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Posts Tagged ‘East Pakistan’

Its not even worth a “TAKKA”

By Saleem Khan • Jul 10th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Since my childhood, I am regularly hearing one Idiom “yeh to Takkay ka bhee nahi hai” means, its not even worth a Takka (Bangladeshi Currency). The idiom is mostly used to show worthless of any commodity or item. Why we uses Takka, not Paisa? Reason is only one, we Pakistanis always felt ourself superior and […]



Pakistan: Paradise Lost

By Saleem Khan • Jul 7th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

August 14, 1947 is important because an independent and sovereign country called Pakistan was added to world atlas on that day. The creation of Pakistan was one of the best things that could have happened for a majority of the people living in this part of the sub-continent. One can weigh the pros and cons […]



Brahamdagh Bugti’s New Balochistan Republican Party

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Jun 6th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Nawab Sardar Brahamdagh Khan Bugti has decided to rename the Jamhori Watan Party (JWP) of his grand father Nawab Akbar Bugti to Balochistan Republican Party (BRP). Brahamdagh Bugti has always supported and facilitated the terrorist activities of terrorist outfit Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), and now he intends to props BLA with the political facet of […]



Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and Dacca Fall

By Ali Yar Khan • Apr 4th, 2008 • Category: Politics

According to the Pakistani custom, when a politician dies an un-natural death, for some time he or she becomes a martyr in the eyes of the majority of the people of country and no one dares to contradict this statement. Same happened to Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, General Ziaul Haq and now to Benazir Bhutto. When […]