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By Zubeida Mustafa
WHAT keeps Pakistan afloat? How, despite its seemingly precarious political existence and the gloom and doom spread by the highly politicised media, as well as the horrendous bomb blasts, does the country manage to survive?
Written by Mr. Zahid Malik, Editor-in-Chief Pakistan Observer
Published in Pakistan Observer on 28th December 2009 Read More »Developing phenomenon of White Taliban in the West
Zardari at Garhi Khuda Bakhsh زرداری گڑھی خدا بخش میں
صدر پاکستان جناب آصف زرداری نے بے نظیر بھٹو شہید کی دوسری برسی کے موقع پر ایک دل چسپ تقریر کی۔
اس دوران ان کا اعتماد بہتر، اور انداز بہت جارحانہ تھا۔
اس تقریر میں زرداری نے احتیاط کا دامن کئی بار چھوڑ دیا، اور حکومت دشمن عناصر کو سخت تنبیہہ کی۔Read More »Zardari at Garhi Khuda Bakhsh زرداری گڑھی خدا بخش میں
After the departure of Ayub Khan I have never seen any scheme introduced or any law enacted with real honesty and intent for the benefit of the common man and for the nation as a whole. Since 1971-72 whatever has been done I saw it being done in the name of and for the sake of “common man” raising the slogans “Awam kay muffad main” but actually all this was done ensuring that a hidden invisible door forthe vested interests remains open. Read More »SYMPATHIES ALWAYS FOR CRIMINALS-Muhammad Javed
Rana Ikram Rabbani introduces himself I have always been a vocal advocate of normal relations between neighbors based on the principle of peaceful-coexistence and relations based on tolerance, peace and love between different religious and… Read More »Rana Ikram Rabbani-Introduction
Why Islamabad resists going after Quetta shura
LAHORE: No matter how many troops President Obama orders to Afghanistan, victory will also require a surge across the Pakistan border that the Taliban and al Qaeda-but not American GIs-cross easily. The President knows this, but he hasn’t made Pakistan’s help any easier to obtain by signalling his intention to draw down a mere year after his surge troops arrive in Afghanistan.Read More »Obama, Pakistan and Mullah Omar
Ayaz Amir
Lampooning presidents, prime ministers and politicians is the very stuff, indeed the soul, of journalism. There is no such thing as positive journalism, a notion put about, mostly in a whining manner, by government information departments. Journalism is at its most responsible when it is explosive and incendiary, shaking people out of accepted modes of thinking. It is at its most irresponsible when it follows the dotted line.
Read More »Islamabad diary: A cause of national confusion?
Ahmad Rafay Alam
A few days ago, I found myself in a room full of people who agreed that Karachi “has been turned around” and now “looks like a reasonably functioning city.” This impression had been brought about someone’s recent visit to the same city where gun-battles had claimed 28 lives in July, where news of the death of Rehman Dakait brought out tens of thousands of mourners to offer his namaz-e-janaza, where over half its people live in slums and where water is now critically short in supply. A strange opinion to hold, given the circumstances, I thought, and wondered what criterion must be applied for someone to completely overlook the real issues that face a city.Read More »A city ‘turned around’?
* Flagship Investments Ltd’s holdings, Sharif family residence valued at over Rs 2.7 billion * Company owns real estate in high-end locations LAHORE: The Sharifs own property worth more than 20 million pounds (Rs 2.7… Read More »Sharifs own property worth billions in London
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