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Who Took How Much in Mehran Bank Scandal

By Mohsin Sehgal • Jan 26th, 2012 • Category: Politics

Following list is from the Mehran Bank case file which is the part of Asghar Khan petition in the Supreme Court. This list of the beneficiaries of Mehran Bank hasn’t been proved in any court of law yet, but allegedly this is very close to what was distributed by the ISI.



Imran Khan : Raising the Political Temperature

By Robin Mitha • Dec 29th, 2011 • Category: Politics

Imran Khan’s rise in popularity and the impressive turnout at his Lahore and Karachi public meetings is no mean feat and has stunned many. Conspiracy theories abound. Is the establishment and ISI propping up the PTI to achieve some new objective, is a hot topic of debate. While everyone is asking the million dollar question [...]



Live from Imran Khan Jalsa

By Faiza Iqbal • Dec 25th, 2011 • Category: Politics

I feel like crying with happiness as I jostled around in the ocean of Imran Khan lovers flocking  near Mazar-e-Qauid. Literally, without any exaggeration, the tens and thousands of cheerful crowd carrying national and party flags are increasing in number by every minute and the rally has begun.
The environment is electrifying and the Karachiites have [...]



Chaudhry Nisar Destroying PML-N, Javed Hashmi First Casuality

By Rohail Butt • Dec 25th, 2011 • Category: Politics

Within the inner circles of the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz, the resentment and anger against the opposition leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan is rising rapidly. He has never been the most popular figure in the party, but has always enjoyed an absolute support of the party head Nawaz Sharif.
Chaudhry Nisar’s relevancy and power comes due [...]



Shah Mehmood Qureshi Poised to Join PML-N

By Rohail Butt • Jul 7th, 2011 • Category: Politics

Well more rightly Shah Mehmood Qureshi is about to join his former and original party PML-N. Politics is the power game and with Javed Hashmi riding the solo train and Yousaf Raza Gilani enjoying PPP premiership, PML-N is trying to get its footstep in strong fashion in the Southern Punjab and what better way that [...]



Dictatorship in PML-N

By Umer Toor • Jul 6th, 2011 • Category: Politics

In PML-N, Nawaz Sharif acts like a Greek god and his brother Shahbaz Sharif as the representative of that god on Earth. This Greek mythology type leadership of PML-N is not only bad for their own party but also a grave danger for the democracy and for the country at large.
No one in the PML-N [...]



Zardari, Sharif and Co. – The fleece that wouldn’t sell

By Kaptain Mirza • Oct 29th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Yet another feast and this is NOT a feat. The nation wilts and tilts to a position where there is no return. The Army is locked up, beefed up and engaged from where it cannot step back but from whence it has to return victor, no second option. Until then the pawns have to be [...]



Heart Burns or Healings ?

By Ali Yar Khan • Jun 11th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

If history is any guide, we shouldn’t be expecting any good in the near future from the new alignments of the politicos on the country, which are almost at loggerheads. Within the coalition of PPP led government, the ANP and JUI-F have pulled the daggers out and slinging mud without any pause. ANP is also [...]



Chasham-Ma-Roshan Dil-e-Ma-Shad (Urdu Article)

By M Mirza • Feb 10th, 2009 • Category: Politics (Urdu)


Rip-Off Ourselves

By Ali Yar Khan • Nov 23rd, 2008 • Category: Politics

We all are incriminated in the economic rip-off our country. Yes, leaders are corrupt and in Pakistan nobody reached to the assemblies without corruption and if somebody thinks otherwise, then he is the a “shahzada” in himself. We don’t pay taxes, and we are not ready to sacrifice. No lawyer, no doctor, no teacher, no [...]