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Posts Tagged ‘Ramadan’

Eid Day- When Allah Blessings are Bountiful

By A Khokar • Sep 21st, 2009 • Category: Features

Eid-ul-Fitr is linked with the Holy month of Ramadan. It signifies the end of the month of fasting and is celebrated on the first day of the Lunar month- Shawwal on Muslim Calendar.
 
Eid-ul-Fitr is a unique festival held in the Muslim world. This festival has no connection with any historical event nor is it related [...]



Pakistan food stampede kills atleast 20

By Bilal Sulehri • Sep 15th, 2009 • Category: Politics

I cant understand what has happened to our country. People are losing lives to get food! It should not happen in Pakistan, its not an African country hit by years of famine and civil-war!
At least 20 women and children have been killed in a stampede to get free flour in Karachi, dozens more were injured [...]



What a Devil We Are !

By Taufeeq Butt • Aug 30th, 2009 • Category: Features


Olpers Qawali by Atif Aslam : Download and Enjoy Here

By Mohsin Sehgal • Aug 23rd, 2009 • Category: Entertainment

With the start of Ramadan, the olpers have yet again come up with a fine advertorial which is a qawali by Atif Aslam and other other singers. It’s video and audior are superb and its a must see.
Click here to watch.



The Ramadan is here!

By Mian Usman • Aug 23rd, 2009 • Category: Misc, Worth A Second Look

Greetings to you all on the start of the Holy month of Ramadan. It’s the month of testing of faith, steadfastness, patience, discipline, humanity, love for fellow beings and above all revival of true Islamic spirit that should have been there in us through out the year. It’s a reminder to us all who remained [...]



Ramzan 2009

By Guest Blogger • Aug 22nd, 2009 • Category: Misc

More than one-fourth of all human beings now living on earth are about to enter a new phase of their yearly calendar: Ramazan. Coming fourteen hundred and thirty years after the momentous event of Hijra of the Prophet, upon him be peace and blessings of Allah, Ramazan will bring with it a night better than [...]



Ramadan and Hoarding

By Haris Hashmi • Aug 16th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Ramadan is the month of fasting and hoarding. Market mafias, wholesalers, retailers and shop-keepers; everyone chucks extra profit from the faithful in all the edible items. One gets to know that Ramadan is approaching well before its moon sighting as the prices of everything surge to a whooping measure. In total disregard to what Ramadan [...]



Crackdown on Sugar Hoarders : Geo Shahbaz Geo

By Rohail Butt • Aug 15th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Besides of establishing a Ramadan package, the Punjab government of Shahbaz Sharif has come hard on the hoarders of sugar. The government has issued orders to take punitive actions against those sugar millers and traders, who have not been releasing the stock despite their commitment, causing a massive hike in the commodity price nationwide.
Not only [...]



Nail polish and Ramadan

By Johann • Oct 5th, 2008 • Category: Misc

A young bangladeshi girl from UK was visiting her granny’s house in Dacca during this ramadan.Her granny told her that she must not break fast with Nail polish on. She found it funny and as her granny insisited; she wrote a letter to editor asking for advice. Immediately response came from [...]



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 [...]