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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 […]



Swat ka Ujra Suhag

By Muskan Hina • May 15th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Swat was the honeymoon of Pakistan. In the season, in this heavenly place you could find thousands of young couples starting their lives amidst smiling flowers, singing ravines, majestic mountains, lavishing lakes, and ravishing sceneries. From Bahrain to Kalam, and from Matta to Kabal to Mangora, nature showed it’s beauty at zenith.
Nature is still there […]



Neocon’s Pakistan

By Muskan Hina • May 13th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Pakistan’s political dynamics and mechanics are meticulously controlled by the neocons in the United States, who are hell bent on creating a new world for them. There interests and stakes are so high in this region, that they have to micro manage the affairs in this semi-banana republic.
Power of rule is a very deceptive thing. […]



Judges : Ego Issue

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

People are committing suicide due to the food shortage and children are dying due to the unavailability of the medical care, and the load-shedding has brought the national industry and working areas to a grinding  halt, and the fat egos of our leaders are entangled in the meaningless brawls.
All of them including Pervez Musharraf, Asif […]



What’s the Plan?

By Muskan Hina • May 10th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Nation knows that the new government hasn’t got the lamp of Aladdin to solve the problems in one day, but at least they should show some progress and they should rise above the rhetoric and the blame game to the previous government.
It’s so painfully funny to see the ministers and Prime Minister to blame for […]



Amirana Culture

By Muskan Hina • May 9th, 2008 • Category: Politics

It’s not that only Fauji dictators have got the exclusive liberty, talent and knack of showing tyrant approach. Pakistan, in its sixty years has by and large witnessed the same tyranny during the brief spells of so-called democracy.
It’s in the very nature of the army rulers to act in a dictator way, but the question […]



Tariq Azizuddin : Forgotten Ambassador

By Muskan Hina • May 5th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Tariq Azizuddin, his driver and his bodyguard had disappeared on February 11 while they were going toward the Afghan border from Peshawar. Then a video was released which showed the abducted ambassador pleading for his release from the authorities and his friends amidst the masked men with weapons pointing at the ambassador.
The anguish of the […]