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Population is not a Problem in Pakistan

By Ali Yar Khan • Jul 25th, 2008 • Category: Politics

I was reading the latest column by Ardsher Cowasjee (to whom TPS has also interviewed) , where he says, “We must accept that we are a nation of 170 million, largely illiterate, brainwashed by bigotry, and highly intolerant of each other. A report in the national press last week made reference to recent studies made […]



What Did Khalid Shahanshah Know?

By Ali Yar Khan • Jul 24th, 2008 • Category: Politics

The horrendous slaying of Benazir Bhutto, the two-time Prime Minister of this hapless country, last year in Rawalpindi is still an unsolved mystery, and her own successors are pulling every cosmetic rabbit out of their grinning bags and still there is no initiations of any United Nations investigations. One also wonders as what wonder, the […]



Focussed Statements By Barack Obama

By Ali Yar Khan • Jul 22nd, 2008 • Category: Politics

The mounting attacks on the NATO forces in Afghanistan has given enough ammunition to the Afghan and US officials to blame and suspect respectively the militants in the tribal region of Pakistan. After every attack on the NATO forces or on the Afghan forces, the Afghan President blames and threatens the Pakistan.
But NATO forces have […]



Wo Kam Karo Jo Rustam Say No Ho Ga

By Ali Yar Khan • Jul 21st, 2008 • Category: Politics

What an opportunity for Nawaz Sharif to genuinely become a national leader and cement his standing in the Pakistan, not just for political gain but for the national gain. The vacuum of leadership in the country is getting wider, and there is no one to fill it, and the dwarfs have failed after trying hard, […]



Shahbaz Navigates in Balochistan

By Ali Yar Khan • Jul 16th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

One of the best thing ever happened to Pakistan is the chief minister of Punjab, Mian Shahbaz Sharif, the younger brother of Nawaz Sharif, the two time Prime Minister of Pakistan. Famous for his endless energy and the burning desire for efficiency and providing relief to the poor, Shahbaz Sharif is once again at the […]



Martyrdom of Frontier Constabulary Personnel

By Ali Yar Khan • Jul 15th, 2008 • Category: Politics

In the fight against the militants, the Jawans of Frontier Constabulary are at the forefront. They have been sacrificing their lives for couple of years now continuously, and now as the 17 more of them have died in an ambush by Talibans, the local people of Hangu have risen for the support of FC against […]



Own It, You Morons

By Ali Yar Khan • Jul 14th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Well before 18th February, the change was decided, and if not on the face of it, many things have changed from the core in Pakistan, but the winning leadership of the political parties still not believing it, and they are still trying in vain to quash their fears and apprehensions.
Their habits have grown way […]



Camp Office Dubai

By Ali Yar Khan • Jul 12th, 2008 • Category: Politics

When a journalist asked from Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gillani that why he is in Dubai, Mr. Gillani said that he was in Dubai to seek guidance from the chairman of the Pakistan People’s Party Bilawal Bhutto Zardari. One wonders as what that rookie kid with none experience in politics or world at large would […]



Suicide Bombing Starts Again : Melody Market Tragedy

By Ali Yar Khan • Jul 6th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

We ask where is the change, Where in the hell is change? As the mind-blowing freaking hundred disgusting and uncertain hundred days of this bizarre government completes, nation gets a gory familiar gift of the suicide bombing attack right in the heart of the Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan.
A suicide blast near Melody Chowk area […]



Musharraf Sprinkles Salt on Lal Masjid Wounds

By Ali Yar Khan • Jul 6th, 2008 • Category: Politics

The day when full one year passed after the operation on the Lal Masjid and Jamia Hafsa in which thousands of innocent girls and boys died in ghastly way, Musharraf appeared in a ceremony and justified and boasts his actions, and reaffirms that he would carry on with it streak if needed and allowed. God […]