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McCain’s Houses and Zardari’s Accounts

By Fatima Tassaduq • Aug 31st, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

There is lots of hubbub going on in the Western media about a controversial answer by John McCain, the presidential candidate in the US elections. McCain was asked in an interview as how many houses he own, and McCain was confused over that as he was unable to recall the exact number, and even he […]



Profile of Justice (r) Saeed-uz-Zamaan Siddiqui

By Fatima Tassaduq • Aug 25th, 2008 • Category: Misc

Justice (r) Saeed-uz-Zamaan Siddiqui has been nominated the presidential candidate by PML-N. He faces Asif Ali Zardari of PPP in the election of president, which is scheduled to be held on 6th September.
Justice Saeed-uz-Zamaan Siddiqui (SS):
I was born in 1937 in Calcutta in UP-state of India. In 1942, during World War when […]



Joe Biden on Pakistan

By Fatima Tassaduq • Aug 23rd, 2008 • Category: Politics

Joe Biden, the running mate with Barack Obama on the Democratic ticket for the job of vice president has always maintained that U.S. policy should be shifted from one focused solely on President Pervez Musharraf to one based on Pakistan as a whole. Following are some of his thoughts regarding US approach towards Pakistan:
Pakistan has […]



PTCL Smart TV

By Fatima Tassaduq • Aug 15th, 2008 • Category: Entertainment

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has started the Smart TV services from 14th August, through which people would be able to see numerous channels by using their existing telephone lines. Reversing the programs, parental control, clear and speedy signals, and no-installation features make the smart TV services very much the option to consider for.
But given the track […]



Where is Conscience of New Yorkers?

By Fatima Tassaduq • Aug 14th, 2008 • Category: Politics

In the twilight of his era, Musharraf’s one more cruel crime has surfaced to show us the mirror as a nation. For four years, agonized screams of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui reverberated in the notorious Bagram Jail of United States Army, and now she has been put to the court in New York with a ridiculous […]



China, Our Friend, Wonderful Olympics 2008

By Fatima Tassaduq • Aug 9th, 2008 • Category: Entertainment

Though the Western media is having a blow at the China in the backdrop of the grandeur of Olympics, the fact is that China has arranged the most tech-savvy and modern Olympics ever this world has seen. China has spent a whooping $40 billion on the Olympics and intends to spend more if needed and […]



Baffled Dr. Shahid Masood

By Fatima Tassaduq • Aug 4th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Dr. Shahid Masood is going through same strange terrains and learning to his great pains the real semantics of hefty salary and lush perks, quite soon after assuming the duties as the Managing Director of state-controlled Pakistan Television, which only state sees and believes.
After the faux pas of Prime Minister speech, some people were fired […]



Plethora of Fiascos

By Fatima Tassaduq • Jul 28th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Fiascos such as the CNG price mix-up or the bungled prime ministerial speech or now the misunderstanding of giving ISI under the command of interior ministry only shows us the tip of the icerberg. The ineptness and the dysfunctional orientation of this government runs deep.
The new government has proved utterly a failed bunch of idiots, […]



Mustafa Abu ul Yazid a.k.a Sheikh Saeed Interview : Another Lawrence of Arabia?

By Fatima Tassaduq • Jul 23rd, 2008 • Category: Politics

GEO News has telecasted an hour long interview of a top Al Qaeda leader Mustafa Abu ul Yazid a.k.a Sheikh Saeed, and it was like watching a thrilling drama. It was all way too dramatic. They way the reporter of GEO “happened” to meet an old friend, and expressed his desire to have an interview […]



Dr. Shahid Masood Finds a Whipping Boy

By Fatima Tassaduq • Jul 22nd, 2008 • Category: Politics

There is a very famous statement of Punjabi which roughly translates in English like this “Those who were actually doing it , ran and those who were just taking a bath, got in trouble.” That was what happened with Deputy Managing Director of Pakistan Television, Shahid Mehmood Nadeem.
Shahid Nadeem was sacked by the newly appointed […]