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Posts Tagged ‘london’

Iftikhar Chaudhary Starts Earning His Restoration

By Rohail Butt • Jul 7th, 2009 • Category: Politics

The truth is that the nation is baffled and numb, as they don’t really have any idea as how much they are paying for what and how much anything has increased and they dont have any impact by any decrease in the prices. The prices of everything are so high that an overwhelming majority of [...]



Yazeed-e-Waqt (Urdu Column)

By M Mirza • May 25th, 2009 • Category: Politics (Urdu)


Against The Dignity

By Hamid Majid Abbasi • May 7th, 2009 • Category: Politics

It seems that the begging game is far from over, in case of Pakistan. I am referring to the on going visit of President Zardari. Whether it’s the Friend of Democratic Pakistan or any bilateral forum, our establishment has seized it as an opportunity to settle there ledgers, by going all out for aid. I [...]



G20 Summit London

By Dil Nawaz • Apr 1st, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Breaking News: The leaders of the Twenty richest countries are meeting in London Today to discuss economic recession.
What will leaders of America ,Britain,Brazil,Russia,Japan,China and India  will do help the world economy. What are Zardari,Gillani and Sharifs doing,what else fighting and gossiping.True Pakistan is not part of the group G20,but this summit can be opportunity for [...]



Afza Altaf Birthday Pictures and Videos

By Gul Raiz • Mar 7th, 2009 • Category: Misc

7th Birthday of Afza Altaf baby, the only daughter of Altaf Hussain, chief of Motahidda Qaumi Movement has been celebrated with gusto in different parts of Pakistan and also in London. It’s another occasion for the MQM workers to pay homage to their leaders and especially the occasion fills color in the London secretariat of [...]



Subcontinent’s Diaspora Torn between Language and Identity

By Isha Khan • Feb 1st, 2009 • Category: Politics

The subcontinental diaspora (including people from Bangladesh and Malaysia) in recent years has managed to generate some of the most acclaimed work in present times yet they find themselves torn- between land, language and identity.
What bothers Paris-based, Bangladeshi writer, Tahmina Anam, author of A Golden Age’, is the question that people in her native country [...]



Rehman Malik Should Focus on Swat Instead of Zardari Games

By Rohail Butt • Jan 31st, 2009 • Category: Politics

Salman Taseer is enough to play Zardari games in the Punjab province. Musharraf’s crony Salman Taseer by using the brute force of Rehman Malik is busy in threatening, cajoling and making the lotas roll. Governor Punjab has gone literally mad in his blind and uncontrollable enmity with the Sharif brothers.
Rehman Malik is not the servant [...]



Zardari and 9/11

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

Had it been Asif Ali Zardari running the affairs of the state of Pakistan on 9/11, the current status of Pakistan would have been entirely different.
President General (r) Pervez Musharraf is not a politician. He is a commando, who shoots from the hip and takes the decisions swiftly and in digital format. He heard ‘Yes’ [...]



What Price MQM will Take of Presidential Election?

By Ali Yar Khan • Sep 10th, 2008 • Category: Politics

All the credit goes to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) for rallying hard for the resounding and comprehensive victory of Pakistan People’s Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari in the presidential elections from the Sindh province, and MQM didn’t even pay heed to the recurrent pleadings of their former friends in PML-Q, and Mushahid Hussain Syed [...]



The life and death of the one-point agenda

By Faraz Beg • Aug 20th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Musharraf quits! So swiftly that it might even have surprised the coalition partners. And herein lies the big test for them. They had a common enemy, that common enemy is no more, and consequently, the coalition has lost its raison d’être. What’ll happen next is a test of their characters, sincerity and honesty. For that [...]