Author: Dr. Awab Alvi

  • ISF will Challenge the appointment of Director HEC in Islamabad High Court

    Insaf Students Federation [ISF] has decided to challenge the appointment of new Executive Director Higher Education Commission before the Islamabad High Court. Farrukh Habib the President “The government has political motives behind this appointment as it wanted to control the autonomous commission for its vested political interests, wanting to grab the funds allocated for higher…

  • Jasmin Manzoor Quits SAMAA TV – Blames Builders Mafia

    Jasmin Manzoor quits SAMAA TV – blaming the Builders Mafia for preventing her from doing a show on the Hindu community by challenging with a stay order but she also goes on to allege that Ameen Lakhani sent thugs to her office and threatening her office staff. Express Tribune reports on the Hindu Temple debate…

  • Nawaz Claims Credit for Zardari’s tenure

    Etch this picture vividly into your memory Credit Sabir Nazar – via Facebook

  • Sharif’s Billions in Assets abroad and No Money Laundering?

    Hassan Nisar tweeted: How can any sensible logical honest person believe that the Sharifs have billions of dollars of assets abroad & did not do money laundering — Courtesy I Support PTI – via Facebook

  • Next Elections the Battle in Punjab is between PTI vs PML & not PPP

    PML has been chest thumping a logic that if you vote for PTI you actually help elect PPP into power – a major fallacy being played up in the desperate greed to be in power The results of By-Election clearly conclude that PPP+PML-Q alliance will be nowhere in the next general elections and its now…

  • NADRA Lists should be used to form Electoral Rolls

    Still amazed at why cant a simple solution be thought out for a free and transparent election – Simply using NADRA’s database will save tremendous resources – ECP should extract Voters LAST REGISTERED ADDRESS and it can become his voting address. If there is a mismatch on the last known address of the person it…

  • Imran Khan – Still treated & respected as the son of the nation

    – via Facebook

  • Pakistan at the helm of Terrorism Index

    Thank you PPP, PML, MQM, ANP, JUI-F for your disastrous 5 years of governance – via Facebook

  • Silence over Holy-alliance of PPP with Qadri’s supporters

    PPP partners with Mumtaz Qadri’s Supporters PML partners with ASWJ (Anti-Shia) Both parties are delicately showing their true colors but the media chooses to look the other way LINK: Silence over Holy-alliance of PPP with Qadri’s supporters | LUBP – shared on Facebook by Awab Alvi

  • PPP & Sunni Ittehad : PML-N & ASWJ

    While PPP decided to sleep in-bed with Sunni Ittehad Council PML-N joins the gimmickry with an election alliance with the Banned outfit Alhe-Sunnat-Wali-Jammat (ASWJ) to contest a by-election in Sialkot ASWJ to support PML-N  – shared on Facebook by Awab Alvi

  • Nawaz Sharif’s 10% Disaster Economics

    Nawaz Sharif is so clueless about solving the economic situation in Pakistan that during an exclusive interview with Hamid Mir a few weeks back he proposes PML’s economic plan to hinge on a flat 10% tax rate.  It may honestly look tempting but the gravity of the statement further exposes how clueless PML-N is about…

  • Supreme Court Petition for Peace & De-weaponization of Karachi

    The following petition was sent to the Supreme Court on 1st November 2012 for Peace & De-Weaponization of Karachi – The petition was spearheaded by Mr. Naeem Sadiq with nine other petitioners and I personally am honored that he asked me to sign this petition – Considering the lawlessness in Karachi the pressure needs to be…

  • What is an Error-Free voter list?

    Pakistan is rapidly heading for another electoral disaster. It continues to retain its archaic and unnecessary electoral list-making process that can do no better than what it did last time. While it ended up manufacturing 37 million fake voters in 2008, the results will not be much different this time around. There are at least…

  • Taliban – A Holistic View

    It has become even more critical that we clearly understand TALIBAN. There is alot of confusion out there and that was the main objective behind attacking Malala. Again i am not an expert but this is what i think: there are 3 broad categories of Taliban. Migrants: Taliban who came from Afghanistan when the US…

  • Imran’s Jehad for Peace

    In the battle of Badr there was a boy of fifteen ‘Umayr who stood amongst the ranks of the believers. His heart was full of fear as he stood amongst the taller, broader, stronger and more experienced soldiers. But this fear was not of war nor of death. It was the fear of being asked…