Judicial vs executive

So it begins again. We have all been waiting for the Chief Justice since he came back on gilded wings to do something to provide relief for the population of Pakistan and two days ago he fired his first salvo. The government in denial as usual chose to impose a new “carbon” tax on our…

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The ever changing MQM

By A.K.Chisti MQM is one political party which had been instrumental in not only bringing upon a change but had been in a constant state of introspection throughout her relatively short political years. It was obviously founded as a student reactionary force back in the ever rebellious late 1970’s and later transformed herself into a…

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This is my leader

This is a man who is a patriot, a leader in the truest sense of the word not infallible but straight talking and with the heart of a person who has fought, bled as a soldier of this country and then as its president. We forced him to resign with tears in his eyes, shame…

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Ye islam nahi hay

We have all been brought up by our elders to not question men of our faith, some of us were given the leverage to do so and thus developed a higher level of understanding as to what Islam is and what it actually entails. Others however were taught dogmatically and rigidly and thus for them…

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Hoisting the red flag amid green shadows

By : Farooq Tariq The historic and victorious lawyer’s movement was a rainbow of various political colour. One could see all sorts of political trends trying to give their colors to lawyer’s movement. There were greens like Jamaat-I Islami and Muslim League Nawaz, reds like Labour Party and National Workers Party. There was tri-color Pakistan…

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Operation restarts in swat

Finally after much hue and cry raised by the entire countries moderate and civil structure as well as some timely concern shown by political parties the army has woken up and started an operation against the militants in the lower dir valley area of Swat. This operation was started yesterday and immediately helicopter gunships and…

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An open letter to the president of pakistan

By Barrister Ali.K Chisti My Dear President, I hope you are well..? I see you on the television every day with a wide smile and Mash’Allah you look younger than ever each passing day. My Dear President, I will come straight to the point, I am concerned as much as you are about the SWAT…

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Protest @ press club, Karachi

Hurridly organized, loosly knit but touching, the protest done today at the press club in Karachi was a thrill to attend for me. It started at about 3pm with a press conference inside the press club which funnily enough I had to talk my way into as I did not have a bonafide “journaalist” card,…

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