Pakistan Ke Mujrim – Siyasi Zawiya
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Terrorism thriving in Pakistan – a cartoon
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Zindagi Se Mahabbat Ki Tareekh
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Two Pakistans
Anyone can see that there is not one Pakistan. After more than 60 years the two Pakistans Pakistan Pakistan Pakistan Pakistan
… Now roam about some areas of the elite Pakistan Pakistans Pakistans
Pakistan Ke Mujrim
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Privatize Gas Fields or Nationalize the CNG Stations!
Ordinary Pakistanis are in the jaws of another government-created crisis: they are facing shortage of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) in their homes as well as in their vehicles. The other side of the coin is the industrial sector suffering a lot due to the shortage and limited supply of the CNG.
… Years back caught in a fever of Greenism and making policies with no insight into the future, the government promoted CNG. When everything has gone Green, it was revealed that there was no more CNG to feed those who shifted to the use of CNG. Rationing started, and another venue for huge corruption opened. It is in addition to the bucks OGRA (Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority) and Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources are making.
In many a city, for most of the time factories are closed, and there are strikes by unemployed factory workers. And there are
Hukoomat Maila
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State Aristocracy’s Pakistan – 4: PM appoints son-in-law as ED World Bank
Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf by, using his discretionary powers, has appointed his son-in-law, Raja Azeemul Haq to the prestigious post of Executive Director of the World Bank Washington. The decision was taken despite resistance shown by Finance Minister Dr. Abdul Hafeez Shaikh, who tried to convince the Premier to change his decision, and told him that his son-in-law is “junior” for such an important position.
… The Economic Affairs Division, the department which was asked to formally move the summary by the Prime Minister’s Principal Secretary Ayub Qazi, also opposed the move. The department suggested that a head-hunting committee or selection board should be formed under the Establishment Division to select a suitable candidate.
Raja Azeem is currently serving in the PM Secretariat as the Additional Secretary on a grade 21 post, a position that a civil servant usually gets after serving for two to three decades. Until a few
Saqaafati Ijaradaari
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Media and the Political Princelings
It is strange, rather outrageous that the same media, which is truly active and activist, as regards many a genuine issue, and in certain cases quite imbued with a fighting spirit, is all set to advance the cause of new young leaders of the political elite classes.
… Ah, the senior and experienced media men, the editors, reporters, op-ed writers, and those who are known as political analysts, (and the established newspapers and TV channels), they are all avidly promoting the Political Princelings. Such as: Bilawal Zardari, Hamza Shahbaz Sharif, Moonis Elahi, Maryam Nawaz Sharif, Fizza Gilani, Aseefa Zardari, and all the progeny of political royalty of Pakistan.
How unfortunate for this nation!
In an older piece of writing, euphemistically titled as “Not an elitist media,” I tried to focus on this elitist role of Pakistani media. Here it is:
Not an elitist media!
If you attack the establishment long enough and hard
Saeed Iqbal Wahlah Ke Liye Dou Nazmen
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The Rise of State Aristocracy in Pakistan – Reviews
This book was published by Alternate Solutions Institute in February this year. Originally it is in Urdu, Pakistan Mein Riyasti Ashrafiya Ka Urooj.
… After the Media Release announcing the publication of the book was made, I sent its copies to prominent newspapers, journals, and eminent intellectuals and writers for the purpose of review. However, no one bothered even to acknowledge the receipt of the book except Dr. Tariq Rahman, who called me and told that he had received the book.
Here are the reviews done:
The day (February 21) the Media Release was issued, I received a call from Business Recorder. Its senior reporter, Mohammad Rafique Goraya asked me to send copies of the book; he wanted to review it in the Business Review. On March 3, a review was published.
In The Express Tribune, on April 23, Ali Salman in his article, Rental Power Saga
Mamlukat-e-Ashrafiya Pakistan – Aik Aur Mubarakbaad
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What’s your qualification, Mr. Prime Minister?
How vacuous the speeches and statements of state dignitaries look!
… But it is for them to inaugurate this or that thing, to make speeches! It seems that’s the only thing they can do, at least in Pakistan! Maybe since they have nothing else to do, they like to be the chief guests at many an occasion so diverse in nature that they would never be able to go to were they not in that position.
The difficult part of this exercise requires them to deliver speeches. However, they are privileged – they have speech-writers. That makes their speeches all Greek to understand as the speeches delivered by their very persons. Almost as a rule they are all, again at least in Pakistan, not as qualified and cultivated, or in short so learned that they would naturally be delivering speeches as the occasions require.
So, as far as their speech-writers are
Saqaafati Munaafqat
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Echoing Lal Masjid
Lal Masjid is once again making headlines. This time it has been resurrected by the Supreme Court. As a result of a hearing of a suo moto case of Lal Masjid and Jamia Hafsa along with a contempt petition filed by Maulana Abdul Aziz, and after the federal police failed to file a satisfactory report on the matter, a three member bench of the Supreme Court, headed by the Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry constituted a one-man judicial commission comprising Justice Shehzad Al-Shaikh, Senior Judge of Federal Shariat Court.
… The judicial commission will ascertain: whether the State had paid compensation to the heirs of killed people; whether the bodies were identified and handed over to their heirs; whether the action has been taken against the people who are responsible for the tragedy; and whether the people who are responsible for the tragedy could be marked with the available evidences and
Aik Aur Zakhmi Saanp
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Do we need secularism?
Secularism is an old song that keeps reverberating in the liberal, enlightened, progressive, leftist, and socialist circles of Pakistan Bangladesh Bangladesh Pakistan
… In Pakistan
But has the Pakistani left built its position philosophically? Or is it just a political ploy? An act of postponing it for a convenient future date
Pakistan Ki Gheyr Ayeeni Tareekh – Aik Mukhtasar Khaaka
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Let us kill each other!
For us living together requires neither love nor mercy, but rules of conduct; everything be it ideology, faith, or any system of thought, comes after that. Anything short of it is at the same time inhuman and anti-human, and is like putting death before life. [K.A.]
… “Hey, Mr., you are different. Your skin color is different. You wear clothes different from mine. Sometimes you use shorts or just rags. You eat things different from mine. You play different games. You sing and dance. You make and watch movies. You have places of nudity and obscenity which you call freedom and enjoyment. You call them art, fashion, and what not.
Your women live like you. They behave like you. They wear dress like yours. Or they wear nothing. They go out like you. They do everything like you do. They sing and dance like you. They sing and dance in