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Posts Tagged ‘Pir Pagara’

Who Took How Much in Mehran Bank Scandal

By Mohsin Sehgal • Jan 26th, 2012 • Category: Politics

Following list is from the Mehran Bank case file which is the part of Asghar Khan petition in the Supreme Court. This list of the beneficiaries of Mehran Bank hasn’t been proved in any court of law yet, but allegedly this is very close to what was distributed by the ISI.



Pir Pagara Dead in London on 10 January 2012

By Zeeshan Khan • Jan 11th, 2012 • Category: Politics

In the age of 83, Pir Mardan Shah, the Pir Pagara died due to cardiac arrest in the English capital London. He was ill for quite some days and then was flown to from Karachi to London in an air ambulance, but he expired due to grave illness and his age.
Pir Pagara was the spiritual [...]



Give Pir Pagara New Bride and Solve Sindh Ministries Issue

By Salman Mugsi • Oct 9th, 2011 • Category: Politics

I thought that Pir Sahib Pagara was only interested in marrying but this time courtesy to the conciliatory policy of PPP and somersaults of MQM and PML-Q, we got to know that the Bhaij Pagaro is also fond of keeping the ministries.
During every government of any flavor, like MQM, the functional league of Pagara has [...]



Muqbala e Husan

By Rohail Butt • Sep 2nd, 2011 • Category: Politics

Qaim Ali Shah is the oldest politician in Pakistan and he is perhaps the only politician in Sindh who has managed to grab the chief minister seat maximum time and for the longest duration. Not only the chief minister hot seat, Qaim Ali Shah has also found himself on all the important Sindhi and PPP [...]



Floods 2011 in Pakistan

By Muskan Hina • Jul 1st, 2011 • Category: Politics

July is once again here. In late July last year, the Indus river basin in Pakistan saw worst of the floods. The damage to life and property was huge not only due to the natural calamity but also due to the mismanagement and the intentional manipulation by the feudal to save their land and to [...]



UK Respects Pakistanis, Withdraws Musharraf’s Protocol

By Salman Mugsi • May 5th, 2010 • Category: Politics

It’s nothing new and has happened always in the history that the world powers use their pawns and then discard them, humiliate them or get them eliminated altogether. Musharraf is lucky enough that he has only been discarded for now, but the way dictator chap is dreaming about returning to power in Pakistan, his fate [...]



Are Pakistanis Waiting for Bilawal Bhutto Zardari?

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Mar 1st, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

There are many interesting questions which are still in dormant status but lurking in the background to come out in the near future.
With the tragic assassination of Benazir Bhutto more than two years ago, her widower Asif Ali Zardari took hold of the party and then the presidency and he also pledged with the workers [...]



Will Nawaz Succeed in Neutralizing Sindh Card?

By Maria Sultan • Jan 7th, 2010 • Category: Politics

After gaining an unprecedented foothold in Balochistan as Qadir Baloch and Sanaullah Zehri joined PML-N, Nawaz Sharif landed in Karachi with a thud as he announced that he intends to dispel the Sindh Card instead of racing for it or combating it with any other provincial card.
Sindh Card is attributed to the Pakistan People’s Party [...]



Pir Pagara’s Men Tortured Tableeghi Jamat People

By Irfan Waheed • Nov 2nd, 2009 • Category: Politics

The violence, intolerance and extremism has many forms in Pakistan. We might become successfull in wiping out the terrorism from South Waziristan as we have done in Swat, but what to do with the feudal terrorism raging on in the interior Sindh and some other parts of the country?
A tableeghi Jamat people were preaching in [...]



Pir Pagara : Why Sheikh Rashid Runs Towards Him

By Shayan Khan • Aug 12th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Pir Sahib Pagara, Bhaij Pagara is country’s leading relic and he is nowadays only comes to the news when yet another thing of entertainment Sheikh Rashid Ahmad tulli of Rawalpindi comes running to the Kingri House and then both join their heads together, watch into the magic crystal ball, and then rattle the prediction for [...]