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Khadim-e-Ala, Don’t Come to Murree Please

By Ali Yar Khan • Nov 26th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Whenever Khadim-e-Ala Punjab, Mian Shahbaz Sharif get tired of ruling Lahore, he pays a mandatory visit to the hill station of Murree, and the people of the Murree and adjoining areas suffer. When Shahbaz Sharif comes, he comes with a huge contingent of provincial ministers and member of parliaments, secretaries and the whole of district […]



UN Reluctant to Probe Benazir Assassination

By Ali Yar Khan • Nov 5th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Just after more than one month, one year will get completed since the two-time prime minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in the city where her father was sent to gallows by a dictator. When the Benazir got slain all the fingers pointed towards the then dictator General Musharraf, and Asif Ali Zardari also […]



Pervaiz Elahi, Hamid Gul, Ejaz Shah Really Tried to Kill Benazir?

By Salman Mugsi • Oct 18th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Former ISI chief Lt Gen (retd) Hameed Gul, Former chief of the Intelligence Bureau (IB), Brigadier (R) Syed Ejaz Shah, and former chief minister of Punjab Chaudhary Pervez Ellahi were named by Benazir Bhutto behind the Karsaz Blasts in Karachi in which she escaped barely. At that time the name of former chief minister […]



Zardari may be Assassinated . . . . !

By Farid Masood • Oct 9th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Yes, he may be assassinated like late Benazir Bhutto. President Asif Ali Zardari has himself time and again stated that the forces involved in Ms Bhutto’s Assassination may take his life also. He, in his one of the statements said that he is not afraid of dying but he does not want to die too […]



Shrine Board Triggers Kashmir’s Independence

By Ali Yar Khan • Sep 30th, 2008 • Category: Politics

The recent trouble was triggered by a Jammu state government plan announced in June to donate land to a Hindu shrine trust in the Kashmir valley. That has angered the Muslims throughout the valley and in order to punish the Muslims, a total economic blockage of the valley is in progress, and though India is […]



Where is UN Probe in Benazir’s Killing?

By Rohail Butt • Aug 15th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Almost six months have passed since the Pakistan Peoples’ Party is at the helm of the affairs, while enjoying the perks of power, but still there is no formal investigation underway either from the United Nations or from any of the Pakistani security forces, and nothing is being done from the folds of PPP in […]



What Did Khalid Shahanshah Know?

By Ali Yar Khan • Jul 24th, 2008 • Category: Politics

The horrendous slaying of Benazir Bhutto, the two-time Prime Minister of this hapless country, last year in Rawalpindi is still an unsolved mystery, and her own successors are pulling every cosmetic rabbit out of their grinning bags and still there is no initiations of any United Nations investigations. One also wonders as what wonder, the […]



Website of Awami Muslim League by Sheikh Rashid

By Amna Gilani • Jun 16th, 2008 • Category: Entertainment

I volunteer to create a website for the Sheikh Rashid Ahmad’s Awami Muslim League (AML), oh yes I do. While Sheikh Rashid is busy like hell in somehow making a mark and organizing his party in the city of Lahore, people from all over the world are just itching to join his party, and nobody […]



Last Chance for All of Them

By The Pakistani Spectator • Jun 13th, 2008 • Category: Politics

There is a rampant talk in the media about the last chance for the politicians in Pakistan to prove their mettle and to appease the aspirations of the people. There is a debate going on that for the last time, people have given votes to the tried and tested politicians, and if this time these […]



Shahbaz Shahbaz Shahbaz

By Rohail Butt • Jun 8th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

After eight years, seven months and twenty six days, Punjab’s eight crore people have once again got their favorite chief minister back. Shahbaz Sharif is the true tiger of the Punjab, he has proved it before, and he is all poised to do it again. Shahbaz Sharif has been in the Punjab Assembly since 1990 […]