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PTCL 0800 Service

By Rohail Butt • Sep 15th, 2008 • Category: Entertainment

Pakistan Telecommunication Limited is the white elephant which ought to die as soon as possible. But sadly enough instead of dying it is there sprouting more and more garbage out and forcing it upon the people of Pakistan. The clueless and greedy administration, inept and inefficient staff, pathetic and non-working services and extremely disgusting support […]



Salman Taseer Must Be Leashed

By Rohail Butt • Sep 11th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Salman Taseer and the naughty carnival he is staging in the Lahore with the help of chronic lota from Okara Mian Manzoor Wattoo is now getting out of control and the barking has grown way too louder to be ignored. Not only governor Punjab is spitting venom on the top leadership of the Pakistan Muslim […]



President or Political Hack

By Rohail Butt • Sep 10th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

We as a nation have grown so much desperate and in our hopelessness to find any leader, we are ready to even shy our eyes away from the newly elected President of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari.
True, he has been elected through the proper procedure and true that he has received votes from all across the […]



Stage Set For Presidential Mela

By Rohail Butt • Sep 5th, 2008 • Category: Politics

100 senators, 342 members of National Assembly, 371 members of Punjab Assembly, 168 members of Sindh Assembly, 124 members of NWFP Assembly, and 65 members of Balochistan Assembly would decide as who would be the next President of Pakistan by choosing one among the three candidates; Justice of PML-N, Asif of PPP, and Mushahid of […]



PPP Goes to Faryal Talpur

By Rohail Butt • Sep 5th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Less than handful of people in Pakistan, let alone within the cadres of Pakistan People’s Party would have even heard the name of Faryal Talpur, sister of Asif Ali Zardari, the widow of Benazir Bhutto. She was never very much active in the politics and she never even seen on the national horizon. Though the […]



Greed is the Order of Day

By Rohail Butt • Sep 2nd, 2008 • Category: Politics

Asif Ali Zardari is so desperate to keep the things under control, he used all kinds of chicanery to get to the office of president with 17th amendment intact and with the killer sword of 58(2)B. He even had a covering candidate for the presidential candidate just in case his nomination papers got rejected somehow, […]



Ethos of Today

By Rohail Butt • Sep 2nd, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

These are the times of social and moral chaos in Pakistan. Our two provinces are literally on war and hundreds of thousands of people are finding themselves internally displaced. Social order is in disarray, and there is sheer dearth of power, water and food and the dereliction of rulers to arrange for the basic need […]



Zardari is Pagal?

By Rohail Butt • Aug 27th, 2008 • Category: Politics

New York Times, Financial Times, Daily Telegraph and host of other American and European papers and magazines are raising hell that nuclear Pakistan is going to have such a president next month who is diagnosed with a range of psychiatric illnesses, including dementia, major depressive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder.
It goes without saying that the […]



PPP, PML-N : TALAQ TALAQ TALAQ

By Rohail Butt • Aug 26th, 2008 • Category: Politics

The issue of deposed judges restoration has become an albatross around the neck of those forces who have either sold themselves to the invisible agreements or they have become expedient in the face of monumental challenges. The same issue strangled the forces of dictatorship not long ago, and this issue is all set to expedite […]



Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari

By Rohail Butt • Aug 23rd, 2008 • Category: Entertainment

The Central Executive Committee of Pakistan People’s Party has nominated the PPP Co-chairman, Asif Ali Zardari for the post of president of Pakistan.
Altaf Hussain has proposed the name of Asif Ali Zardari for President of Pakistan.
Salman Taseer, the governor of Punjab has put forward the name of Asif Ali Zardari for the president.
Qaim Ali Shah, […]