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Journalistic Ethics

By Amin Rehman • Jan 19th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Sometimes you try to constraint yourself  from saying something but some emotions or words compel you to break the shackles and start writing. Cricket is my passion and when I started writing for TPS, I decided that cricket will be my only interest. I wrote about four articles on cricket and as I was browsing [...]



Individual Change

By Qurat-ul-ain Tahir • Dec 27th, 2009 • Category: Misc, Worth A Second Look

In April I came to know that I am going to become an aunt. I had always dreamed for this. I didn’t know how I am going to spend the next 9 months because I was just going nuts to hold that little thing in my hands. I started planning that I would guide my [...]



Suicide Note

By Asim • Oct 25th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Part 1: The Introduction
I am an outsider
A view from inside
I will kill
Myself
And my own
Two angels
All that existed
For me and them
To return
To perfection;
As the sun rises tomorrow!
Part 2: THE GOLDEN BRIDGE
As life walks past,
Upon this golden bridge,
Symbols of our past
In distance, of unity and strength
From promise of slogans
Of “roti, kapra and makan”
To dazzling boards enshrined
Of our [...]



It is only in Pakistan….

By Rana • Oct 11th, 2008 • Category: Politics

My son just started going to school…..I put him in a private english school in gulberg….he is in preschool. The first day I went to drop him, it was crazy. It took me half an hour to drop him….why? because there was one car there to drop one child….and the queue was one km long……..In [...]



Chapper phar k

By M Mirza • Jan 24th, 2008 • Category: Politics (Urdu)


Rule Number one; I am number one

By The Pakistani Spectator • Oct 6th, 2007 • Category: Uncategorized

Guest Blog by Ammar Yasir.
The other day when I stopped my car on the signal I questioned myself;
What the hell I am doing?
Waiting for the green light; the voice in my head told me.
‘But why?’ I asked myself again.
Because it’s the rule! You have to stop on the red light, wait on the orange [...]



Untitled # 2

By The Pakistani Spectator • May 5th, 2007 • Category: Uncategorized

The post ‘Untitled’ was to reflect the impacts of down fall of our economy. Which later initiated the down-fall of our society also.
This post is based on the rich families who do not have to thick about the problems of economy and are not affected by the price hike in Pakistan. These families have the [...]



Our Society

By The Pakistani Spectator • May 3rd, 2007 • Category: Uncategorized

My earlier post was on a very bitter impact of poverty on our society. The comments on that post may have shattered every reader of it and highlighted other insecurities caused by our society other than poverty. I will write another disturbing issue in a day or so. What one can do, these issues are [...]