Teeth Maestro

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  • It Is All What I Have

    It is all what I have, My soul and my existence Imprinted and embedded In these lines, drawn and felt In this star and crescent Long are those trails and hidden Stories of my ancestors Some in me and some in graves In its lap, intoxicated in its slumber My old remains, my ancestors Years…

  • The dictator is the one animal who needs to be caged – Z. A. Bhutto

    Guest Post by Silence The dictator is the one animal who needs to be caged; He betrays his profession and his constitution. He betrays the people and destroys human values. He destroys culture. He binds the youth. He makes the structure collapse. He rules by fluke and freak. He is the scourge and the ogre.…

  • A business proposal for Pervaiz Musharraf

    Guest Post by Rana Raheel Babar Mr. Pervaiz Musharraf The President of Islamic Republic of Pakistan Pakistan Re: A Business Proposal Dear Mr. Pervaiz Musharraf, It is such an undesirable pleasure to have you (General Purvez s/o Busharraf) as our forced president. Mr. President, I truly consider it as an outcome of your sincere and…

  • An open letter to Begum Pervez Musharraf and wives of army officers

    Guest Post by Silence Dear Begum Pervez Musharaff, I recognize that every one of us is responsible for our own acts, as such, being the wife of a Military Dictator and a former General of Pakistan Army, I wound not hold you responsible for his acts, however I will request you to consider following facts…

  • Standing up for your Country

    Guest Blog by Samad Khurram Published in The News on 11th July 2008 Continuous air strikes on Pakistani territory and repeated intrusions of Pakistani airspace by US-led coalition forces in stark violation of international norms and customs have troubled Pakistanis across the country. These are very similar to US interventions in the political sphere of…

  • The rat may come out of the bag…

    You get different versions here in London… some very interesting, no matter how sad they are in nature… A few month back, before the elections, a textile tycoon, a friend, a very ‘educated’ man from Lahore, sat with me at Leister Square’s ‘All Bar One’ and cursed both Benazir and Nawaz. ‘They should both be…

  • Shedding Crocodile Tears over Inflation

    The News Tuesday, June 24, 2008 by Aqil Sajjad The PPP and its supporters argue that the “common man” cares more about inflation than the restoration of the judiciary. They insist that forcing the present government’s hand on the judges’ issue would create political instability, threaten the democratic process and make it difficult for the…

  • Pakistan; The Ongoing “Soft Revolution” towards a “Welfare State” – Part II

    Guest Post by Silence Part I of this series can be read here The first Cultural Revolution in history of sub-continent was the Sufi movement, from the 13th century A.D. Sufism increasingly attracted the creative social and intellectual energies within the community and with the passage of time it acquired new dimensions and began to…

  • Pakistan; The Ongoing “Soft Revolution” towards a “Welfare State” – Part I

    Guest Post by Silence A welfare state is a government that provides for the welfare, or the well-being, of its citizens completely. Such a government is involved in citizens’ lives at every level. It provides for physical, material, and social needs rather than the people providing for their own. The purpose of the welfare state…

  • Is Dr. A Q Khan a thief?

    Guest Post by Zubair Ahmed After reading Mr. Shakir Husain’s “Our Heroes” published in The News on 11th June 2008, I immediately dismissed one of my own hypotheses that said: ‘only’ senior military officers, given a chance to speak on high technology; reveal an uncanny ability to churn out opinionated nonsense. Mr. Shakir fears “Essentially…

  • Long March and… a new generation learns to Mobilize

    Burhan and Riaz Ahmed International Socailists of Pakistan History made an entire cross section of civil society of Pakistan learned and transformed from its own struggle against rules from above. Long march ended today at 6 am with thousands of agitators sending a strong message to those in corridor of power that they know how…

  • Defeating the mind set

    Guest Blog by Amjad Malik People of Pakistan are elated by coming nearer to the fall of General Pervez Musharraf and considering it a beginning of a new era where rule of law, constitutionalism and justice prevails. They consider this as an end of the status quo, dictatorship, and rule of establishment, however they are…

  • Open Letter to ‘Maj-Gen’ ‘Retd’ Rashid Quraishi – NAB Diaries

    Rashid Quraishi, This is with reference to my application to my Local MP regarding assistance for justice and the subsequent communication between you and a representative of the British Parliament. My case has been projected by the independent media on several platforms and the entire facts are also available under ‘The NAB Diaries’ at www.teeth.com.pk…

  • You deserve what you get

    For sometime I contemplated if this article may best be simply linked too in the collection of Decidous Links [mini-links] we have running on the blog but then it would not have opened an opportunity for comments and reactions and I suspect this heart felt article by Ghazala Minallah might evoke some comments from our…

  • Where is our parliament in all this?

    Guest Blog by Amjad Malik Economy is nose diving in Pakistan and people with load shedding, wheat and oil crisis are forced to take law in their own hands and we saw people burning the robbers in Karachi and indecisiveness is breeding law and order crisis, apathy and decline where any thing can happen as…