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Posts Tagged ‘UN’

Zulmat-e-Shab (Urdu Article)

By M Mirza • Feb 3rd, 2009 • Category: Politics (Urdu)


Answer to Bharat Varma’s Fulmination

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Jan 17th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Bharat Varam who lives either in fool’s Paradise or in New Delhi (or perhaps they are the same thing) has developed a really cheap penchant for coming up with ludicrous suggestions to his government and military. He is pushing his country so hard towards total disintegration which is amazing given the India is already sliding [...]



Credibility of United Nations Sinks To New Low

By Ali Yar Khan • Dec 19th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Well, what the heck United Nations has achieved ever besides of acting like a puppy of United States of America? It’s a tool in the hands of world power to watch guard the interests throughout the world. That happened in the case of Iraq, when UN “approved” America to attack Iraq on the pretext of [...]



Ask Mrs. Karkare: Was It Lashker or BJP?

By A Khokar • Dec 14th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The timing of Mumbai terror is well planned, just before Indian state elections! So who will reap the benefit? Lashkar-e-Taiba or BJP? If ISI did it, then they must be stupid. And they are not.
I am in receipt of an E mail which says;
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Thursday, 11 December 2008. If the America’s lapdogs in the [...]



Even China Backed Ban on Jamaat ud Dawa : Diplomacy Failure

By Gul Raiz • Dec 13th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

In the wake of UN Security Council resolution, which added four leaders of a militant group to a list of people and groups facing sanctions for ties with al-Qaeda or the Taliban, even Pakistan’s time tested friend China hasn’t vetoed the resolution. The resolution also recommended freezing the assets of the group and banning the [...]



Jamat ud Dawa and the Image of Islam

By Kiran Ali • Dec 12th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Another front page story of terrorism and a wave of questions coming our way. Islamic political parties through out the world must learn a lesson from this that they are under a continuous attack of image tarnishing. They have been projected in front of this world as demons for quite some time now and none [...]



The Best Poem

By Mir Adnan Aziz • Nov 15th, 2008 • Category: Misc

This poem was nominated by UN as the best poem…  Written by an
African Kid:
When I born, I black
When I grow up, I black
When I go in Sun, I black
When I scared, I black
When I sick, I black
And when I die, I still black
And you white fellow
When you born, you pink
When you grow up, you white
When [...]



Rights of the Disabled

By captainjohann • May 20th, 2008 • Category: Misc

United nations convention on the rights of Persons with disabilities was adopted on December 13, 2006. It was opened for signature on march 30, 2007. An estimated 80% of people with disabilities live in developing countries and there is significant correlation between poverty and disability.
As of 15th may 2008, the convention [...]



BB assasination investigation by UN

By captainjohann • Apr 12th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Mohtramma Benazir assasination and UN investigation. The ordinary people of Pakistan have already been forced to forget(by recent violence) the sacrifice of late BB and the previous regime’s efforts to sabotage the investigation by blaming it all on Baihtullah Mehsud. The Brtish government played its part by giving the smokescreen of scotland yard. [...]



Healthy Pakistan: A Candid Look

By MK • Mar 4th, 2008 • Category: Misc

Keeping its population healthy is one of the basic duties of state. If a population is unhealthy it can not deliver on any front. Developed societies place a large emphasis on improving health indicators of their populations.
Keeping a population healthy is a complex business. It depends upon the amount of money going [...]