Category: Pakistan

  • Zardari’s disappearance from New York Iftar: Found at Geisha Restaurant

    OscarTango, a blog managed by Irshad Saleem from New Jersey has reported some juicy news about Asif Ali Zardari’s sudden disappearance from the Pakistan Embassies Iftar party last Friday in New York city. The President arrived at the event which was hosted by our US Ambassador Hussain Haqqani and on his arrival the President went…

  • Misspelling controversy rehashed: God or Gaad, does it really matter?

    On 11th September the newly elected President Asif Ali Zardari paid homage to the Mausoleum of the Father of the Nation in Karachi, all seemed well until reports started trickling in from various sources of a juicy controversy, where our new President had accidentally misspelled a few words here ‘n there. The message that appeared…

  • Baitullah Mahsood dead

    Its being reported that Baitullah Mahsood may have died – most likely due to kidney failure as he had diabetter and was also suffering from High Blood pressure – News being reported by Dawn News TV UPDATE from CNN – An unnamed Islamabad-based source with connections within the Mehsud tribe in South Waziristan said Mehsud…

  • Pakistan must Ban Umra

    Guest post by Silence from Islamabad Observer Holy Quran gives greater importance to social responsibilities then religious duties of a person. Non-performance of religious duties is a matter between Allah and his creation and can be forgiven by Almighty. However social responsibilities which are between his men are mandatory. The importance of social responsibilities is…

  • American Lawyers conference on rule of law in Pakistan & my brief visit to Europe

    Guest Blog by Amjad Malik I was invited by British Law Society of England to visit Brussels as part of their delegation to attend a rule of law conference on ‘Pakistan and beyond’ organised by American Bar Association (ABA) on 25th September at Hilton (Brussels). Reaching Brussels airport in the morning, I caught a cab…

  • The News reports on PR Seminar with Hamid Mir

    Most militants fighting to avenge military actions’ Published in The News: Monday, September 29, 2008 When Corps Commander Ali Jan Orakzai had deployed troops for the first time in Mohmand Agency in 2003, he gave an impression that the military intended to build schools, hospitals and roads there but he rather launched an operation against…

  • SNL interviews Sarah Palin: Pakistani guys hugged ‘Literally’

    America continues to rip on Asif Ali Zardari’s fling with Sarah Palin a few days back. The famous show Saturday Night Live does a mock of Sarah Palin’s recent interview with CBS News’ Katie Couric. Katie Couric is played by Amy Poehler, while the amazing Tina Fey spins a look-alike of Sarah Palin.

  • Sarah Palin’s: ‘Blonde Moment’ on Pakistan

    Saturday night, while on a stop for cheese-steaks in South Philadelphia, Republican VP Nominee Sarah Palin was questioned by a Temple graduate student about whether the U.S. should cross the border from Afghanistan into Pakistan. Waziristan is blowing up!,” he said. “Yeah it is, and the economy there is blowing up too.” responded Palin, “So…

  • The Politics of Legal Absurdities

    By Faisal Siddiqi published in The News on 28th September 2008 “Do I contradict myself? Very Well, then I contradict myself” — Walt Whitman. How does one explain the contradictions and absurdities in the legal strategy of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) in relation to the restoration of the non-functional/deposed judges? The legal discourse of…

  • Interview with Mangal Bagh

    Guest Blog by Faisal K. from Deadpanthoughts Just who is Mangal Bagh Afridi a khurram agency bus driver turned religious zealot? Or a savvy implant by the ISI into this troubled sector to bring about a liberation of the locals from the foreign Taliban. According to noted history Mangal bagh came into being when Mufti…

  • President Kirdari: McCain & Obama debate on Pakistan

    In roughly 37 odd days from today, The United States of America will be electing its 44th President. Though the elections are limited to only the citizens of United States of America but the outcome of electing the new President has a far greater global impact then being limited to the confines of the borders…

  • German terrorist arrests: Do all Terrorists lead to Pakistan? NO

    Today German federal police seized two suspected terrorists from a Dutch passenger aircraft [KL 1804] at Cologne airport shortly before it was due to take off for Amsterdam. Sources say the two suspects were on their way to join terrorists in Uganda and Pakistan. The suspects were a 23-year-old Somalian identified as Abdirazak and a…

  • HUMOR: Making sense of Asif Zardari & Sarah Palin encounter

    All day yesterday I was thinking – what stupidity of our President to have flirted with the republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin on live TV. The only possible scenario that comes close to some reasoning is as follows Take for example the two most important comments that Asif Ali Zardari made to Sarah Palin…

  • Peoples Resistance: Seminar on Military Action in FATA

    The Peoples Resistance, a civil society group advocating for an independent judiciary and the Supremacy of Law is organizing a Seminar in Karachi on Sunday titled Military Action in FATA; Reality, Myths and Implications. Basically Pakistan is at war and the US is attacking our borders while the Pakistan military is endlessly engaged in a…

  • Makli Necropolis being Bulldozed?

    Makli an archeological conservatory located about 2 hours drive from Karachi near Thatta is reportedly being destroyed by ex-MPA Ghulam Qadir Palijo who is the father of the Sassui Palijo a Sindh Minister Makli Necropolis is one of the largest necropolises in the world, with a diameter of approximately 8 kilometers, Makli Hill is supposed…