Author: Dr Khalil Ahmad

(Calvin Coolidge, 1872-1933)

It was in January 2007 that a letter appeared in some newspapers. Its writer was a former cricketer. He was part of the national cricket team which toured India in 1952-1953. He also received an award from the president for his services to the game of cricket. He had a heart-rending story to relate: An engineer by profession, he spent a good part of his life in Middle East. On coming back to Pakistan, besides his family dwelling, he built a house in DHA, Lahore, with an intention to give it on rent to meet their daily living expenses out of the rental income.

But as it happens, the tenant did not pay the rent for many years and he had to knock at the doors of the courts to seek justice. After five years’ tiring litigation,

Hence, I think I should give only the links to such news items and of course from such newspapers which I happen to see.

[Roznama Express, March 31, 2013]

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[Roznama Express, April

[Barry Goldwater, American Politician and Senator, 1909-1998]

  

It is said that every government is a perfect target for criticism. But interestingly this time in Pakistan though the Pakistan Peoples Party government is under heavy fire and of course it must be and even if outside government it should remain so; however, what should be the real target is Pakistan Muslim League (N). This article is an attempt at highlighting that point.

As for PPP’s politics both before and after February 18 elections and through the events that unfolded within the last 7 months, it is established beyond doubt that PPP is as usual on a collusion course with the elitist set-up, and is just continuing the policies of

Gaza City: Police in Hamas-ruled Gaza have started grabbing young men with long or gel-styled spiky hair off the streets, bundling them into jeeps, mocking them and shaving their heads, two of those targeted and a rights group said Sunday. It is the latest sign that they are imposing their strict practices on the population. The crackdown began last week, and two of those targeted told The Associated Press said they were rounded up in separate sweeps in Gaza City included more than two dozen young men. – AP

[The News, April 9, 2013]

See the previous post: Talibanand Hamas – the same ilk? – 1

It’s just a co-incidence that the following article, which probably first time talks of the state of the Rule of Law in Pakistan, was completed on February 10, 2007. I realized the fact later.

This article was carried by The News in its edition of Political Economy on March 18, 2007 with a different title, The State of Misrule. Then, Business Recorder published it in two parts on March 24, and 25, 2007, without

[Nafisa Shah, PPP MNA]

Lately in Pakistan, politics, politicians, political parties and their supporters have become an antithesis of whatever we associate with the name of morality. But the way this truth manifests itself under the present Pakistan Peoples Party government is dangerously alarming.

We know our given world is amoral, and it is we who try to make it morally meaningful. The physical and botanical world is absolutely beyond any moral apprehension. The zoological world shows some crude or not so crude signs of actions which may appear as morally motivated, but sure they are not. Taking care of each other, or of those who

The only reason I read The Express Tribune is that International Herald Tribune comes with it almost free. Just in Rs. 19 one can read both papers.

So, that’s my limitation. I keep an eye how prominently these newspapers place pictures / statements of the Sons and Daughters of politicians. Of course, it’s the prerogative of the administration and the editorial staff of these newspapers how and where they place the pictures / statements of the Sons and Daughters of politicians. But at the same time, as a reader it’s my right to judge what such coverage amounts to and why the Sons and Daughters of politicians are given such prominence. In most of such coverage, I don’t see any news value, relevance, or any such thing, which could justify their placement at such top

Hence, I think I should give only the links to such news items and of course from such newspapers which I happen to see.

[The News, March 23, 2013]

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[The News, March 23, 2013]

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[The News, March 23, 2013]

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[The News, March 23, 2013]

Hence, I think I should give only the links to such news items and of course from such newspapers which I happen to see.

[Roznama Express, March 16, 2013]

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[The News, March 16, 2013]

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[The News,

The verdict of the Supreme Court (Jan 10) re the implementation of its own NRO judgment, in option 6 reads:

“The constitutional balance vis-à-vis trichotomy and separation of powers between the Legislature, the Judiciary and the Executive is very delicately poised and if in a given situation the Executive is bent upon defying a final judicial verdict and is ready to go to any limit in such defiance then instead of insisting upon the Executive to implement the judicial verdict and thereby running the risk of bringing down the constitutional structure itself this Court may exercise judicial restraint and leave the matter to the better judgment of the people of the country or their representatives in the Parliament to appropriately deal with the delinquent. After all the ultimate ownership