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Posts Tagged ‘Shireen Mazari’

Imran Khan : Raising the Political Temperature

By Robin Mitha • Dec 29th, 2011 • Category: Politics

Imran Khan’s rise in popularity and the impressive turnout at his Lahore and Karachi public meetings is no mean feat and has stunned many. Conspiracy theories abound. Is the establishment and ISI propping up the PTI to achieve some new objective, is a hot topic of debate. While everyone is asking the million dollar question [...]



Tehrik-e-Insaf Should Also Do Insaf with itself

By Ch. Naeem Sidhu • Feb 27th, 2010 • Category: Features


Iblees Ka Sajda

By Kaptain Mirza • Dec 28th, 2009 • Category: Politics

The awaited NRO is defeated and buried but unearthed the same old faces who would want to come back for a kill yet sometime again, if we falter. We have been for the last 62 years. The glimmer of hope that each one of us awaited finally came. Reaching there seemed easy but for how [...]



The Witch Hunt

By Hassan Baig • May 31st, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

There exists a foreboding murmur in the wind - young in age but formidable in intention. It was on May 12th that an article curiously titled “President Apostate?” (by Edward N. Luttwak) appeared in The New York Times. The writer, a fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, vehemently argued that Sen. Barack [...]



Shireen Mazari Harrassed

By Amna Gilani • May 17th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Dr. Shireen Mazari is one of those very few researchers in Pakistan, who categorically and honestly voice their opinions against the hegemonic policies of United States within this region and outside. She has been remained a beacon of truth, audacity and courage and to top that off, she has been instrumental in converging the learned [...]