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NA-123 Belongs to Nawaz Sharif

By Rohail Butt • Mar 9th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Whatever strange dishes may be cooked by the opponents, the truth of the matter is that in NA-123 Lahore, the votebank only belongs to the PML-N. Hafiz Salman Butt may be hyper-active and Mian Hamid Miraj may have a clean reputed father, that doesn’t really stand them a chance to even intimidate any candidate with [...]



Imran Khan’s Cheap and Dirty Politics

By Rohail Butt • Mar 8th, 2010 • Category: Politics

It’s time that Imran Khan of Tehrik-e-Insaf face the reality, see the mirror, read and understand the writing on the wall. He is not to be accepted as the leader of Pakistan. He cannot be a popular political leader and it is highly unlikely that his party could win even a single seat throughout Pakistan [...]



Tehrik-e-Insaf Should Also Do Insaf with itself

By Ch. Naeem Sidhu • Feb 27th, 2010 • Category: Features


We are not Servants of Sharifs, Bhuttos and Imrans

By Ali Yar Khan • Feb 12th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Pakistan’s former prime ministers Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto went out of this world in unusual circumstances and as is expected in Pakistan, their parties declared them martyrs.
Ask from Ijazul Haq, son of former dictator General Ziaul Haq who died in plane crash, and Ijaz would call his father a martyr. From the ashes [...]



Iblees Ka Sajda

By Kaptain Mirza • Dec 28th, 2009 • Category: Politics

The awaited NRO is defeated and buried but unearthed the same old faces who would want to come back for a kill yet sometime again, if we falter. We have been for the last 62 years. The glimmer of hope that each one of us awaited finally came. Reaching there seemed easy but for how [...]



Imran Khan’s undemocratic proclamation

By Anwar Jalal • Dec 19th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Imran Khan , stated  in Mardan the  other day(13 Dec) that as Nawaz Sharief wanted to become a  civilian dictator  so overthrowing of his  government  by Pervez Musharraf  was a right step. Imran khan these remarks are  highly shocking .He always  talk about the  upholding of  democracy and  supremacy of the constitution while  on the [...]



Imran Khan to Liaise Between Taliban and Government

By Ali Yar Khan • Dec 10th, 2009 • Category: Politics

The chief of Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf Imran Khan has offered to play role for the peace in country and he has asked government to allow him to mediate between government and the Taliban within the parameters of law.
On the face of it, this is a fine initiative, but practically does it holds any water?
Government [...]



We are at War, dammit

By Ali Yar Khan • Nov 7th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Until and unless we dare to wade into the hot waters, we cannot learn how swim in it. We have to part with the rhetoric and the advices and venture out to assert ourselves. Never was more crucial and decisive the time as it is now in our turbulent history.
We are in the middle of [...]



Zardari, Sharif and Co. – The fleece that wouldn’t sell

By Kaptain Mirza • Oct 29th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Yet another feast and this is NOT a feat. The nation wilts and tilts to a position where there is no return. The Army is locked up, beefed up and engaged from where it cannot step back but from whence it has to return victor, no second option. Until then the pawns have to be [...]



Thinking Leaders Needed

By Salman Mugsi • Oct 29th, 2009 • Category: Politics

There is no doubt that this is the most difficult times for Pakistan. The administrative and the military infrastructure is under attack and the morale of the public is all time low. Democracy was hope which has diminished and people have stopped caring.
In these difficult times for the country, the leaders are safely tucked. President [...]