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Options For General Musharraf

By Sameer Shaharyar • Aug 17th, 2008 • Category: Politics

In the fatherland, always the democratic governments come during the brief periods when armed governments decide to take rest. This time a new thing has happened as a democratic government has come, when still there is a dictator present and the democratic governments are bent on ousting that president without any help from the Army.
Army’s [...]



Back Channel Efforts for Musharraf’s Exit

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Aug 16th, 2008 • Category: Politics

It has been decided that Musharraf won’t face impeachment and neither would he be tried in the court of law for the charges, which are part of the charge-sheet prepared by the PPP-PML-N coalition committee. Army doesn’t want to humiliate it’s former chief, and establishment doesn’t want to open a new can of worms. The [...]



Challenges in IT Industry of Pakistan

By Ausaf Ahmad • Aug 3rd, 2008 • Category: Misc

Pakistan and its Industry… hmmmmm… Pakistan being the sixth populated nation but on the education wise we are really far behind from the other countries of our region. As I was going through the article on the Internet I get to know that Pakistan has lagged dangerously behind other regional countries in
exploiting Information Technology as [...]



Population is not a Problem in Pakistan

By Ali Yar Khan • Jul 25th, 2008 • Category: Politics

I was reading the latest column by Ardsher Cowasjee (to whom TPS has also interviewed) , where he says, “We must accept that we are a nation of 170 million, largely illiterate, brainwashed by bigotry, and highly intolerant of each other. A report in the national press last week made reference to recent studies made [...]



Crime in London

By M. Waqas (Ex MPA) • Jul 21st, 2008 • Category: Politics

Only last week terrorism was replaced by knife crime as the No 1 priority for the Metropolitan Police following the death of the 18th victim of knife stabbing since January this year. Deputy Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson announced the formation of a special knife-crime unit to address the recent wave [...]



Wazarti Mela or Gushti Mela

By Rohail Butt • Jul 20th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Who says Pakistan is a poor country? Who says we are hungry after the American largess? Who says that Pakistan’s majority population lives below the poverty line, and who says that Pakistan is hardly taking any breathe under the weight of ever-increasing debts.
Our national exchequer is filled to the brim, and we have enough bucks [...]



Wife Loving Nawaz Sharif

By Gul Raiz • Jul 14th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Respected Madam Kulsoon Nawaz is seriously ill and is currently hospitalized in London, and I wholeheartedly pray and wish for her good health and also wish that she gets well soon. That, and then I wonder that whether her post-disease tending by her faithful husband Nawaz Sharif is genuine or has it got some political [...]



Three Pillars of Corruption

By Dawar Naqvi • Jul 6th, 2008 • Category: Politics

PML (N) is a part of government and taking full advantages to be part of the government. Their Ministers are getting 100 % facilities provided by Pakistan government. Which includes, high salary, guest homes,power to hire, power to allot plots,power to control bureaucracy, cars with flags,free gasoline for their cars, no electricity break down in [...]



Why Shoaib Suddle is Transfered

By Fatima Tassaduq • Jun 30th, 2008 • Category: Politics

When Dr. Shoaib Suddle was made Inspector General of Police, Sindh; he immediately stole the media limelight because of his role in the previous regimes of Pakistan People’s Party in establishing peace in the city of Karachi by force. The coalition of PPP with the MQM suffered with this posting but at that time PPP [...]



Our Politicians are Great Indeed !!!

By zawiyal • Jun 18th, 2008 • Category: Entertainment, Worth A Second Look

It is very unfortunate that we don’t show courage to appreciate good deeds of our politicians. We are reluctant to accept this reality that they are greater human beings than us. They have been blessed with the quality of forgiving their enemies not within months but within days, infect within hours.

I believe that [...]