The Pakistani Spectator

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Posts Tagged ‘Punjabi’

Identity Crises

By Tauseef Hassan • Jul 23rd, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

After 62 years, image and existence of Pakistan is being blare by the works of rulers. Topic of identity/existence of Pakistan is still questionable internally and externally. We can easily conceive somebody/our self in term of culture i.e. Sindhi, Punjabi, Balochi but its hard to answer others/our self that what is Pakistaniat?. Now Pakistan has [...]



Pakistan: The Crisis of Society and State

By amicus • Jun 29th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

“The failed state”, “the rogue state”, “the epicenter of international terrorism” and “the most dangerous place in the world” are some of the epithets being used for the Pakistani state.
Suffering from deep malaise, the presently the Pakistani society is characterized by multiplicity of fissures. Its components – individuals and groups – are fast losing sense [...]



The Imminent Conflict

By Dr RazaHaider • Mar 6th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Imminent Sindhi / Punjabi conflict; is in its way to further turmoil the reckoning economy and reservation as different entities hence declaration that these entities can never attain single notion as federation.



Zardari-Dogar versus Nawaz-Shahbaz

By Ali Yar Khan • Feb 27th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

What else you could expect from Zardari? The truth is that the man hasn’t yet believed that he has become the president of Pakistan, the country he so lavishly looted.
It’s also a blessing in disguise for the Nawaz Sharif and his brother and for their whole party. Their popularity graph is already soaring due to [...]



Dr. Shahid Masood Finds a Whipping Boy

By Fatima Tassaduq • Jul 22nd, 2008 • Category: Politics

There is a very famous statement of Punjabi which roughly translates in English like this “Those who were actually doing it , ran and those who were just taking a bath, got in trouble.” That was what happened with Deputy Managing Director of Pakistan Television, Shahid Mehmood Nadeem.
Shahid Nadeem was sacked by the newly appointed [...]



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 [...]



Desi Born Confused Americans (DBCA)

By Ammar Yasir • May 31st, 2008 • Category: Entertainment

ABCD [American Born Confused Desi’s]; a common name given to the generation who were born and raised in the west but had a Desi (Pakistani, Indian or Bangladeshi) origin. But the generation that I belong to, face a very similar problem but for completely opposite reasons.
Say hello to the Desi Born Confused Americans (DBCA) and [...]