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Zardari and Sarah Palin

By Altaf Khan • Sep 26th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Just after showing his intense mourning with ashen face in regard of assassination of his late wife Benazir Bhutto, Asif Ali Zardari met the beauty Queen of Alaska and the Republican runner for the vice president, and twice admired her stunning looks. Sexy and dazzling Palin was ecstatic, though now as she is being painted […]



Jiyala President

By Altaf Khan • Sep 16th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Jiyala loosely means a deveotee, and it has become a buzzword nowadays and largely taken as a devotee of Pakistan People’s Party, and not so long ago, Asif Ali Zardari in Punjab House has declared that soon people would see a Jiyala Sadar in the President House, and even then we knew that by that […]



He can also become President

By Altaf Khan • Sep 4th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Last night when I was itching in the queue outside Cinepax, Rawalpindi to get tickets to watch an American flick, I overheard a black-ticketer confiding merrily to one of his buddy that now he too is eligible for the president and a day would come soon, though he is afraid that he not a graduate […]



Hari Puttar versus Harry Potter

By Altaf Khan • Aug 31st, 2008 • Category: Entertainment

Indian bollywood film industry which is based in Mumbai has always been plagiarizing the works from Hollywood, Lollywood and from other parts of the world. Indian film industry has got immense talent, no doubt about that, and even then they steal is beyond comprehension and logic. There have been many cases where the elements of […]



Zardari is Mental : Daily Telegraph Says

By Altaf Khan • Aug 26th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto and himself a leading contender for the country’s presidency, was suffering from severe mental illness as recently as last year, it has been reported. Mr Zardari, co-chair of the Pakistan People’s Party, was diagnosed with a range of psychiatric illnesses, including dementia, major […]



Disasters Around the World : Ours is Zardari

By Altaf Khan • Aug 24th, 2008 • Category: Entertainment

Source : NYT



Very Alarming FATA

By Altaf Khan • Aug 23rd, 2008 • Category: Politics

Literally thousands of people are daily leaving the Bajaur and Mahmand Agency due to the infighting between Talibans and the clashes of them with the security forces. Just within two days, more than 50 people have died and many are injured.
Now the reports are that in the Bajaur Agency, the group of Maulvi Faqir Mohammad […]



Chandelier of Democracy

By Altaf Khan • Aug 20th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Tyranny is dead and democracy is alive again. On the corpse of dictatorship, the funeral of guard of honour has been offered like it was for Yahya Khan, Ziaul Haq and Ayub Khan. Now democracy is calling and the challenge of democracy is swinging at the heads of the coalition partners.
With lots of Sacrifices, the […]



Coalition : Stick Together

By Altaf Khan • Jul 27th, 2008 • Category: Politics

The experiment of coalition government in this world’s miserable laboratory, which is called as Pakistan is failing miserably. And that comes at such a time, when extreme unity and coordination is needed, as the serious threats are looming on our Eastern and Western borders, and internal turmoil is also getting alarming.
Running and remaining in coalition […]



Petroleum Prices : Where They are Heading?

By Altaf Khan • Jul 21st, 2008 • Category: Politics

At least I don’t have no idea and my limited imagination fails to predict the ultimate price of petroleum products where it will become stable for a while.
The new bogeyman of the town, Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra), has once again given the jolt of the year to the nation, just after a fiasco […]