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Fractious FATA

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Jul 25th, 2008 • Category: Politics

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 […]



Population is not a Problem in Pakistan

By Ali Yar Khan • Jul 25th, 2008 • Category: Politics

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 […]



Dance couldn’t save FBR Chief Abdullah Yousaf

By Saleem Khan • Jul 25th, 2008 • Category: Politics

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 […]



Judges Restoration : Do or Die

By Sameer Shaharyar • Jul 24th, 2008 • Category: Politics

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, […]



Coalition For Dialogue in FATA

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Jul 24th, 2008 • Category: Politics

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 […]



What Did Khalid Shahanshah Know?

By Ali Yar Khan • Jul 24th, 2008 • Category: Politics

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 […]



Crisis of Leadership

By Muskan Hina • Jul 23rd, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

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 […]



Enough for Coalition

By Rohail Butt • Jul 23rd, 2008 • Category: Politics

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 […]



Mustafa Abu ul Yazid a.k.a Sheikh Saeed Interview : Another Lawrence of Arabia?

By Fatima Tassaduq • Jul 23rd, 2008 • Category: Politics

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 […]



Deadline to NWFP Government By Talibans

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Jul 23rd, 2008 • Category: Politics

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 […]