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Posts Tagged ‘Mardan’

Remembering Salim Nasir: The versatile Actor!

By Mian Usman • Sep 26th, 2009 • Category: Entertainment

Saleem Nasir (Urdu: سلیم ناصر) (1989 – 1944) was a Pakistani film and TV actor. He was a pashto speaking pakhtoon who was master in Urdu. His real name was Syed Sher Khan and belonged from Mardan/Swabi (Adina) but was born in Nagpur, India as his mother belonged from there. With his experience in film [...]



IDPs Return Without Money

By Altaf Khan • Jul 17th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Though 25,000 rupees are a joke when they are given to the people to restart their lives, but then something is better than nothing and given the magnitude of the crisis and the volume of IDPs and the limited resources of the authorities, these notes mean lot to the people who are ready to return [...]



To The Attention of Chief Justice

By Anwar Jalal • Jun 11th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Through this columns  I  would  like  to bring  the notice of honourable Chief  Justice  of Pakistan  the fraud that is being done on  by numerous private  housing  plots  schemes across the  country. Fraudulent people  form a company  with some  name and launch the  scheme through advertisements in media  which  are often attractive  for  low income [...]



Give Your Zakat to IDPs

By Amna Gilani • Jun 8th, 2009 • Category: Politics

The crisis of the refugees pouring in by millions from the Swat and Dir and FATA is getting worse day by day and still it would take almost a year to bring back the routine of life in these areas. Sufferings and miseries are mounting, and the complexity of the culture mingled with mismanagement and [...]



What Not To Do When A Nation Is At War

By Muhammad Ali Sajjad • Jun 5th, 2009 • Category: Politics

These pictures show what the leadership of a nation SHOULD NOT do when their nation is at war , when their soldiers are dying from enemy bullets and when 3 Million people from their country have lost their homes and their source of income. Doing all this while being in USA to beg for USAID. No prizes for telling who is the person alighting from the lavish limousine is.



Javed Chaudhary Leaves Country for Holiday

By Salman Mugsi • Jun 2nd, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Hypocrisy, self rightenous and smugness is the name of game in Pakistan. Nowadays, if you want to see angels then you should watch the anchorpersons of the talkshows bombarded on the private T.V channels. Javed Chaudhary is one of them. He starts his programs with some anecodotes and then tries to coorelate it with his [...]



Sindh Protest Against IDP Influx Justified ?

By Muskan Hina • May 25th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Almost all the notable parties except PPP and JI are protesting vehemently against the entry of the Internally Displaced People (IDP) in the Sindh province. Strike calls are being given, with some already underway. The Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM) gave the strike call somedays ago and various nationalist parties and coalition partner of the [...]



Ummah Welfare Trust : Great Service for Swat IDPs

By Ghazala Khan • May 16th, 2009 • Category: Politics

One of the most flawless, immaculate, passionate and great service is from the Ummah Welfare Trust for the IDPs of Pakistan. They are hard at work in Swabi and Mardan in easing the sufferings of the internally displaced people. Both in Swabi and the two camps in Mardan UWT is running medical camps with [...]



Enemies of Pakistan

By Dr. Nauman Khan • May 15th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Pakistan due to lack of good leadership has been a puppet at the hands of Super Powers. We all know that these Taliban’s were used to crush Russians by the Americans, they were heroes then and now they are the TERRORIST. I am not a pro-Taliban nor do i have any connection with them but [...]



Shame Shame Shame

By Altaf Khan • May 15th, 2009 • Category: Politics

We didn’t really need the survey conducted by the US-based International Republican Institute to know that we are fed up of our leaders. Though the rating of opposition leader Mian Nawaz Sharif are higher than the current rulers, the response was dismal altogether and people showed their utter lack of hope from these leaders.
And [...]