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Posts Tagged ‘Balochistan’

What Was Going on in the Marriott Hotel?

By Ali Yar Khan • Sep 21st, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Marriott Hotel has now become a ghost house which was yesterday the most beautiful and prestigious hotels in the Islamabad. While the condemnation of the blasts and the deaths and the loss of property is going on from all the quarters, some intriguing news is also pouring in.
After the blast, mysteriously fire was started at […]



Marriott Hotel on Collapse : India Involved

By Gul Raiz • Sep 20th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Just on the eve of Pakistan’s new democratic president Asif Ali Zardari’s joint session address, scrooge of terrorism struck in Islamabad’s most sensitive area not too far away from the President House. I am so angry I don’t want to even discuss how many died and how many got injured, I just want to tell […]



Alive Burial of 5 Balochi Women : Ego or Tradition?

By Amna Gilani • Sep 3rd, 2008 • Category: Misc, Worth A Second Look

Senator Israrullah Zehri and the senator Jan Mohammad Jamali first said with arrogance that the English newspaper columnists of Islamabad cannot understand the Baloch traditions and principles. They both were adamant to defend the gruesome sin committed in their areas and they were of the opinion that those traditions are carrying on for the thousands […]



Please Bury Me Alive Because I want to Marry

By Amna Gilani • Aug 30th, 2008 • Category: Politics

I am a female and I want to live. By living I mean that I want to decide some basic things about my life. I want to decide as when I want marry or with whom I want to marry. It’s my life and I have every right to make my choices. My humanity and […]



Five Pakistani Women Buried Alive By Brother of PPP Minister

By Amna Gilani • Aug 30th, 2008 • Category: Misc, Worth A Second Look

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a remote area of Balochistan province, that five women were buried alive, allegedly by the younger brother of Mr. Sadiq Umrani, the provincial minister and a prominent leader of the Pakistan People’s Party, the ruling party. However, police have still not arrested the perpetrators after […]



Precarious Pakistan

By Ghazala Khan • Aug 23rd, 2008 • Category: Politics

Though I wasn’t around in the world when the East Pakistan became Bangladesh in 1971, I even then feel pangs of pain. After reading through the accounts of that era, and then extrapolating it with the current happenings in Pakistan, the situation looks more grimmer and more bleak and the foreseeable future is very alarming.
Well […]



Irfanullah Khan and Zubaida Jalal

By Rohail Butt • Aug 16th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

As the rulers of yesteryears are departing and the new government is settling in, the pushed dirt under the carpet is surfacing steadily. After the statement by Zardari that Musharraf committed serious misappropriation in the greenbacks given by US in reference of war on terror, there were allegations of Musharraf’s son taking money in exchange […]



Talibanization of Karachi : Fears of MQM

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Aug 11th, 2008 • Category: Politics

According to the media reports, the chief of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Altaf Hussain, has said that the country was facing socio-economic crises and impeachment of president at this point in time but the conspiracies to escalate Talibanization in Karachi was the chief issue to be addressed. The threat of Talibanisation is on the […]



Shahbaz Navigates in Balochistan

By Ali Yar Khan • Jul 16th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

One of the best thing ever happened to Pakistan is the chief minister of Punjab, Mian Shahbaz Sharif, the younger brother of Nawaz Sharif, the two time Prime Minister of Pakistan. Famous for his endless energy and the burning desire for efficiency and providing relief to the poor, Shahbaz Sharif is once again at the […]



Cold War Gets Hot between PPP and PML-N

By Salman Mugsi • Jul 3rd, 2008 • Category: Politics

It’s just matter of time before the unnatural coalition of Pakistan Democratic Alliance goes down the drain. Both PPP and PML-N have already drawn the guns and are about to fire. Last bits of sweeteners are being scantily sprinkled by some hopefuls, but there is very remote chance of revival.
After showing it’s stern differences over […]