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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 […]



That’s The Way, Mahi Way

By Fatima Tassaduq • Jul 18th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Social Democratic Ritt Bjerregaard was the Mayor of Copenhagen and one of the luminary  female ministers. Once she went to Paris to participate in an international conference in her official capacity and resided in a hotel nearby the conference hall, instead of the embassy. She paid the bills of the hotels from her officially allocated […]



PTCL Workers Woes and Etisalat

By Fatima Tassaduq • Jul 17th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Etisalat has 40 per cent share and the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has got 60 per cent share in the Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd (PTCL), which has been privatized and Etisalat is now running the management of the PTCL, and since the time of privatization, the plight of PTCL has gone rock bottom, and both […]



Kashmala Tariq Returns

By Fatima Tassaduq • Jul 17th, 2008 • Category: Politics

The glamorous drama of expulsion of Kashmala Tariq, the political beauty of Pakistan seems to be concluded in few days, as the PML Women Wing President Sumera Malik and Humayun Akhtar, the close friend of Kashmala have managed to smoother the grounds for the return of Kashmala in the party by lobbying hard and they […]



Why Kashmala Tariq Was Kicked Out

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

Though it’s really heart wrenching and painful to see such a glamorous and dainty lady to be treated in this fashion by the Chaudhary Shujaat & co., when they have got a replacement in the form of yet another beautiful lady Marvi Memon, but the truth is that Kashmala is way ahead when it comes […]