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Cats Safeguarding Milk in Karachi

By Salman Mugsi • Mar 2nd, 2010 • Category: Politics

The smouldering current tension on the horizon of the Karachi is not only very ominous for the city, but also very alarming for the country. Though almost all the major parties of the city except Jamat e Islami and Tehrik e Islami are out of the government, the big guns like ANP, MQM and PPP [...]



Khush Bakht Shujaat, Babar Ghauri, Khanzada; Unexplained Assets

By Shayan Khan • Feb 27th, 2010 • Category: Politics

While all political guns are targeting President Asif Ali Zardari for his Swiss millions, the latest declarations of assets by members of parliament have opened a spectrum of new targets, with many new and unexpected millionaires in the run and some having added unexplained crores to their existing wealth in just a few months.
The shocking [...]



Man of Honor

By Tanzeel • Feb 22nd, 2010 • Category: Politics

After the very last press conference of mayor Mustafa Kamal on 17th Feb 2010 in which he recounted the infrastructure development works completed over the past four years, I read about completion of Hawk’s Bay water project today (18th Feb 2010) and other projects which are about to be completed. Now the question arises who [...]



Capricorn within Leo

By Dr RazaHaider • Feb 17th, 2010 • Category: Features

“Pity on these crown holders and their populace; who acts so to react therefore exhibit as Lion but actually they are not mere than Capricorn(Goat) as clowns, who are just for nothing; even unfit and unfeasible to utilized them in milking and as feeding.”



Deaf vision and Dumb Perception

By Dr RazaHaider • Feb 16th, 2010 • Category: Politics

“One mistake shall become the real slip as lash and to act as backlash; thereby improvising the already ready silent visitors with approved claps and clamps from spectators”



Rangers in Karachi

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Feb 3rd, 2010 • Category: Politics

Target killing in Karachi is going on while the coalition partners in the Sindh government are bashing and then forgiving each other. Common poor people are dying on the roads by unidentified marksmen, and yet the authorities are dumbfounded and silent.
Under Anti-Terrorism Act, the Sindh Government has given Rangers complete control for establishing peace in [...]



Ethnocentrism in Karachi

By Guest Blogger • Feb 3rd, 2010 • Category: Politics

Forecast of Quaid-e-Azam about Pakistan with reference to Provincialism,
( 28 March,1948,Dhaka)
“If we begin to think of ourselves as Bengalis, Punjabis, Sindhis etc. first and Muslims and Pakistanis only incidentally, then Pakistan is bound to disintegrate.”
Above forecast of Quaid-e-Azam was truly proved when in 1971 Pakistan disintegrated, and now still Pakistani nation is still going on [...]



PPP MQM Tamasha in Karachi

By Salman Mugsi • Feb 2nd, 2010 • Category: Politics

Once again Pakistan’s biggest city is in the grip of mysterious murders. Police, rangers and other law enforcement agencies are nowhere to be seen. Just within one week, more than 100 people have been killed. In the last 24 hours, more than 50 people have been killed.
Who is being killed and by whom. It all [...]



Target Killing in Karachi

By Muskan Hina • Feb 2nd, 2010 • Category: Features

We have become tired of hearing from the authorities that Karachi is the lifeblood of Pakistan and its peace will be maintained at every cost, but the thing is that still at large scale, the Karachi target killing is going on at full throttle unabated.
MQM says that land mafia and drug mafia is behind these [...]



MQM Blackmails PPP on Government Jobs

By Salman Mugsi • Jan 28th, 2010 • Category: Politics

As President Asif Ali Zardari is getting weaker day by day and he needs the support of his allies more and more in center and in the provinces, the allies are trying to milk the PPP as much as possible.
Now MQM is forcing PPP government to allot 40% of the government jobs in Sindh to [...]