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Posts Tagged ‘shahbaz sharif’

Shahbaz on Suspension Spree : Right Approach

By Ali Yar Khan • Sep 27th, 2008 • Category: Politics

The “hud-harami” and slothful attitude of Punjab’s communication and road works department has gone worse over the years, and now the situation has reached where all the roads from Rahim Yar Khan to Attock have turned into mud paths, and the road construction work on the roads is going on forever.
Shahbaz Sharif, the pride of […]



Where is Political Maturity?

By Sameer Shaharyar • Sep 25th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Well before the elections of 18th February, even before the gruesome assassination of two-time Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, there were very strong and tangible signs of political maturity in Pakistan, and that is what forced a military dictator to hold the elections in the country after an iron rule, and that is without any […]



Wajahat Force

By Ali Yar Khan • Sep 23rd, 2008 • Category: Politics

You can’t miss Wajahat Force, when you start knowing the basic things about the Gujrat, and in the last five or so years this has expanded into a full blown mafia gripping the whole of Gujrat city and many villages surrounding it and it’s reach has spread to other cities, and it has got it’s […]



When the hungery will increase…

By fzuberi • Sep 6th, 2008 • Category: Misc

the streets are weary
of my touch
my finger trails the future of my needs
i see no end to my misery
Its really dampening
to see who is honking for the truth
to see the murderers of justice
call for justice
To listen to every problem
answered by the yells of sacrifice (of their leaders)
People dying on the roads
don’t have a clue
To the […]



Tyranny of President Zardari

By Sameer Shaharyar • Sep 6th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

President of Pakistan with unlimited powers, Co-chairman of Pakistan People’s Party, Commander in chief of the armed forces, Manipulator of Prime Minister. Moreover, Asif Ali Zardari has got his loyal and trusted cronies at all the top posts of the country, and he virtually controls all the institutions in bureaucracy, judiciary, parliament and has got […]



PPP Goes to Faryal Talpur

By Rohail Butt • Sep 5th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Less than handful of people in Pakistan, let alone within the cadres of Pakistan People’s Party would have even heard the name of Faryal Talpur, sister of Asif Ali Zardari, the widow of Benazir Bhutto. She was never very much active in the politics and she never even seen on the national horizon. Though the […]



From the Cell to the Presidency

By fzuberi • Sep 5th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Do we not know the personality of the fellow nominated for the highest post of government?
Is the fact hidden that he was involved in the Alleged killing of a sitting member of the provincial assembly and the brother of his wife the Former Prime Minister of Pakistan?
It was him that has been numerous times called […]



He can also become President

By Altaf Khan • Sep 4th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Last night when I was itching in the queue outside Cinepax, Rawalpindi to get tickets to watch an American flick, I overheard a black-ticketer confiding merrily to one of his buddy that now he too is eligible for the president and a day would come soon, though he is afraid that he not a graduate […]



Coming of Age

By Maham Javed • Sep 4th, 2008 • Category: Politics

This is the 21st century; the century of civilization. We have long since stepped past the barbarians, the stone age. The mushrooming, rapid advancements of the modern era and its technologies has made our life a living heaven- and yet not.
Computers, mobile phones and many other transitory advancements have opened doors for another: the most […]



Time to Abandon Antediluvian Patriarchs

By Ali Yar Khan • Sep 4th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Years after years, government after governments, Martial laws after martial laws, the people of Pakistan have seen with agony and disappointment the failures, corruptions and prevaricated promises of their politicos and tyrants and now they have abondoned almost all of them, including the religious parties.
Pakistani people are long questioning their actual say in the state […]