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America About to Attack FATA

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Jun 17th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Afghan President Hamid Karzai is a puppet and the puppet only move when it’s strings are moved by its master, and puppet cannot speak. Whenever puppet speaks, the voice and the words actually belongs to its master. So we need to read the puppet’s threat under the lines, and we need to be alarmed […]



Impotent jehadies

By Johann • Jun 6th, 2008 • Category: Politics

The killing of innocent Pakistanis who earn their living serving the Danish embassy as drivers,clerks etc in retaliation for the Danish cartoons republished reminds me of the days during British raj when it is just so easy to put a cow carcass in a temple or a Pig’s head in a Mosque to […]



Donde Drug Trade Dollars De Afghanistan?

By kami • Jun 4th, 2008 • Category: Politics

As I mentioned in my last article, on February 27, 2008 at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Bob Schieffer, anchor of CBS News’ “Face the Nation,” moderated a seminar where Nicholas Burns, then Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, commented about drug production in Afghanistan:
“It is a country that has seen its […]



Brunt is Ours

By The Pakistani Spectator • Jun 3rd, 2008 • Category: Politics

The recent bomb blast in Islamabad in which more than eight people have died and there are many injured in front of the Danish Embassy in F-6 sector of Islamabad mark the gory shadows of the boogie of terrorism which we seem to be forgetting.
Whether these attacks were the retaliation of the current US attacks […]



Female Education in FATA By Taliban

By Fatima Tassaduq • May 28th, 2008 • Category: Politics

In a very welcome step, the local Talibans have allowed the education of females in the agencies of FATA. There is a misconception here, which needs to be clarified and spread to put the things straight.
Talibans were never against the education for the girls, and they never rejected it. They had Madaris for girls operating […]



Iatrogenic Judicial Knock on Judicature

By Dr Razahaider • Apr 25th, 2008 • Category: Politics

His services in this regards are as and in lieu of the middle man and has multiple outlets and doors to chanellize things at the desire of the desirer.



Acid Throwing on Girls and Boys in Pakistan

By Amna Gilani • Apr 22nd, 2008 • Category: Misc, Worth A Second Look

Hatred makes a human an animal and hatred compels a human to inflict any kind of horror on the fellow human being. The easy and affordable nature of acid has made it the mostly used weapon of revenge. Husbands use it to punish their wives, boys use it to punish their defected girl friends or […]



Ansar Burney (Singh): The Human Rights Minister for Indians

By The Pakistani Spectator • Apr 8th, 2008 • Category: Politics

By Samad Khurram 
Ansar Burney completed his tenure as the first ever caretaker minister of human rights. During his four months stint in the Ministry of Law, Burney worked hard tirelessly for providing a safe passage for suspected and convicted enemies of Pakistan while completely disregarding Pakistanis. He even went a step further by actively […]



Dushman Is Ka Hindustan Kyon Ho

By M. Waqas (MPA) • Mar 9th, 2008 • Category: Politics (Urdu)



Is Care-taker government trespassing?

By Farid Masood • Feb 10th, 2008 • Category: Pakistan Vote'08, Politics

An NGO The Free and Fair Elections Network (Fafen) reported that nazims are supporting certain candidates by urging people to vote in their favour, attending their rallies and allowing use of official cars government buildings.
Care-taker government has also appointed 10 judges in Lahore High Court giving promotions from the lower courts, some judges in Supreme […]