Category: Politics
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Geo Tv Blackballed because of Imran Khan
Last night GEO.tv was scheduled to re-broadcast the Jawab Deh where Iktikhar (also known as ‘Fitna’) the show host was interviewing Imran Khan and his tell-all attack on MQM. Reports of the blocked channel came first from Gulshan and it was soon verified by GEO where a number of areas across the country were blocked.…
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I Support, Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa
The Government of Pakistan (read Pakistan Army) has been trying its best to suppress the release of the book titled Military Inc.: Inside Pakistan’s Military Economy which was written by Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa. Since Friday, the proposed release date the military has pulled all stops to prevent the release of this all-exposing book going to…
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Military Inc.: Banned in Pakistan
The latest book Military Inc.: Inside Pakistan’s Military Economy, written by Ayesha Siddiqa is a tell all narration of the highly profitable company called The Pakistan Army. The book estimates the militarys share of the economy at over 200 billion rupees, besides owning 11.58 percent of all state land. Military Inc. was due to go…
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Q & A with Salman Ahmad
Here is a Question and Answer response by Salman Ahmad in light of his recent email where he shared his ongoing problems with the MQM reign of terror Q1: You recently stated in the press that MQM leader Altaf Hussain has threatened you on a number of occasions. Have you ever taken a legal action…
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Expatriate Pakistanis react with Passion
Ever since the Massacre of May 12th in Karachi which sadly claimed the lives of over 50 people, the world is abuzz with astonished outrage. The people living in Pakistan naturally go through hell with the day-to-day incidents but what people often tend to forget are the emotions of those Pakistanis living outside Pakistan who…
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PEMRA Clamps Down on TV Channels
The saga continues, the battle between the bureaucracy and the electronic media has now come to an interesting juncture. PEMRA (Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority) has issued guidelines to all TV channels curtailing their freedom to cover LIVE events hence forcing them to seek prior clearance from PEMRA. The trojan horse has been camouflaged under…
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Salman Ahmed speaks out against MQM
An open letter by Salman Ahmed, a famous Pakistani singer, to all Pakistanis Altaf Hussain and his murdering accomplices deserve to be tried for their crimes against Pakistan. I’ve been threatened by them on many occasions in the past 15 years. One particular time was when I refused to perform at Altaf’s marriage function in…
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Eyewitness: Karachi, May 12, 2007
A narrative of the events of “Black Saturday and the “stop-the-blame-game argument Guest Post by Beena Sarwar article also published in The News on 27th May “Here in Karachi, we avoid name calling and finger pointing due to fear of having our knees drilled ON May 12, 2007, Karachi witnessed orchestrated mayhem. Such carnage is…
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Pakistanis, Be a Part of the Change
The political situation in Pakistan is literally in an uproar these days and its getting worse, its time that Patriotic Pakistanis have to step up and be a part of the change, we cannot continue to live behind closed doors and hope that ‘someone‘ would come along to change Pakistan for the better – No…
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Mr. President, Please Shut Up!!!
These are the very words that would come to ones mind if any of you were unfortunate enough to watch General Pervaiz Musharraf address the opening ceremony of Dawn News TV. It was a classy event and Hameed Haroon sat helplessly (and fuming) on the side watching the President ramble aimlessly on and on about…
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MQM threatens 20 journalists
Reporters Without Borders has issued a press release suggesting that Muhajir Rabita Council an integral part of the MQM leadership has threatened some 20 odd journalists for their reporting activities related to the 5/12 Massacre. The list of Journalists include Zafar Abbass, Mazhar Abbas, Shaheen Sehbai, and Dr. Shahid Masood. Ever since the fateful day…
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The 5/12 Massacre
For the past few days I have been writing quite openly on Karachi Metroblogs about the carnage served up by on the fateful day of 12th May 2007. The more I logically try to reason what happened I continue to fall deeper into the corner of laying the blame squarely on Musharraf who used MQM…
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A TT to my head & a press pass in my Pocket
This article was published on Karachi Metroblogs here, I republish it on my own blog so as to preserve this article for my own blog For those who did not have a glance at today’s Daily Times, Urooj Zia (UZi) our fellow Karachi Metroblogger has written an article titled ‘A TT to my head and…
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5/12
This article was published on Karachi Metroblogs here, I republish it on my own blog so as to preserve this article for my own blog In the recent past, specially after 9/11, it has become a routine to disambiguate specific dates with numbers. I feel yesterday, 12th May 2007 was such a date on which…
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Karachi Witnesses an Organized Massacre
This article was published on Karachi Metroblogs here, I republish it on my own blog so as to preserve this article for my own blog It is indeed sad to see the situation in Karachi get progressively worse. It can be easily said that all this was bound to happen since MQM was destined to…