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Posts Tagged ‘Umer Gul’

What can be a befitting response to IPL snub? PPL!

By Guest Blogger • Jan 23rd, 2010 • Category: Politics

Shahid Afridi - silence. Umar Gul - silence again. And the same cold lull was heard nine more times in the ballroom of Mumbais elite hotel a couple of days back, when the names of Pakistani cricketers were announced for the IPL-III auction.
But as they say, a prolonged silence often signals a storm. A storm [...]



The dilemma of fairness

By Guest Blogger • Oct 17th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Surfing through the plethora of channels we are accustomed to the adds of fairness creams by numerous channels.One hardly believes their heightened claims of transforming darker skin into fairer one in say five to ten days.I wonder who are they deceiving?themselves or maybe the illiterate ones.The only way they find to lure women is via [...]



Pakistan@62:The future is bright

By Dil Nawaz • Aug 30th, 2009 • Category: Politics

For once I left my intellectual hat at home and donned the green flag to go on the street and celebrate with the Bradistan boyz and girlz, not that I consider myself a “flag waving nationalist”. My loyalties might be a bit shaky but I would never dream of waving a tricolour of Republic of [...]