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We are a Confused Nation

By Rohail Butt • Sep 25th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Confusion is not a habit or custom, rather it’s a disease. Confusion renders a man useless, and it chokes the nations and countries, and when nations become victim of the confusion, they inhilate in no time. Pakistan is passing through a sea of confusion.
Pakistan is going through a war, but Pakistanis are in confusion about […]



President of Committees

By Rohail Butt • Sep 21st, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Addressing a Joint Parliamentary session, President Asif Ali Zardari once again showered smiles and words and there was nothing practical in his speech. He neither touched on the pressing problems of Pakistan, let alone giving any policy or solution of them. He was just there standing blabbing in almost incomprehensible language with warped accent, and […]



What’s the Problem in Punjab?

By Rohail Butt • Sep 19th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Pakistan People’s Party enjoys just 37% weightage in the national assembly and has just 125 votes in there. They have their speaker, deputy speaker, prime minister, president and they now are running all the affairs of the country at the national level, and they are the part of government in all the provinces, though […]



Sane Reaction From Some US Congressmen on US Attacks in Pakistan

By Rohail Butt • Sep 17th, 2008 • Category: Politics

The Bush administration risks expanding the failed war in Afghanistan into Pakistan, says a US lawmaker while commenting on the US decision to conduct raids into Pakistani territory.
The question of sending US ground troops inside Pakistan seems to have become an
election issue in the United States where voters are scheduled to elect a new president […]



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, […]