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Hajj Quota : Private Hajj Operators or Parliamentarians ?

By Fatima Tassaduq • Jun 29th, 2009 • Category: Politics

According to the Saudi laws, it is mandatory for the governments to provide Hajj Quota to the private tour operators, but it is not mandatory that the Hajj Qota be provided to the parliamentarians. Government has abolished the quota of the parliamentarians and over that many parliamentarians are going haywire and protesting vehemently, as it [...]



Is Saudi Arabia Friend of Muslims?

By Gul Raiz • May 6th, 2009 • Category: Politics

The whole of Muslim Ummah spends billions of dollars annually in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Besides of this huge income, fraction of only which is spent on the maintenance of the Holy Sites, Allah has bestowed this land with almost unending oil.
Trillions upon trillions of dollars are stinking in the banks of America and [...]



Root Cause of Restiveness

By Rohail Butt • May 7th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Is the root cause Nawaz Sharif or Pervez Musharraf? If any one of the both quits the rule, the strong possibility is that the shenanigans of the power politics would end, which are emanating from the camp office Rawalpindi.
The extreme and mighty focus of General (r) Pervez Musharraf right now is to oust Nawaz Sharif [...]



Zardari dancing to the tunes of the Establishment

By Samad Khurram • Apr 25th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Suppose The Establishment and Zardari were to team up, how would the script have rolled?

Zardari would have wanted to become PM.
For that he would need to have all his murder, corruption, money laundering charges dropped.
Requirement for BA would be dropped (though according to some sources Zardari is a graduate)
By elections would be delayed.

The establishment [...]



Wellspring of Power is People not POP

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Mar 7th, 2008 • Category: Politics

It is unlikely and nation understands that the new government would be unable to solve all the gaping crisis in a jiffy and there exists no magic wand to make the evils disappear in split second.
The coalition government must understand that it was the people who brought them in power, and it was people who [...]



US, NATO, KSA ; Stop Meddling

By Sameer Shaharyar • Mar 6th, 2008 • Category: Politics

United States, NATO, and Saudia Arabia has to accept the will of people of Pakistan. United States is using NATO to persuade Asif Ali Zardari to keep President Musharraf at the top, whereas Kingdom of SA is using it’s offices to press on Nawaz Sharif to show flexibility in the matter of ex-general.
The open coercive [...]



Taliban Bogey Creation in Europa

By The Pakistani Spectator • Jan 24th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Does this litany of death, fear and violence indicate to you that the terrorism has
“largely ended” or it’s just sporadic or does it indicate to you that the spokespersons telling us the terrorism has “largely ended” are “largely nuts”?
The answer to that question determines whether you’re observing the things with open eyes living in Pakistan [...]



Another Attack on Judiciary

By The Pakistani Spectator • Sep 16th, 2007 • Category: Uncategorized

Chaudry Shujaat Hussain, former prime minister and the president of ruling Muslim League, in a display of his version of political bravery, has said that judiciary should give the verdicts according to the law and not according to their wishes. He has also dropped a gem by saying that judiciary should also give justice to [...]



Suiting of Pakistani Women

By The Pakistani Spectator • Jun 20th, 2007 • Category: Uncategorized

In today’s newspaper it was written that the Saudi Government has objected the suiting of Pakistani Woman during Hajj and made it compulsory that she shall have to put on suit recommended by them.
In an TV program on AAG Channel a girl asked the host of the show that you should also wear “Shalwar [...]