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Do You Know Qazi is Doing Train March?

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Oct 15th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Though the reasons are still mostly unknown, the ambitions clouded and the objectives vague and warped, the news is that the Jamat-e-Islami of Qazi Hussain Ahmad is doing train march from Peshawar to God knows where. He says that every member of the Jamat has tied up death apparel around his head and they are […]



Talks of ISAF with Taliban

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Oct 12th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith, the top British commander in Afghanistan says it’s not possible to win the war against the Taliban and that a deal with the Islamic militants might have to be reached to end their insurgency.
In order to reach any deal, the only way forward is the dialogue, and one wonders as how the […]



Nothing Wrong With Bank Alfalah or Standard Chartered or Any Bank

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Oct 12th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The rumors factories are running high in the country. Financial crisis is reigning high throughout the world and even the Americans are feeling that they are badly hit and they are now talking about the Great Depression II. When the financial markets in the United States cough, the markets of Asia catch fever and the […]



Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan’s Bad Appraoch During In-Camera Session

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Oct 10th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Civil war is near to break out in the country as the country is drifting towards such times where things seems to be ungovernable. The economy is no where near sanity and country is near to default. Banks are crumbling and the finances are dismal. In these circumstances, what is needed is sacrifice and unity, […]



Mr. Relentless

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Oct 7th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Yes, what Pakistan needs right now as a leader is someone unflinching, upright, outspoken, tough and very shrewd capable to extract whatever he/she could from within the country and from outside world for the country with as much little a price as possible in the shortest period possible.
We need such a leader, who should be […]



Renaming of Mardan College : It’s Not Your Father’s Property

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Oct 4th, 2008 • Category: Politics

By coming into the power doesn’t mean that rulers start considering every government institution and office and infrastructure their personal property, inherited from their forefathers. It seems that Pakistan People’s Party has gone out of their mind and are hell bent on naming everything the late Benazir Bhutto’s name, which is very disturbing as  majority […]



How Funds Are Being Arranged For Suicide Bombers

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Oct 4th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Suicide attacks are damaging the very core of Pakistan and they have arrested the whole nation into a thick cloud of despair and misery and disappointment. There are only handful of the terrorists are out there and they have taken the whole of the system and state hostage, and it seems that there is no […]



What Happens After Eid? Wakeup Idiots

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Oct 1st, 2008 • Category: Politics

In this dire financial crises in Pakistan, the meltdown of our financial markets and stock exchanges and the liquidation of almost all of the government assets in the wake of ever weakening rupee, and all the other catastrophic descriptions of the current situation, is there nothing profoundly simple and sensible that can be done to […]



Fork in the Road for Pakistan

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Sep 24th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Our so cherished and touted sovereignty is on test put by the United States contineus incursions, and in the name of hot pursuit the attacks by the US forces are on the rise, and despite of some assurances from the Mike Mullen, there is no drop in the flights and attacks of drones.
The skies of […]



Islamabad Suicide Attacks ? An Insider Job

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Sep 20th, 2008 • Category: Politics

A car loaded with explosives struck at the main gates of one of the few five star hotels in Pakistan, and the hotel is in ashes and flames are engulfing the whole area. More than 50 have died and many are injured.
I have just one question:
If this attack has been carried out by the Taliban, […]