On 1st August 2011 the Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani made a blistering speech in the National Assembly accusing the Supreme Court of Pakistan for undue interference in the executive’s domain on the issue of handling postings & transfers of officers but ultimately admitted that it was his prerogative to play with their fates. Feeling [...]
Makhdoom Faisal Saleh Hayat leads that faction of heavyweights in the PML-Q who are against anything to do with the PPP. Most of these stalwarts belong to the former PPP-Patriot, which was the splintered group defected to Musharraf in 2002, and left their parent party People’s Party.
Now as everything in place for the deal between [...]
There was a time when we had only one Channel named PTV and it used to stop broadcasting at midnight unless there was some special event like Pakistan Hockey match or Muhammad Ali’s boxing match being broadcast live. PTV helped to create a rival in the form of STN or Shalimar Television Network which created [...]
Perhaps the merit in the Pakistan People’s Party to rise above and to become the apple of eye of the chairman Zardari is to abuse at full throttle and then to lie and then to become unrepentant.
Jamshaid Dasti have been making headlines for quite a time now by abusing and calling names on the floor [...]
My name is Prisoner 650,
Known I am as the “Grey Ghost”
Of Bagram, my home, remember me
In years of silence, in moments
Of indifference, created by you
Familiar are those walls and rooms
Of torture, of questions and of abuse
Familiar are those old echoes,
As all ideologies fall away in shame
Of protection of rights and freedom
Familiar I am to these [...]
So they say that she grabbed the pistol of an American warrant officer, and then shot at another American captain within a room, missed, and then she was shot, subdued by the American soldiers and FBI agents present. Up till the last moment, the dangerous Al Qaeda operative struggled and kicked and hurled customery expected [...]
Aafia Siddiqui was born in Karachi, Pakistan, on March 2, 1972. She was one of three children of Mohammad Siddiqui, a doctor trained in England. She is a mother of three.
Aafia moved to Texas in 1990 to be near her brother, and after spending a year at the University of Houston, transferred to MIT. Aafia [...]
The glamorous drama of expulsion of Kashmala Tariq, the political beauty of Pakistan seems to be concluded in few days, as the PML Women Wing President Sumera Malik and Humayun Akhtar, the close friend of Kashmala have managed to smoother the grounds for the return of Kashmala in the party by lobbying hard and they [...]
I cannot forget that moment, when I was pulling my hair in jealousy after watching the snapshot of Chaudhary Shujaat, the president of PML-Quisling clustered by Sumaira Malik, Kashmala Tariq, and Marvi Memon, and that was the point when I left PML-Q, because I could no more sustain that diehard workers like me were not [...]
