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Sugar Crisis: The history is repeating
Looking at the comedy show Alif Noon reminded me of our 30 years old history which used to be aired on PTV. This is very unfortunate that our nation is deprived of memory, deprived of ethics, deprived of education and just every other social necessity required to live on the earth. Although it may be [...]
PPP supported organized crime
By Ahmed Hashmi Going back to the early days of Pakistan and one of those who did biggest sacrifices and hard work for the post-foundation of Pakistan, we find a name of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto shaheed. This is needless to mention that what did this guy do for our nation, starting from the nuclear program [...]
US says no direct money to PPP government
The United States made it absolutely clear on Friday, days before President Asif Ali Zardari is to meet President Obama and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in New York, that bulk of the money it will provide under the Kerry-Lugar Bill will not go directly to the PPP government but to specific projects and purposes for which it is intended.
Nawaz Sharif and Osama Bin Laden: The bosom buddies
Khalid Khwaja an ex-officer from the Pakistan Air force working in deputation in Inter-Services Intelligence come forward to tell the untold history of how Nawaz Sharif approached Osama bin Laden to get access to royal family and convinced him to create Pakistan an strict shariah state and throw the government of Ms Benazir Bhutto, how he received regular funds from Osama bin Laden via Inter-Services Intelligence.
PML-N responsible for crime against humanity
Interviewing ex-DG Intelligence Bureau Brig (R) Imtiaz in ‘Sawal Yeh Hai’ program on ARY OneWorld by Dr. Danish, Brig (R) Imtiaz revealed the genocide conducted on the orders and will of Mr. Nawaz Sharif in 1992 Operation against MQM in Karachi.
Pakistan Power Politics (PPP)
In 1993, the Pakistan Peoples Party won elections. In 1994, Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto unveiled Power Policy 1994. The Private Power and Infrastructure Board (PPIB) was inundated with 116 applications amounting to an accumulated generation capacity of 26,000 MW. The PPIB selected 75 applications — amounting to an investment of some $20 billion — to whom it issued its Letter of Intention (LoI).
Lets start Ramadan with a fight?
By Ahmed Hashmi As our holy month of Ramadan is about to begin, the movli’s sect are greasing their armory in order to prepare for a possible moon sighting clash they will be having on top of the MCB Plaza Karachi, the earth observatory lab in Quetta or those press conference tables which have clerics [...]
Pakistan: Drone production begins
According to details issued by the PAF, the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex Kamra has commenced producing the pilotless planes Falco UAV in collaboration with Selex Galileo of Italy.
Taliban targeting Pakistani scientists
Taliban have now increased their influence to such an extent as now they are targeting high profile state organs – which no doubt is a loose slap on the face of this democratic government. When on 2nd July 2009, a bus containing ‘federal government employees’ was hit by a suicide bomber, the government’s information ministry took a bold step to quickly announce that the attack was by pro-Taliban forces – not telling the citizens of the country who actually was targeted?
Zardari: Blessing future votebank?
Pakistan People’s Party is famous in Pakistan for corruption in mass and the party leaders are often blessing their loved ones by various means of government jobs, public service contracts, and in a recently noticed trend, the education department.
Report: Pakistan’s Ideological Blowback
If the bucolic Swat valley, tucked into the Himalayas less than 100 miles from the capital city of Islamabad, is a bellwether for Pakistan’s war against the Pakistani Taliban,1 the war is going badly. The Swat District — an integrated part of Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP) as opposed to the autonomous Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) — has been beyond government control since 2007. In this period the Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (Movement for the Enforcement of Mohammaden Islamic Law), a militant Pakistani Taliban group,2 thoroughly destroyed the threadbare state institutions that existed in the area. Most notably they targeted schools and the police force. Rebuilding these will take years.
Altaf faces interview with Najam Sethi
There is a long synopsis of the interview of Mr. Altaf Hussain, leader of the Muttahida Quami Movement who was interviewed by a renowned journalist named Najam Sethi while in London, United Kingdom. Altaf started answering questions by offering Najam Sethi with a self-hand-made Haleem party then moving on to clarifying the allegations on his party came during Military operation against his party in 1992.
The ‘Ayyashi’ of the ‘Kitchen Cabinet’
The story tells how the government is recklessly abusing with the taxpayer’s money on a great-grand child of the elected members of the assembly. The so called democratic governments have yet again proved that they are the best guardians of the public money which is leeched by imposing direct taxes on the cow-innocent citizens of Pakistan by introducing taxes on tea, cold drinks, sugar and fuel.
Seraiki province: a bone of contention for many
Sharp differences within the ranks of the PML-N surfaced in the National Assembly on Friday over the issue of a Seraiki province when its MNA Hanif Abbasi, without naming anyone, snubbed the likes of Javed Hashmi, who had joined the voices backing this move.
Lobbying dollars flowing out at super speed
At least 11 big and small, known and unknown, lobbying companies have been hired by Pakistan and state-owned Pakistani organisations in the US, paying them hundreds of thousands of dollars every month, some of them having mysterious names and almost dubious credentials.
Imran’s Patriotism is for Pakistan or Taliban?
While seated bored at home, I was exploring, reading some of the recent articles; in one of the published piece, my sinful eyes found something which was very perplexing for me to read. It was the warning of Imran Khan, published in Times Online of UK, in which he exposed his utter sympathy with Taliban yet opposing the military operation against them.