The Pakistani Spectator

A Candid Blog


Posts Tagged ‘flour crisis’

Naqsh-e-Faryadi

By M Mirza • Mar 7th, 2008 • Category: Politics (Urdu)


Reasons Behind Trouncing of PML-Q

By Amna Gilani • Feb 24th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Following are the main reason behind the debacle in election 2008 for PML-Q:

The war on terror
The judicial crisis
Confrontation with the media
The Lal Masjid operation
Shortage of wheat flour, power and gas
Skyrocketing prices of the essential commodities
Support for a dictatorial regime

Can you add any more reason in that list? Please proceed in the comments.



Pervez Elahi : Rehmat-e-Elahi or Zehmat-e-Elahi

By Fatima Tassaduq • Feb 9th, 2008 • Category: Misc, Pakistan Vote'08

You may speak out your choice in the comments, but along with this choice, you have got some more things to make a vibe about the man from Gujrat, who is an aspirant to become the Wazir-e-Azam to this country, so what to do with him when:

he runs his campaign in central Punjab only, [...]



CNG Crisis in Punjab / NWFP Gets Worse

By Ghazala Khan • Feb 1st, 2008 • Category: Politics

First the blood of Pakistanis went dry when they started living with the constant fear of suicide bombers and bomb blasts, then they started living permanently in fasting-mode, as the food items like flour and sugar became scarce and beyond the reach of their pockets. Then they started living in darkness as their long ago [...]



Pathar Ka Zamana

By M Mirza • Jan 29th, 2008 • Category: Pakistan Vote'08, Politics (Urdu)


Jamhooriyat ka Bhooot

By Ch. Naeem Sidhu • Jan 27th, 2008 • Category: Pakistan Vote'08, Politics (Urdu)


Back-Breaking Policies of PML-Q

By Ghazala Khan • Jan 26th, 2008 • Category: Pakistan Vote'08, Politics

Whenever you ask the proponents of previous regime of PML-Q, their main focus is upon the economic growth and the increased volume of economy. They will shower facts and figures upon you like hell, and you will be left wondering as why in the hell then everything is so out of reach to buy.
After all [...]



Dreams and Promises Before Elections

By Ghazala Khan • Jan 19th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Before every election we the miserable Pakistanis are promised that this will be the election  when a new movement hoists some man of the people up over the bulwark of nefarious politics and returns the power to the people. That is to say, rule of people, over the people, by the people.
That man will unify [...]



Marionette Prime Minister

By Ghazala Khan • Jan 18th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Former Prime Puppet Mr. Shaukat Aziz, who resolved to both reduce our addiction to flour and to electricity, had to skulk around with the PML-Quisling lotas, begging for more time in the office. In this effort to inject more austerity into the “lavish” Pakistani people, he played with hoarders and smugglers inside the garish godowns [...]



SMS : Farq Tu Purta Hai

By M Mirza • Jan 18th, 2008 • Category: Politics (Urdu)