The Pakistani Spectator

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Posts Tagged ‘Jamat-e-Islami’

Coming of Age

By Maham Javed • Sep 4th, 2008 • Category: Politics

This is the 21st century; the century of civilization. We have long since stepped past the barbarians, the stone age. The mushrooming, rapid advancements of the modern era and its technologies has made our life a living heaven- and yet not.
Computers, mobile phones and many other transitory advancements have opened doors for another: the most […]



Unpatriotic Decision

By Dawar Naqvi • Aug 27th, 2008 • Category: Politics

“PML (N) may fool all the people some of the time,PML (N) can even fool some of the people all of the time,
But they cannot fool all of the people all the time.”
Since his political party PML (N) became coalition partner of current government they have done only destructive politics.
Pakistan is going through very bad […]



Implications of PPP, PML(N) Carve-up

By Ali Yar Khan • Aug 25th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Whatever happened on 3rd November cannot be justified. It was illegal, unconstitutional and unprincipled and one of the last cries of dictator and the reason why coalition broke was because one partner wanted to retain the echoes of those cries on the whims of international stakeholders and while the other wasn’t feeling that much attachment […]



Blackmail has become respectable

By Dawar Naqvi • Jun 26th, 2008 • Category: Politics

The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of our history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable.
The All Parties Democratic Movement has warned PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari of exposing what it called his corruption of billions of rupees if he failed to […]



IJT Terrorizes Punjab University

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • May 13th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The Nazim of Islami Jamiat Tulaba Punjab University, Rana Zahid Naveed has threatened that if anybody tried to curb their activities in the Punjab University, then there would be a “Dama Dum Must Qalandar” in the whole country. That means that the thugs of Jamiat would try to take hostage where they could do it.
IJT […]



Terrorists of Jamiat Again Disrupt Punjab University

By Fatima Tassaduq • May 12th, 2008 • Category: Misc

Punjab University Lahore has once again been closed down for four days due to the rogue attitude by Islami Jamiat Tulaba, a student-cum-thug wing of Jamat-e-Islami. Dr. Mujahid Mansoori, a person from the University administration has shown courage and refused to allow Jamiat to have its say in the affairs of the university.
IJT wanted to […]



Quid Pro Quo Strategy

By Ali Yar Khan • May 3rd, 2008 • Category: Politics

US Ambassador Anne W. Patterson has played a pivotal role in a new proposed deal between PPP and the Presidential camp. The deal deals with making sure the presence of Pervez Musharraf in the camp office for his full tenure, while not destabilizing the PPP government.
President Musharraf wants Asif Ali Zardari to give indemnity to […]



A True Story of 9th April: Existence of Latent Terrorism?

By Farid Masood • Apr 19th, 2008 • Category: Politics

This is a true story of a person who faced the riots in Karachi on 9th April 2008. The identifications have been eliminated due to some specific reasons. Brother of that affected person has told us this story, it is being appended in his words:
“My brother is a government officer and residing there for years. […]



Qazi Hussain Ahmad Should Join with PML-N

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Feb 22nd, 2008 • Category: Politics

From the positive statements issued by Qazi Hussain Ahmad, which are giving advises to Nawaz Sharif are very encouraging and it seems that Qazi is now realizing his mistake. He should muster courage and accept his folly and should end the boycott and join the democratic forces who are resisting the forces of dictatorship.
Qazi is […]



Devil (continues to) wear beard!

By Ammar Yasir • Nov 20th, 2007 • Category: Politics

Imran Khan is on hunger strike in prison. Yes I am talking about the same guy who leaded the only team which made us the World Champions in the cricketing world. For those who are unaware of the fact that how and when he ended up in jail, I have a very interesting tale to […]