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Employment in Pakistan

By Fatima Tassaduq • Aug 10th, 2009 • Category: Misc

What career to choose, what to study, where to get admission, how to find job, how to proceed in the career, how to change gears during the job, how to look for better opportunities, and how to excel in one’s field are very alien concpets in the country of ours, and very very few people [...]



Pakistan Song Contests on TV Channels

By Fatima Tassaduq • Jul 26th, 2009 • Category: Entertainment

Indian TV channels have run song competitions with huge success. Their programs Voice of India and many others on channels like Star Plus, Sony and Zee have broken all the records and their quality is also very good and they are equally very popular in Pakistan.
Following their footprints, virtually every Pakistani private channel including Indus [...]



Return of Swat IDPs

By Fatima Tassaduq • Jul 18th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Operation ‘Rah-e-Rast’ against the militants in Malakand Division is continuing unabated, while in different areas of Shangla, Swat and Lower Dir curfew is in the relaxing mode. Security forces heavy guns are carrying on shelling overnight and in the daytime the militants’ hideouts in different areas of Lower Dir including the upper areas of Swat’s [...]



Humayun Akhtar versus Pervaiz Elahi : Dirt and Mud Dances

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

It was quite amusing to watch Humuyun Akhtar Khan, a rich son of a late general sitting with the beautiful Kashmala Tariq doing a press conference, perhaps his first serious press conference during his drawing room political career. He was hurling mud at the Chaudhry Brothers of Gujrat, who are hell bent at carrying on [...]



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 [...]