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Are Taliban Returning?

By Maria Sultan • Mar 10th, 2010 • Category: Politics

With the recent horrendously terrible Lahore Suicide attack, the attention of the people has once again reverted to the wearingly familiar pattern of terrorism. After months of uneasy silence, a terrorist struck and killed humans and once again sent a very bad image of the Pakistan across the globe.
Things still remain undefined and potentially [...]



Chittrol of Nude Prisoners in Pakistan in Public

By Maria Sultan • Mar 4th, 2010 • Category: Politics

As if we didn’t know.  The media has found another pastime and this time it is police.
DSP Muhammad Akram was suspended while four other policemen were arrested on Wednesday after a video showed a policeman publicly beating denuded suspects with a fat leather strap (chittar) as other cops held down the victims in Bhowana police [...]



Bloody Revolution for the Protocol Lovers

By Maria Sultan • Mar 3rd, 2010 • Category: Politics

To our utter shame, even the democracy has become a farce in the country. No wonder, when the reigns of the governance are in the hands of those who poke fun at the kids who come into this world amidst of cruel protocols , then there is no doubt that democracy is such a sham [...]



Please End Farce of CoD

By Maria Sultan • Mar 1st, 2010 • Category: Politics

We have gone tired of hearing about the charter of democracy which was signed between the politicians of the Pakistan in London and two of the major signatories were Mian Nawaz Sharif and late Benazir Bhutto.
The recommendations as were written in this charter have yet to materialize in the country, though two years have passed [...]



Is There a Way Forward?

By Maria Sultan • Feb 23rd, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

It is mind-boggling to believe that with such a vast operation going on at our North West border, the war will be over with in weeks or even within months. Can we afford to carry on this operation for even two more weeks? Or in other words, can we afford twice-a-day suicide attacks?
It sounds like [...]



Farooq Naek, Latif Khosa, Babar Awan; Crisis Generators

By Maria Sultan • Feb 20th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Farooq H Naek, the chairman senate will become the president of Pakistan, if the current president of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari is sacked, jailed, exiled or simply ousted by any coup or by any verdict by judiciary. Latif Khosa is living with an allegation of taking bribe in a high profile case, and he was [...]



Zardari Ends Up with Egg on Face: Supreme Court Rules

By Maria Sultan • Feb 13th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Pakistan’s esteemed and greatest judiciary has once again proved its mettle, when it overruled and suspended the wayward appointments of civilian dictator of Pakistan.
Pakistan’s judiciary is free and they have shown that now no one will be able to play with the justice and people of this country. They have shown that judges are there [...]



What They See in Latif Khosa

By Maria Sultan • Feb 12th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Atta variation in our country. At one side, the Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry is trying hard to clear the filth from the judiciary and harranguing on the virtues of justice and fair play and on other other side, the government is filling up the posts with the proven and notorious characters.
Latif Khosa is former [...]



Flabbergasted America

By Maria Sultan • Feb 9th, 2010 • Category: Politics

President Zardari Asif Ali Zardari announced some days ago that he was transferring formal control over Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal to Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani. That came as a surprise to many and many jumped to the conclusion that it showed the mounting pressure upon the presidency in the wake of NRO and the deteriorating [...]



Plaza of Rana Sanaullah

By Maria Sultan • Feb 3rd, 2010 • Category: Politics

Law should be same for everyone. It should be same for Shumaila Rana and for Rana Sanaullah. PML-N has been so self-righteous throughout these years, and they have taken some stringent steps even against their own workers and leaders, and now there is one more to do.
Shahbaz Sharif started a ruthless campaign against the illegal [...]