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Posts Tagged ‘economy’

Transfers at large

By Talal Hussain Malik • Apr 27th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Change in the government has its consequences. Just when everything is in a topsy-turvy the government decided to add more to it. To that effect are the transfers of the government officials from different departments.
It is yet unknown as to who the face behind these mass transfers. Presumably, the transfer of a single government servant [...]



Why PPP is Delaying Judges Reinstatement

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Apr 25th, 2008 • Category: Politics

The new round of rigmarole created by Pakistan People’s Party has done what the doctor prescribed for the General (r) Musharraf. The more delay in the restoration of the judges and the more frustration among the populace.
After the 18th February, where the stance of PML-N has remained pretty much straight forward and crystal clear over [...]



Beware of Establishment

By Fatima Tassaduq • Mar 12th, 2008 • Category: Politics

The winds of change has scared the forces of status quo and there is a panic in the stale, dark corridors of establishment. All the ministries are preparing tough briefings for the new government and they intend to give them hard times from the day one.
They have already compelled the caretaker government to raise the [...]



Musharraf ka Pehla Scooter

By Muskan Hina • Mar 8th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

President Musharraf has got a unique quality of making the environment light at a moment’s notice. Regardless of his plummeted popularity, and regardless of the justified crticism over him in regard of war on terror, economy, judiciary and other issues, he has got a charisma which is very rare to be seen in the world [...]



Daughter Buried Alive by Parents

By Amna Gilani • Mar 7th, 2008 • Category: Misc, Worth A Second Look

Poverty is the worst of the evils. It could make a human animal, and it could devastate a society. While our rulers and leaders haggle over the intricacies of power games, people in Pakistan are burying their children alive, because they cannot feed them or provide them any medical facilities or anything else.
In Mamoo Kanjan, [...]



Testing Times Ahead

By Muskan Hina • Mar 3rd, 2008 • Category: Politics

One thing Pakistani nation and the leaders (especially the winning ones) keep in perspective that the time ahead is tough and forbidding and there is no time for respite and relief and it would be prudent for all if they do not waste the time petty clashes and unnecessary conflicts and meaningless controversies.
The overall complexion [...]



No Chance For Mistake

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Mar 1st, 2008 • Category: Politics

PPP, PML-N and ANP, all three big winning parties have pledged that they would work together for the supremacy of parliament and rule of law, and they would ensure that the rule of army and establishment gets out of the democratic rule. They have also joined hands in front of nation that they would fight [...]



Pakistani Voters are not Lusers

By Amna Gilani • Feb 14th, 2008 • Category: Pakistan Vote'08, Politics, Worth A Second Look

Because at a time when so many people or in true sense almost all the people in Pakistan are struggling to keep up with soaring costs in a sluggish economy with no near future remedy, we know that the status quo in the country just won’t do. Not this time. Not this year. We can’t [...]



Thank you Bainazir: A Gratitude

By Farid Masood • Feb 13th, 2008 • Category: Pakistan Vote'08, Politics

It is the talk of the past how you were eager to become the prime minister for the third time, I myself wrote many a time wrote against your eagerness of power and your way to strive for the power was wrong. It was against the will of the citizens of this country. How you [...]



Who are Selling ‘Kidneys’

By Farid Masood • Jan 14th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Atta (flour) is the key requirement for human beings. Atta being the cheapest food item and being main sources energy for the human body in the sub-continent especially. Due to unstable economic policies prevailing in the country and due to overall economic laps being observed internationally general public in Pakistan is bound to purchase edible [...]