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No New Deadline from Dr. Shahid Masood

By Umer Toor • Mar 18th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Now even March is passing without any major development and there is no chance that the President Asif Ali Zardari or his companions would go out. The government of PPP is intact and kicking and thriving. Crisis are unfolding as it is, but the government is facing them headon and thwarting them without blinking an [...]



GEO News Become Mouthpiece of Terrorists

By Umer Toor • Mar 13th, 2010 • Category: Politics

One thing is for sure, if the government decides to crackdown on the GEO New, nobody from the public will shed a tear. Rather people will celebrate and cherish it and it would like a thanks day in the country.
When the city of Lahore was rocking with the terrorists attack, the GEO news was broadcasting [...]



Salman Taseer; A Loyal Worker of President Zardari

By Umer Toor • Mar 9th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Those who consider Pakistan People’s Party anything separate from the Asif Ali Zardari live in fools’ paradise. Asif Ali Zardari is the guardian of this party of martyrs. Zardari could have lived abroad and look after his business, but he prefered to come back to Pakistan to service the poor and needy people in the [...]



Rana Sanaullah’s Nexus with Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan

By Umer Toor • Mar 9th, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

There are some occasions when we must rise above the political and personal differences. There are some issues which need immediate attention from the leaders and the masses. The alleged links between the law minister of Punjab Rana Sanaullah with the banned religious outfit Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) is one of those burning issue.
In the recent [...]



Minor Police Torture in Public is Necessary in Pakistan

By Umer Toor • Mar 5th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Those who are raising eyebrows over the video clips of torture by police on the criminals are either unaware of the ground realities in the country or they are just like the populous media which has nothing better to do these days. NRO is a dead horse, and the opposition and judiciary is also silent. [...]



GEO Lost, Zardari Won

By Umer Toor • Mar 4th, 2010 • Category: Politics

All the media clowns, conspiracy theorists, spin wizards and arm-chair strategists on the payroll of GEO and Jang Group have become tepid, hopeless and grim, as despite of their hard efforts, the sun of Zardari is illuminating with full vigor on the horizon of Pakistan, and the people of Pakistan have prevailed once again under [...]



We Rule, You Protect

By Umer Toor • Feb 27th, 2010 • Category: Worth A Second Look

The weather is changing in Pakistan, and the scorching summer is giving way to chilling cold, and that also means that there will be less load-shedding of electricity. But the mind inevitably turns towards the state of affairs of the country and desperation prevails.
Why we even discuss that in case this government fails, the system [...]



Zardari’s Sun Remains Unbotched

By Umer Toor • Feb 23rd, 2010 • Category: Politics

The illustrious prime minister of Pakistan, Yousuf Raza Gilani has once again not only saved the country’s peace but also has shown that he stands shoulder to shoulder with the president Asif Ali Zardari, the iron man who has been at the helm of the affairs after the assassination of his wife Benazir Bhutto when [...]



PPP and Zardari are here to Stay

By Umer Toor • Feb 17th, 2010 • Category: Politics

They are as usual making deadlines and forecasting about the last-whistle times for the departure of the President Asif Ali Zardari. The story which everyone out of the power and popularity wants to tell is that the Pakistan People Party is disheartened and disintegrating fast and would soon be nobody.
Those predictions and false hopes were [...]



Meher Bukhari, Saima Mohsin, Shaukat Paracha, Asma Shirazi Pictures in Drink and Dance Party?

By Umer Toor • Feb 1st, 2010 • Category: Politics

Why Pakistani Journalists can’t see Black Water ? < >  < >  < >< >CIA Public Relations at work? Do you expect this “Pakistani media” would tell you the truth and serves the interests of Islam and Pakistan? If you still believe that then may Allah help you and show you the righteous path before [...]