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Posts Tagged ‘NGO’

Islamic Pakistan and Secular India and World’s Oldest Profession

By Swaraaj Chauhan • Oct 18th, 2009 • Category: Misc, Worth A Second Look

“Secular” India and “Islamic” Pakistan try to suppress prostitution but ignore the plight of thousands of people involved in this highly risky but widely practised profession. Some NGOs have done commendable work, such as a recent drive in Karachi to promote health awareness among sex workers.
Lahore, Karachi, Calcutta, Bombay and Lucknow were among the traditional [...]



Firing Rice International NGO Members Killed in Mansehra

By Sharafat • Apr 6th, 2009 • Category: Misc

Anjum Zaib, Sadaf, Saifullah and Naeema Kosar, members of NGO went to check a school in village near Shankayari, a mountaneous region of Mansehra. These people were working under the Sarhad Ruler Project and they were purely related to NGO work and for the betterment of the education.
These people were killed brutally after firing. According [...]



The Terrorists Say: This Ostrich has its Head Buried in the Sand

By A Khokar • Apr 5th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

All the training centre including the one attacked by the terrorist group in Lahore: Police Training centre at Manawaan are simple ‘boot camps’ where the recruits are imparted physical ground training in parade grounds to disciplined them and teach them the basic essential of their profession. Basic weapon training is also given which remain primarily instructional. Actual [...]



America About to Attack FATA

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Jun 17th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Afghan President Hamid Karzai is a puppet and the puppet only move when it’s strings are moved by its master, and puppet cannot speak. Whenever puppet speaks, the voice and the words actually belongs to its master. So we need to read the puppet’s threat under the lines, and we need to be alarmed [...]



Donde Drug Trade Dollars De Afghanistan?

By kami • Jun 4th, 2008 • Category: Politics

As I mentioned in my last article, on February 27, 2008 at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Bob Schieffer, anchor of CBS News’ “Face the Nation,” moderated a seminar where Nicholas Burns, then Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, commented about drug production in Afghanistan:
“It is a country that has seen its [...]



Brunt is Ours

By The Pakistani Spectator • Jun 3rd, 2008 • Category: Politics

The recent bomb blast in Islamabad in which more than eight people have died and there are many injured in front of the Danish Embassy in F-6 sector of Islamabad mark the gory shadows of the boogie of terrorism which we seem to be forgetting.
Whether these attacks were the retaliation of the current US attacks [...]



Female Education in FATA By Taliban

By Fatima Tassaduq • May 28th, 2008 • Category: Politics

In a very welcome step, the local Talibans have allowed the education of females in the agencies of FATA. There is a misconception here, which needs to be clarified and spread to put the things straight.
Talibans were never against the education for the girls, and they never rejected it. They had Madaris for girls operating [...]



Iatrogenic Judicial Knock on Judicature

By Dr RazaHaider • Apr 25th, 2008 • Category: Politics

His services in this regards are as and in lieu of the middle man and has multiple outlets and doors to chanellize things at the desire of the desirer.



Ansar Burney (Singh): The Human Rights Minister for Indians

By The Pakistani Spectator • Apr 8th, 2008 • Category: Politics

By Samad Khurram 
Ansar Burney completed his tenure as the first ever caretaker minister of human rights. During his four months stint in the Ministry of Law, Burney worked hard tirelessly for providing a safe passage for suspected and convicted enemies of Pakistan while completely disregarding Pakistanis. He even went a step further by actively [...]



Dushman Is Ka Hindustan Kyon Ho

By M. Waqas (Ex MPA) • Mar 9th, 2008 • Category: Politics (Urdu)