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Posts Tagged ‘economy’

The Oily Drone Attack by OGRA

By Rai Azlan • Feb 3rd, 2010 • Category: Features

This past Saturday, I was having a day off so I decided to finish some unfinished business and I started it by paying the bill of tailor uncle, getting the engine oil of my bike was the next, the list is bit long so let me come the thing I did last I went to [...]



Resign Mr Tareen

By Farid Masood • May 14th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Government is earning from many heads, petroleum is a major source for enormous and illegitimate earning. Illegitimate in a sense that we import maximum part of daily consumption from other countries, it effect the citizens directly and if the effect is more than it should be then it becomes illegitimate.
We also seek that other [...]



Obama’s Surge in Pakistan/An Indian looks at the Opium trade

By Johann • Feb 6th, 2009 • Category: Politics

As America is retreating( so called surge is basically asking for fig leaf before the exit as in Iraq) , there is tremendous amount of churning going on in Afghanistan. This was evident to everyone for sometime .When President Karzai desperately wanted Mullah Omar to accept his offer of safe passage was the first sign [...]



Gilani Providing Jobs : But From Where ?

By Ali Yar Khan • Feb 4th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Providing jobs is one of the main responsibility of the government, but before that creating such opportunities is a must. When the economy is at knees and when the private sector has become crippled and the financial markets are crumbling and the deficits are gaping from every nook and when there is shortage of everything, [...]



Economic Might

By Talal Hussain Malik • Nov 28th, 2008 • Category: Misc, Worth A Second Look

What describes well the trend in the 21st century should be nothing else than the plain words annunciating the fact that Economic might is the real might. We are living in a world where a strong economy alone can ensure our presence on the world map, for this is a world where economy alone runs [...]



Pakistan’s Economic Crises & “The Short-Cut Tareen” Formula

By Farid Masood • Oct 28th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Mr Shaukat Aziz, Ex-Prime Minster of Pakistan, became Prime Minister through a shortcut route, due to it he was nick named as ‘Short-cut Aziz’. His policies were to snatch hard earned money of the nation through various offers from the banking sector (credit cards, loans etc) and to strengthen the banking sector, coz he was [...]



Pseudo Talibans

By Farid Masood • Oct 15th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Irrespective of that who made Al-Qaeda, Taliban etc like groups and used for what reasons and on what fronts, when the utility of such groups is over then defaming and creating and projecting negative (required) image is done by use of media and diplomatic channels. There could be certain different affiliations of these created groups and [...]



Americans Killing Themselves Over Financial Crisis

By Fatima Tassaduq • Oct 14th, 2008 • Category: Politics

An out-of-work money manager in California loses a fortune and wipes out his family in a murder-suicide. A 90-year-old Ohio widow shoots herself in the chest as authorities arrive to evict her from the modest house she called home for 38 years.
In Massachusetts, a housewife who had hidden her family’s mounting financial crisis from her [...]



Nudity of Our Enemies

By The Pakistani Spectator • Aug 29th, 2008 • Category: Politics

I am not a Zardari’s fan or Musharraf lover, I am just a son of my mother…motherland Pakistan and thats is the only reason constraint me to use my weapon “PEN” on this crutial issue.
Why Europian and American media claims that “ZARDARI IS PSCHCO PATIENT” at this stage?
Musharraf was gone with the wind, Cheif of [...]



Zardari is Pagal?

By Rohail Butt • Aug 27th, 2008 • Category: Politics

New York Times, Financial Times, Daily Telegraph and host of other American and European papers and magazines are raising hell that nuclear Pakistan is going to have such a president next month who is diagnosed with a range of psychiatric illnesses, including dementia, major depressive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder.
It goes without saying that the [...]