“It’s not Muslims, but Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) activists who planned and executed the bomb blasts at Malegaon in 2006, on the Samjhauta Express in 2007, in Ajmer Sharif in 2007 and Mecca Masjid in 2007,” confessed Swami Aseemanand, the main accused of 2007 Samjhauta Express blast in front of a magistrate at a Central [...]
Maryam Sakeenah ‘What a great man, a liberal, a proponent of culture, youth, minorities and womens rights, an enemy of extremism… rest in peace, governor’ read a friend’s facebook status after the assassination of Punjab governor Salman Taseer. On the other side is the sentiment of celebration in the streets of my city. There are [...]
There is a line dropped by vested interests that Pakistan is a failed state. Many, within Pakistan, too, have picked up the line and quote it as a base for Pakistan bashing. By no account can Pakistan be deemed as a failed state. No, Pakistan is not a failed state. Pakistan is a state that [...]
Pakistan is a poor country but its legislators are rich. This is what comes out of the PILDAT report on the assets declared by our parliamentarians. Most of the parliamentarians are in the category of the very rich and super rich by Pakistani standards. With total assets of Rs. 3.2 billion Kohistan’s Mahboobullah Jan of [...]
The discussions regarding revolution are serving as a slogan for political parties these days. Altaf Hussain, who is talking about revolution, is the one who has served General Musharraf in the past. If he thinks that either the Iranian or French Revolution can occur in a country like Pakistan, then he is certainly mistaken. The [...]
12 September witnessed a telethon primarily conducted by ex president and former army chief Pervez Musharraf at a private channel to raise the funds for flood affected people. Four hours duration work created more than 25 crores Pakistani rupees more than five crores expected to be pledge from the friends and family of former President [...]
Different reports in British press sniffs an imminent coup de tat in Pakistan, and looking at the melodramatic performance of Govt of the day at flood camps, and gauging from the polls and the perceptions the Govt is badly failing in a befitting recovery, relief and repatriation of flood victims. All at sundry are fearful [...]
While referring to Pakistan, Afghan President Hamid Karzai reiterated calls on Washington on August 26, this year to shift its military focus to “terror” hideouts outside his troubled country. He elaborated that the US-led war “will not be won unless terrorists’ havens are eliminated.” Before this, in July, Karzai suggested NATO operation inside Pakistan. Without [...]
Press Trust of India (PTI) has released a story titled ‘Pakistan’s youth giving up Islam?’, which has been carried in all Indian dailies. It appears that India’s ‘arsenal’ for media onslaught on Pakistan has been exhausted; it has therefore taken recourse to the Facebook group of Pakistan’s agnostics and atheists that number around one hundred [...]
Over the previous months, Kashmir has increasingly become a subject of international attention. Comity of nations is no longer ignoring the Indian brutalities, and the ensuing loss of innocent lives. Recently, Amnesty International has once again urged the Indian government to allow UN’s special representatives to visit occupied Kashmir for making a spot study of [...]
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