Puranay Kaalum – Aik Eff Aai Aar Ki Qeemat
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Years back, I sent an article titled, “Nationalization of social and moral values in Pakistan,” to a newspaper. It did publish but with entirely a different title. The new title, “A state that took over society” aptly described what that article was about. Now when I want to write about the destruction of our cities […]
The cities and suburbs of Pakistan are bursting with millions of teeming citizens, old and young, men and women and children alike. They earn their livelihood by small selling of goods or services which unimaginably involves hard labor with meager income. Or they are employed by private entrepreneurs who have to incessantly struggle against the […]
Here is the media release: New book – “Pakistan’s Democratic Impasse” published The book indicts politicians as the main culprit for failing the state of Pakistan The book falsifies the myth of blaming the Pakistan Army for the ills Pakistanis facing Author argues constitution authorizes politicians to rule, not the Army Lahore April 8, 2014: […]
Here is the Introduction by the authors: The recipe for growth is well-known. Most economists would agree that lower taxes and less regulation can encourage entrepreneurship and job creation. Yet, many governments are unwilling to introduce such reforms. An important reason is concern over a voter backlash. Jean-Claude Juncker, a likely candidate for the EU-presidency […]
The talk of alcohol, drugs and call girls in the parliament lodges, Islamabad, is not new; Jamshed Dasti only repeated it. http://www.thenews.com.pk/article-139500-Dasti-claims-to-recover-bag-full-of-liquor-bottles-from-parliament-lodges- Everybody knows the moral standing of these parliamentarians, these law-makers, who are the worst law-breakers also. But the hullabaloo is just misplaced. No one seems to addressing the issue: that, there are ordinary […]
Here is one post from Shahid Mehmood’s blog: http://shershahsuree.blogspot.com I was recently forwarded Asad Umar’s two part article on the subject of privatization (which appeared in the NEWS) of public sector enterprises (PSE’s). It is a continuation of the debate that has been generated in lieu of the government’s decision to privatize a specific percentage of […]
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The News in its print edition on December 23 reported the following: Bakery boy absolves CM’s relative, cops of torture LAHORE: A judicial magistrate of
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Anyone can see that there is not one Pakistan. After more than 60 years the two Pakistans can clearly be demarcated. One is for the
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Secularism is an old song that keeps reverberating in the liberal, enlightened, progressive, leftist, and socialist circles of Pakistan. Earlier this January news from Bangladeshthat
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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
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How a police officer’s highhandedness in torturing someone special earns him the wrath of the State Aristocracy is evident from the following news: Defence-A SHO
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* The world needs to be changed into a world for individual persons, not for this or that genus of this or that community or
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In a previous post, Riyasti Ashrafiya ka Pakistan – 1, a news item was highlighted. It was published in an Urdu daily Mashriq Peshawar on
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What has gone wrong with the US – erstwhile champion of individual freedom, world-renowned political cartoonist, Patrick Chappatte explains very well in this cartoon! This
Few days back (on November 3), I finished reading a rare and old book. If one wants to see a glimpse of the old world, read
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See the following report and be in the know what things are occupying the Prime Minister of Pakistan, no matter they are illegal or not,
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When creative spirit of a nation is arrested from within, it is as vulnerable to external insinuations as is to internal machinations, and can never
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Last night (November 2), I finished reading another book on Stoicism. It was first published in 1908 by Archibald Constable & Co., London. It belongs
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Day before yesterday (Oct 28) I finished reading, Stoicism, by Rev. W. W. Capes. It was published in 1880, as part of a series –
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Is it for the Supreme Court to see what’s happening to the citizens in Balochistan and Karachi? Or there is none to heed? It seems
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The street intellect as a rule and the scholarly intellect generally live and thrive on the staple food of Conspiracy Theories in Pakistan. Nothing is
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The states, or political elites, throughout the world, are successful: they have come to control almost all the aspects of individual citizen’s life in most
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Pakistan is a victim of political parties whose motto is: politics of the mafia, by the mafia, for the mafia! Every moment and every day
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On October 12, a letter appeared in The Frontier Post. Here is its text: “Hurdles of Pakistani bloggers Why Pakistani bloggers cannot enjoy journalists’ legal
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