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Posts Tagged ‘karachi’

Karachi: Burning as Usual

By Inam R Sehri • Aug 22nd, 2011 • Category: Politics

On 19th August 2011, Khalid Tawab, vice president of the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry Karachi loudly told the government that they are closing their businesses and industry till the law & order situation is attended in Karachi. To media he said: ‘There is law in Karachi but there is no order, [...]



Mumbai and Karachi

By Salman Mugsi • Aug 21st, 2011 • Category: Politics

In the world, the biggest power is of the law. But in Pakistan things are entirely opposite. In Pakistan, the biggest power is terrorism. Our whole social fabric is now being blackmailed by the different mafias. Karachi is the mini Pakistan and it is composed of different and disparate ethnic groups, but the situation of [...]



Chaotic Pakistan

By Haris Hashmi • Aug 21st, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The civil war going in Karachi has engulfed more than hundred people in the last four days, and still hundreds of people are missing. Miscreants have formed pickets on the roads. They are stopping buses and cars, checking the id cards of the people, and then kidnapping them. ANP and MQM and PPP have pickets [...]



Karachi Needs Brutal Dictator

By Salman Mugsi • Aug 20th, 2011 • Category: Politics

Steadily but continuously turf war is going in Karachi to take the control of the city. PPP, MQM, and ANP all of them are involved in this turf war and they have got hold of few areas of the city of their own. In order to finance their gruesome activities they depend on the extortion [...]



PPP Buys MQM Yet Again

By Salman Mugsi • Aug 8th, 2011 • Category: Politics

MQM is led by a maniac. After so much murders and brutalities, Altaf Dada has gone insane for quite a time. He changes color after every hour and his minions in Karachi have to defend his very maniac move. At one day, 90 thugs call day, the night and then vice versa the very next [...]



Army in Karachi

By Maria Sultan • Aug 6th, 2011 • Category: Politics

Karachi has become Beirut of previous years. No offense intended to Beirut because it has improved a lot and life is much better there now. Karachi is divided harshly and bitterly on the ethnic and language grounds. All the political parties in the city have their own killing and criminal gangs. Their criminal gangs gather [...]



Want to Have Fun? Come to Karachi

By Salman Mugsi • Aug 2nd, 2011 • Category: Lead Story

The toy of choice in Karachi is TT. This double action toy, long feared by the random targets is quickly becoming a force to be reckoned with in some types of competitive toy shooting within the cosmopolitan of Karachi. With the growing popularity of TTs and the new Production Class in TTs, this double action [...]



Is There Any Solution for Karachi Violence?

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Jul 25th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

I would cut the useless mumbo jumbo about Karachi  being the city of lights, or nerve center of Pakistan or mini Pakistan or poor friendly city and blah blah blah. Karachi is one of the most dangerous and hopeless city in the world, and if its the nerve center then the country is already dead. [...]



Made in Israel , Use in Pakistan

By Salman Mugsi • Jul 21st, 2011 • Category: Politics

Interior Minister Rehman Malik is a special guy. His stunts of movie making with the mobile phones at the places of incidents have become much popular and his statements after the incidents have also acquired legendary status. No matter whatever the situation is, his sense of humor never disappoints.
When target killing becomes hot in Karachi, [...]



Stay Divided and See The Fall

By Rai Azlan • Jul 20th, 2011 • Category: Politics

Question is simple, “why you people hate MQM?” this question was asked by my Faisalabadi friend from my other friend who is Sindhi. By that time, I realised that politics is going to be the dessert of the dinner that I was trying to finish. The statement of Senior Minister of Sindh Dr. Zulfiqar Mirza [...]