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What We are Giving to IMF in lieu of $7billion

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Nov 18th, 2008 • Category: Politics

International Monetary Fund (IMF) has so graciously approved a massive loan for the Pakistan and the first couple of installments would be given to the Pakistani authorities without delay, which will provide a prompt relief to the economy. Pakistan already is under the burden of $46.6 billion, and without any thought about paying back this […]



Qadirpur Gas Field on Sale

By Sameer Shaharyar • Nov 14th, 2008 • Category: Politics

I don’t know who does this, but there is someone who comes up bright ideas every now and then in every government. Like he came up with the notion of privatizing the Pakistan Steel Mills, and now we are hearing about the selling out of Qadirpur gas field.
Pakistan has got very few, even rare organizations […]



Where is My Eidi ?

By Amna Gilani • Oct 2nd, 2008 • Category: Politics

Suffocation in the shops, smell of heavy sweat, hot weather and extreme humidity are not the reason that people are finding it hard to head towards the markets in the first Eid of Summer after almost 36 years, rather it’s the security situation in the country, which has put the whole country in uncertainty and […]



For Ebrat of Everyone

By M. Waqas (MPA) • Sep 22nd, 2008 • Category: Misc



The Women: Next Door

By A Khokar • Sep 10th, 2008 • Category: Misc

Amir Tahri, a columnist gives us an insight that what future holds for women in our neighbouring country Iran. Iran where even Shirin Ebadi: The Nobelist faces threats for backing women’s rights.
AHMADINEJAD’S NEW ENEMY: WOMEN.
IN one of his last sermons before his death, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini warned of “three threats” to his vision of […]



Petro-Euro Vs Petro-Dollar - Good Eye opener

By Ausaf Ahmad • Sep 9th, 2008 • Category: Misc

Why the Dollar Bubble is about to Burst? IRAN HAS REALLY DONE IT…more deadlier than the nuclear.. The Voice (issue 264 -) ran an article beginning, ‘ Iran has really gone and done it now. No, they haven’t sent their first nuclear sub in to the Persian Gulf . They are about to launch […]



We Have Broken it, So We Ought to Fix it

By A Khokar • Jul 21st, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Although we may be right in blaming US for the prevalent mayhem and anarchy in Pakistan but this was surely Pakistan’s own choice that they see themselves now gutted in this hell fire. It is their own created inferno which is eating it up and is turning this heavenly country’s western area into rubble and […]



Petroleum Prices : Where They are Heading?

By Altaf Khan • Jul 21st, 2008 • Category: Politics

At least I don’t have no idea and my limited imagination fails to predict the ultimate price of petroleum products where it will become stable for a while.
The new bogeyman of the town, Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra), has once again given the jolt of the year to the nation, just after a fiasco […]



There is victory in sight for George W Bush?

By A Khokar • Jul 16th, 2008 • Category: Misc, Politics

Where as purported presence of Al-Qaeda among Taliban on Pak-Afghan border has so far served as a tool and a lynch pin of Neocons dream hegemonic policy in Middle East and Central Asia. US has virtually been showing its craze to depict Al Qaeda as an omnipotent force, an imaginary, invisible enemy in disguise to […]



D-8 Summit

By The Pakistani Spectator • Jul 16th, 2008 • Category: Politics

THE D-8 eight Muslim countries decided to embark on joint ventures to boost food production and endorsed a 10-year blueprint to expand trade cooperation.
 
In a joint statement, the D-8 summit warned that the shortage and rising prices of food posed a serious threat to socio-economic stability. The summit agreed to take […]