People’s Party and the then Prime Minister raised the slogan of “Idher Hum, Udher Tum”, and sowed the seeds of division of Pakistan. The Pakistan Eastern Command agreed to surrender all PAKISTAN Armed Forces in BANGLA DESH to Lieutenant-General [...]



Book Review : ‘The Chittagong Hill Tracts: A Victim of Indian Intervention’

By Guest Blogger • Feb 11th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Mohammad Zainal Abedin in this research has reflected the problem of insurgency in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh from multi-dimensional points of view. A number of books on CHT issue are available in the realm of publication, but this book makes a distinctive and analytical approach to rethink about the long-term desire and interest [...]



Stop Swat from Becoming East Pakistan

By Haris Hashmi • Feb 9th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

It is as if the Zardari Administration set a house on fire and then blocked the fire trucks trying to put that fire out. After endorsing the Mushar-ruffian polices, these villians are now cajoling with the nation by merely putting up cosmetics gestures against the very dangerous and alarming challenges. Biggest of them is the [...]



Dhaka Fall : Let’s Unite This Time

By Muskan Hina • Dec 16th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Read the following Instrument of Surrender and wake up from the slumber. Don’t forget the history, otherwise it will repeat itself.
Instrument of Surrender Signed At Dhaka at 16:31 Hours (IST) On December 16, 1971

The Pakistan Eastern Command agrees to surrender all Pakistan Armed Force in Bangladesh to Lieu tenant-General Jagjit Singh Aurora, General Officer Commanding [...]



Its not even worth a “TAKKA”

By Saleem Khan • Jul 10th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Since my childhood, I am regularly hearing one Idiom “yeh to Takkay ka bhee nahi hai” means, its not even worth a Takka (Bangladeshi Currency). The idiom is mostly used to show worthless of any commodity or item. Why we uses Takka, not Paisa? Reason is only one, we Pakistanis always felt ourself superior and [...]