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The Sales at Shops during Ramadan!

By Mian Usman • Sep 5th, 2009 • Category: Misc, Worth A Second Look

All other parts of the world we see genuine sales and promotional campaigns at Christmas and Easter where people could buy real good stuff right for eatables to clothing at 1/3 of actual price. We see alot of buying activity there and people either rich or the poor get benefit out of these sales on [...]



The Ramadan is here!

By Mian Usman • Aug 23rd, 2009 • Category: Misc, Worth A Second Look

Greetings to you all on the start of the Holy month of Ramadan. It’s the month of testing of faith, steadfastness, patience, discipline, humanity, love for fellow beings and above all revival of true Islamic spirit that should have been there in us through out the year. It’s a reminder to us all who remained [...]



Where is My Eidi ?

By Amna Gilani • Oct 2nd, 2008 • Category: Politics

Suffocation in the shops, smell of heavy sweat, hot weather and extreme humidity are not the reason that people are finding it hard to head towards the markets in the first Eid of Summer after almost 36 years, rather it’s the security situation in the country, which has put the whole country in uncertainty and [...]



Apna Apna Chand, Apni Apni Eid Mubarak

By M Mirza • Oct 1st, 2008 • Category: Politics (Urdu)


This Eid, Rise Above the Ashes

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Oct 1st, 2008 • Category: Politics

The ravishing and dazzling festival of Eid represents an occasion to renew one’s commitment to his responsibilities, just as the fasting was throughout the thirty days of the blessed month of Ramadan ul Mubarak. Allah, the most exalted and most gracious and most merciful, has made the month of Ramadan an occasion in which the [...]



Buying Pressures on Market, Is There Any Solution?

By Farid Masood • Sep 11th, 2008 • Category: Misc, Worth A Second Look

When salaried class get wages, they go for grocery shopping and dry items for upcoming 15 or 30 days. The Business or upper class purchase items 10 to 15 days in advance for the coming time especially when Ramadan comes. This activity puts buying pressures in the market. Producers of general kitchen items are producing [...]



Ramadan = Price Hike + Hoarding

By Ghazala Khan • Sep 6th, 2008 • Category: Politics

The holy month of Ramazan has been welcomed with traditional zeal and zest and the prices of all the things have been raised from 50% to 80%. The prices of fruits and vegetable remained all time high and shortage of flour prevailed and the prices of oil, pulses, milk, and other edibles have gone through [...]



Escalating Food Crisis

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • May 19th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Intensifying food shortage across the globe, and especially in the third world countries like Pakistan has got many nightmares in store, which are steadily becoming reality one by one, and the heightening inflation, rampant hoarding, lack of water, dearth of harvesting land, and mismanagement of crops have made the matters worst.
It’s a rancid vituperative fact [...]



People Eating Sugar or Sugar Eating People

By Farid Masood • Mar 2nd, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

There were times when people disliked white sugar very much. People who make it part of their food items (deserts etc) keep white sugar in hidden places so that people don’t know about it.
With the passage of time need of sweetener increased and the sales of white sugar increased. Last year sugar was hoarded and [...]



Atta Atta Atta

By Ghazala Khan • Jan 6th, 2008 • Category: Politics

When the stomach is empty, humans cannot even think straight. Hunger is unbearable for anyone anywhere. When people of Pakistan see their children crying due to shortage of food, they just go out of their minds and start looting and plundering and torching the offices of government, which cannot provide them basic necessities of life, [...]