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Hajj Quota : Private Hajj Operators or Parliamentarians ?

By Fatima Tassaduq • Jun 29th, 2009 • Category: Politics

According to the Saudi laws, it is mandatory for the governments to provide Hajj Quota to the private tour operators, but it is not mandatory that the Hajj Qota be provided to the parliamentarians. Government has abolished the quota of the parliamentarians and over that many parliamentarians are going haywire and protesting vehemently, as it [...]



Kamala Das Suriya Passes Away

By Fatima Tassaduq • Jun 14th, 2009 • Category: Misc

Kamala Das, note poet and writer in Malayalam and English who converted to Islam a decade ago passed away in Pune early Sunday, May 31. She was 75.
Kamala Suraiya, the name she adopted after conversion was suffering from diabetes and was recently hospitalised with pneumonia. Family sources said that the end came in a private [...]



Donate for Swat IDPs HERE : Please Please

By Fatima Tassaduq • Jun 9th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Action Aid
Pakistan Humanitarian Relief, 1420 K Street NW, Suite 900, Washington, DC 20005 / 1-202-327-9924
(May 11, 2009) ActionAid is providing immediate relief in the form of food, water, medical supplies and sanitation facilities.  We are assessing medium on long-term needs, such as helping families secure copies of their registration documents which many families left [...]



Black Magic Cure

By Fatima Tassaduq • Jun 5th, 2009 • Category: Misc

Well the biggest cure is in education. Education will not only enable people to realize as how evil it is to hire somebody to harm others, it is also going to wipe out such nefarious elements from our already wrecked and aimless society. Black magic is a reality and there is no denying it.
The biggest [...]



Album of Swan Songs

By Fatima Tassaduq • May 25th, 2009 • Category: Politics

The silver Swan, who living had no Note,



Mosque Burned in Athens, Greece

By Fatima Tassaduq • May 24th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Terrorists are everywhere. Terrorism is not confined to any one region or religion. It’s a universal phenomenon and found everywhere. One more display of sheer terrorism happened in the historical city of Athens, in the Greece, where some extremists burned down and demolished a make-shift mosque.
A basement of a flat was being used as the [...]



Altafization and Talibanization

By Fatima Tassaduq • May 12th, 2009 • Category: Politics

It seems that now the passions of Awami National Party has run out and they have also come into the out to counter the continuous attacks of MQM. Altaf  Hussain, the chief from London has been claming for quite a time that ANP is trying to introduce, support and flourish Talibanization in the Karachi. MQM’s [...]



Ansar Abbasi versus Nazir Naji

By Fatima Tassaduq • Apr 29th, 2009 • Category: Politics

The favorite quote of Nazir Naji may be:
“Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.”
Groucho Marx
And more than likely, the favorite quote of Ansar Abbasi may be:
“’Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his [...]



Without Balochistan, We are Nothing

By Fatima Tassaduq • Apr 25th, 2009 • Category: Politics

People in Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi simply don’t have any idea about the grave and fulminating situaiton in the most vast province of Pakistan. Things are about to go out of control in the Balochistan and yet there is no sense of urgency on the part of the government. Some political parties have carried out [...]



PTCL DSL and Smart TV: Curse for Pakistan

By Fatima Tassaduq • Apr 12th, 2009 • Category: Misc

If you are thinking about having DSL or smart TV for your home or  business then you can go for even dail up but don’t even think about the PTCL as an option. You will weep, you will repent and you will commit suicide in misery and frustration. It’s so bad, it’s so evil, there [...]