Author: Dr. Awab Alvi
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Shutup Clinton & Gilani the Goof – Out of Bounds
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Pakistan Terrorism Accountability Act in US Congress – to fine Pakistan $2.2 Billion
US Congress presented the Pakistan Terrorism Accountability Bill 2012 – which aims to block all aid to Pakistan – it is as per the new US rhetoric asking Pakistan to “do more” in terms of the War on Terror – It actually means to push the Pakistani Government & the Military to allow for more…
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“Con-Air” Gilani Goofs up at CNN
Watch this last minute of this CNN Interview (4:34) with Prime Minister “Con-Air” Gilani and pray tell me how on earth do we have an idiot like him as our Prime Minister Pay close attention to the very last question – When Gilani was asked that one out of third Pakistanis want to leave the country…
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Dear PM, While You Were Away!
Yousaf Raza Gillani Prime Minister of Pakistan Presidential Suite Churchill Hotel London Sub: While You Were Away Dear Yousaf I pray this finds you in greatest of health and highest of spirits. It felt really good that although your trip must have been packed with various activities, meetings, etc., purely in our national interest, you…
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STAY GRANTED: Constitutional Petition Preventing PTA from Blocking of Websites
On the 17th of April 2012, seven individuals, Dr. Awab Alvi, Sana Saleem, Faisal Kapadia, Nazim Haji, Naeem Sadiq, Noman Quadri and Ayesha Tammy Haq, through their lawyer Haider Waheed with Basil Nabi Malik, petitioned the High Court of Sindh at Karachi challenging the arbitrary and random acts of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) in blocking/ censoring…
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Join the Constitutional Petition for Protecting our Fundamental Rights Online
For quite sometime Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has been blocking websites in Pakistan on the instructions of the Government, or otherwise, other than in accordance with the law. As per the constitution of Pakistan such blocking infringes upon the fundamental rights, of the people of Pakistan as well as that of the owner of the website:…
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Bhutto & Zardari’s Corruption highlighted in Raymond Baker’s book on Dirty Money
In continuation of highlighting the stakeholders of Corruption in Pakistan as reported by Capitalism’s Achilles Heel: Dirty Money and How to Renew the Free-Market System His comments on Nawaz Sharif can be found here, while Benazir Bhutto, Zardari & PPP’s reign on corruption is reproduced below [Credit @Aleem_Ashraf] Corruption and criminality run from the top down,…
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Nawaz Sharif’s Corruption highlighted in Raymond Baker’s book on Dirty Money
Raymond Baker in his book Capitalism’s Achilles Heel: Dirty Money and How to Renew the Free-Market System tried to understand the dynamics of how dirty money works, in his book he elboarately covers the Corruption in Pakistan and takes a swing at both Benazir Bhutto & Nawaz Sharif to say [Credit @Aleem_Ashraf] Corruption and criminality run…
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Karachi goes to Hell, while PML-N plays the role of an Ice Cream Opposition in Load Shedding Strike
Its sad Karachi goes through its third paralyzing strike this week. The blame games between MQM & ANP continue to be played by all the parties involved and the only visible outcome is to oversee the killing of more people of the “other” party – In the meanwhile today Altaf Hussain from London issued a…
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1972 Expulsion Letter for Mr. Asif Ali Zardari from Cadet College Petaro
In 1972 Asif Ali Zadari (also known as Asif Ali Baluch) was expelled from Cadet College Petaro on the grounds of misconduct, his claim to have graduated with a Matric degree in 1972 goes unfounded on the basis of the order issued by the Principal of the college who has categorically expelled Mr. Asif Ali Baluch from the…
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Documenting Samjhota Express
For quite sometime the political grapevine has been brewing with the news that there might be a covert pact between Zardari and Nawaz Sharif to soften their political punches upon each other so as to mildly join forces leading upto the elections and also in the process counter the political rise of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. The…
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One Rupee Project
One Rupee Project Friends !!! Need to ask you to seriously support One Rupee Project to help alleviate poverty – ONE RUPEE at a time, Make this project YOUR OWN spread it like wild-fire. One Rupee a day [Rs. 365 a year] WONT hurt YOU, pledge it and ask others to pledge and give as…
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The One Rupee Project
Can you imagine that if each one of us can donate Rs. 1 each time we do groceries, with enough one rupees collected we can potentially sponsor the education of one child The One Rupee Project is NOT a political party, but a NON-PROFIT movement and a silent revolution to make every Pakistani citizen self-sustainable…
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Mob Beating Thieves in Karachi
I’m seriously saddened to see the mob mentality of people in Karachi beating these crooks &/or snatchers on Shaheed-e-Millat road, but what can you do to bring this mob under control in total lawlessness with no confidence in the state police to take these crooks to task The way this mob was progressing it had…
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The Debackle that Sucked the Marrow of Life
A look into the sordid state of Health Care Delivery Systems in Pakistan; Deaths from the so-called “P.I.C Syndrome”; How it has shaken our trust in the pills we buy and the leaders we “TRY” ! On Dec 15, 2011, 56-year old Abdul Ghaffur (AG) reported to Mayo Hospital Lahore with bleeding from his nose.…