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Pakistan-India Primes Met up

By Muskan Hina • Aug 2nd, 2008 • Category: Politics

Just read the joint statement by the Pakistani foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi told reporters that he and his Indian counterpart Pranab Mukherjee, and you would be impressed by the verbosity which actually means nothing.
But one thing which has come good out of the recent visionless visit of our premier Makhdoom Yousuf to United States […]



Crisis of Leadership

By Muskan Hina • Jul 23rd, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

At the time of crisis, it’s the core responsibility of the leaders to give nation confidence and calmness and increase their nexus with the populace to foster harmony and to bolster their morale. Right now Pakistan is entangled in myriad number of crisis. Economic meltdown is just round the corner, and the prices of everything […]



Lyari Gang War

By Muskan Hina • Jul 13th, 2008 • Category: Politics

As if the militant groups challenging the writ of the government in the tribal region of Pakistan, and Sindhi and Balochi tribes fighting with each other with heavy arms were not enough, we have also a full blow gang war in the most advanced, educated, biggest, and cultivated city of Pakistan, the city of lights […]



ClickClick.pk and The Pakistani Spectator

By Muskan Hina • Jul 3rd, 2008 • Category: Misc

The soil of Pakistan is fertile for the technology and the business, and clickclick is yet another proof of it. We at TPS are proud to be part of clickclick, and we also believe that the day will come very soon when clickclick would be the ultimate advertising choice and will replace Google Adsense and […]



Don’t Fool Us More

By Muskan Hina • Jun 25th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Under the Constitution, a constitutional amendment can be passed only by a two-thirds majority in both houses of parliament. Both PPP and PML-N don’t have the majority in the senate, and so they cannot adopt the proposed amendment in the constitutional package prepared by Asif Ali Zardari & co.
This package is now being presented to […]



Civil Dictatorship

By Muskan Hina • Jun 22nd, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

When Benazir Bhutto was alive, she made herself the life-time chairperson of her party. In her time, nobody dared to utter even a light squeal against her any decision or even a sneeze. She was the only decision maker in her party and her words were like the gospels. Her orders were the ultimate, and […]



For PPP-PML Judges are not an Issue

By Muskan Hina • Jun 21st, 2008 • Category: Politics

It is true that the lawyers movement has won considerable support in the people, and one major party of the country along with other small time players are supporting it overtly, but it is also true that this issue, in actual, has not remained the top most issue between PPP and PML-N, who have joined […]



Fazlu’s Blackmailing

By Muskan Hina • May 23rd, 2008 • Category: Politics

As Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) is trying to accumulate numbers in the parliament to get it’s constitutional package through without PML-N, Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam chief Fazlur Rehman has already started blackmailing PPP.
He is asking for a heavy share in the cabinet with lucrative ministries. As PML-N’s Khawaja Asif has left the ministry of Petroleum, Fazlur […]



Green Pakistan : An Elusive Dream

By Muskan Hina • May 21st, 2008 • Category: Misc, Worth A Second Look

How many people in Pakistan have heard of “Global Warming”, “Greenhouse Gases” and “Climate Legislative Regulations”? How many actually care about pollution and global warming and the emission of harmful gases? What efforts our successive governments have made to shift people away from damaging the environ?
According to the media reports, prior to the meeting of […]



Damadola’s Reaction in Mardan

By Muskan Hina • May 18th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

What else was it? More than dozen people died in a suicide attack near Punjab Regimental Center, Mardan this evening. This suicidal attack came when people of Pakistan started to forget the bloody nightmarish memory of attacks in the wake of change of government.
But United States doesn’t want stability in Pakistan. US was ill at […]