The truth is that Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) have always remained some “other” part for the rest of the Pakistanis and every successive government whether civilian or military has never even tried to change the status of these areas, and to add petrol to the fire, this area was roughly utilized in the Afghan […]
I was reading the latest column by Ardsher Cowasjee (to whom TPS has also interviewed) , where he says, “We must accept that we are a nation of 170 million, largely illiterate, brainwashed by bigotry, and highly intolerant of each other. A report in the national press last week made reference to recent studies made […]
The government on Wednesday replaced the Chairman Federal Board of Revenue Abdullah Yousuf by cancelling his contract.
Waqar Ahmed, Secretary Board of Investment, has been appointed in his place, as per a notification issued by the Establishment Division. Abdullah Yousuf, considered to be the closest bureaucrat to President Musharraf, was tasked to run the prime federal […]
Enough has been said and sloganeered in the name of restitution of the deposed judges, and nation has seen enough of expediency, manipulation and shenanigans on the part of politicians and other stakeholders in this contentious game, and now it should be over at one side or another.
In a declaration of All Pakistan Lawyers Convention, […]
Our “foreign land” of FATA is getting more lawless and more prone to the foreign intervention day by day, and at that juncture the calling of the meeting of coalition partners is a very welcome step. That, and the decision taken in this meeting is also plausible. The ruling coalition has agreed to engage in […]
The horrendous slaying of Benazir Bhutto, the two-time Prime Minister of this hapless country, last year in Rawalpindi is still an unsolved mystery, and her own successors are pulling every cosmetic rabbit out of their grinning bags and still there is no initiations of any United Nations investigations. One also wonders as what wonder, the […]
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 […]
The languishing coalition between PML-N and PPP with the minor partners of JUI-F and ANP, and also MQM in Karachi is going no where, and as PML-N, JUI-F and ANP have already conveyed their dismay over the monopoly of PPP over the decision making, a new wave of mistrust has swept between PPP and MQM […]
GEO News has telecasted an hour long interview of a top Al Qaeda leader Mustafa Abu ul Yazid a.k.a Sheikh Saeed, and it was like watching a thrilling drama. It was all way too dramatic. They way the reporter of GEO “happened” to meet an old friend, and expressed his desire to have an interview […]
Spokesman of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan Maulvi Muhammad Umar said the Taliban were waiting for further instructions from Baitullah Mahsud as the deadline to the Awami National Party’s Government in NWFP has ended. What sort of instructions those would be? What else except of killing more innocent Muslims in suicide attacks and bomb blasts.
Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan is asking […]
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