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Posts Tagged ‘Ramadan’

The Ramadan is here!

By Mian Usman • Aug 23rd, 2009 • Category: Misc, Worth A Second Look

Greetings to you all on the start of the Holy month of Ramadan. It’s the month of testing of faith, steadfastness, patience, discipline, humanity, love for fellow beings and above all revival of true Islamic spirit that should have been there in us through out the year. It’s a reminder to us all who remained [...]



Ramzan 2009

By Guest Blogger • Aug 22nd, 2009 • Category: Misc

More than one-fourth of all human beings now living on earth are about to enter a new phase of their yearly calendar: Ramazan. Coming fourteen hundred and thirty years after the momentous event of Hijra of the Prophet, upon him be peace and blessings of Allah, Ramazan will bring with it a night better than [...]



Ramadan and Hoarding

By Haris Hashmi • Aug 16th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Ramadan is the month of fasting and hoarding. Market mafias, wholesalers, retailers and shop-keepers; everyone chucks extra profit from the faithful in all the edible items. One gets to know that Ramadan is approaching well before its moon sighting as the prices of everything surge to a whooping measure. In total disregard to what Ramadan [...]



Crackdown on Sugar Hoarders : Geo Shahbaz Geo

By Rohail Butt • Aug 15th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Besides of establishing a Ramadan package, the Punjab government of Shahbaz Sharif has come hard on the hoarders of sugar. The government has issued orders to take punitive actions against those sugar millers and traders, who have not been releasing the stock despite their commitment, causing a massive hike in the commodity price nationwide.
Not only [...]



Nail polish and Ramadan

By captainjohann • Oct 5th, 2008 • Category: Misc

A young bangladeshi girl from UK was visiting her granny’s house in Dacca during this ramadan.Her granny told her that she must not break fast with Nail polish on. She found it funny and as her granny insisited; she wrote a letter to editor asking for advice. Immediately response came from [...]



Where is My Eidi ?

By Amna Gilani • Oct 2nd, 2008 • Category: Politics

Suffocation in the shops, smell of heavy sweat, hot weather and extreme humidity are not the reason that people are finding it hard to head towards the markets in the first Eid of Summer after almost 36 years, rather it’s the security situation in the country, which has put the whole country in uncertainty and [...]



Apna Apna Chand, Apni Apni Eid Mubarak

By M Mirza • Oct 1st, 2008 • Category: Politics (Urdu)


This Eid, Rise Above the Ashes

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Oct 1st, 2008 • Category: Politics

The ravishing and dazzling festival of Eid represents an occasion to renew one’s commitment to his responsibilities, just as the fasting was throughout the thirty days of the blessed month of Ramadan ul Mubarak. Allah, the most exalted and most gracious and most merciful, has made the month of Ramadan an occasion in which the [...]



Ramadan = Price Hike + Hoarding

By Ghazala Khan • Sep 6th, 2008 • Category: Politics

The holy month of Ramazan has been welcomed with traditional zeal and zest and the prices of all the things have been raised from 50% to 80%. The prices of fruits and vegetable remained all time high and shortage of flour prevailed and the prices of oil, pulses, milk, and other edibles have gone through [...]



Ramadan and Price Hike

By Ghazala Khan • Sep 1st, 2008 • Category: Politics

One solution and an equally viable one is to eat less and spend less in Ramadan to avoid price hike. All those Pakoras, Samosas, Kachorees, Dates, drinks, Chats, Dahi Balas, Chicken, Beef, Mutton, Chutnees and other things could wait to go in our never-satisfied bellies. Why is it necessary to adorn the Iftar table [...]