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Posts Tagged ‘Jamia Hafsa’

Jamia Hafsa Brigade CDs in Swat : Where is Writ of Gov?

By Ali Yar Khan • Apr 24th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Throughout Malakand Agency, compact discs of Jamia Hafsa operations are being sold almost for free and they are being sold in the markets openly under the supervision of the Taliban. Such CDs are banned in the Peshawar and the other cities of Pakistan, though they are available secretly but they are easily available in the [...]



Musharraf Sprinkles Salt on Lal Masjid Wounds

By Ali Yar Khan • Jul 6th, 2008 • Category: Politics

The day when full one year passed after the operation on the Lal Masjid and Jamia Hafsa in which thousands of innocent girls and boys died in ghastly way, Musharraf appeared in a ceremony and justified and boasts his actions, and reaffirms that he would carry on with it streak if needed and allowed. God [...]



Lal Masjid Operation : One Year Passed

By Rohail Butt • Jul 4th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Who knew in the 60s that the Mosque which was being built in the heart of new capital Islamabad and was named Red Mosque, would actually turn red in 2007 and would act as the divisive line between two school of thoughts in the country ensuing a bloody backlash from the radical wing. Though the [...]



They won’t know what hit them

By Rohail Butt • Jun 22nd, 2008 • Category: Politics

General (r) Pervez Musharraf has been holding the country by throat for almost nine years now. His crimes are innumerable, and like all dictators he has left the country tainted and maimed. Besmirched economy, Maimed morale of the nation, rotten law and order, destroyed institution, defamed Army and wars knocking on our all doors is [...]



Amar Bail of Musharraf Epoch

By Sameer Shaharyar • Jun 13th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Had Pervez Musharraf found someone like Ehtasham Zamir of 2002 elections, in the 2008 February elections, he would have once again been gloating and wallowing with the PML-Quislers and MQMers, and perhaps we would have some one from MQM as Prime Minister, or he could be none other than Punjab’s Shame Chaudhary Pervaiz Elahi.
Now one [...]



Shujaat Opens Up Against Musharraf

By Sameer Shaharyar • Jun 9th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Chaudhary Shujaat Hussain is getting fits of frustration over his bleak political future. Though he is a veteran politician, he forgot that whenever a politician sells himself in the hands of a dictator, he becomes a smelling relic for the general public, and that is what Chaudhary Shujaat Hussain has become.
With his PML-Q disintegrating steadily, [...]



Chemical Weapons Conventions and Phosphorous Bombs

By Gul Raiz • Jun 8th, 2008 • Category: Politics

I don’t know and I want to ask from the learned readers that does the phosphorous bombs come under the jurisdiction of Chemical Weapons Convention, of which Pakistan is a signatory?
The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) is an arms control agreement which outlaws the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons. Its complete name is the [...]



We Cannot Forget Lal Masjid / Jamia Hafsa

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Jun 7th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

When more than 4,000 innocent students girls of all ages weren’t allowed to escape from the siege of Jamia Hafsa and Lal Masjid and they were burned down alive by the phosphorous bombs, then why should Pervez Musharraf be allowed to escape without any trial and punishment?
The brave and daring martyr girls of Jamia Hafsa [...]



Rain of Testimonies

By Sameer Shaharyar • Jun 5th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Now we fully understand, as why didn’t Pervez Musharraf, the retired commando didn’t give a damn to the verdict of Pakistani people on 18th February. He is a fascist, and the biggest characteristic of a fascist is that he lies with full conviction and then gets spanking by the same aides afterwards who earlier wagged [...]



Rashid Qureshi, Where is Merit in the Army Then?

By Ali Yar Khan • Jun 5th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Lt Gen (R) Jamshaid Gulzar Kiyani on the Geo TV programme ‘Meray Mutabiq’ has done some stunning revelation about the Pervez Musharraf, the retired general who became President of Pakistan in full uniform through a pack of lotas and turncoats, and wants to stick to the throne no matter how much mud is slung on [...]