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A President and A Prime Minister for Sale!
By Omar Javaid, Sr. Editor, Critic Magazine Sounds familiar? I won’t bias you rather will try to be as neutral as possible. I know a few names pop in your mind when you read the title. Top of which would be … cough, cough … this makes me cough while typing, not strange though! Since…
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Murree Peace Statement: Aman Ittehad
Aman Ittehad: insaf, adm tashadud aur barabari ki jiddojehad Representatives of 35 organizations from across Pakistan belonging to trade unions, media, youth organizations, minority groups, NGOs, academia, business, and the legal profession, gathered in Murree from 9 to 11 October to deliberate over the current situation in the country and to discuss pathways to peace.…
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Laidback Show – Episode 03 – UpShorts
The third edition of The Laidback Show – UpShorts, by Fasial Kapadia and Awab Alvi. Enjoy the discussion but would love some feedback on how we can improve this casual discussion podcast Show Notes after the jump
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Indian bloggers welcome the Pakistani delegation to TEDIndia
Indian technology blogger TechGirl welcomes the Pakistani delegation to TEDIndia. This can possibly be a great opportunity to spread the message of friendship across the digital divide. Here’s to TechGirl, may this meetup in November be the start of a long lasting friendship between the two nations
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Peoples Resistance: Protest against Army Brutality
Location: Karachi Press Club Date: Tuesday 7th October, 2009 Time: 5:00 PM The People’s Resistance strongly condemns the Army brutality captured on video recently as illegal and despicable behaviour on the basis of violation of the understanding of our human rights and our laws. In no sense can this strong condemnation be understood as support…
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Kerry-Luger Bill: Signing a Political Death Warrant
Kashmir policy, acquiring nuclear asset(s) and Army has been sensitive issues for Pakistan since its birth in 1947. Though there can be no disagreements that Army rule could not bring change by ridding corruption and opening flood gates of economic progress by sacking popular leaderships in their four trials in 1958, 1969, 1977, and 1999…
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Video on Human Rights Abuses by Pakistan Army leads to Censorship
For the past few days a specific gut wrenching video has been making its way around the Pakistani web-sphere which shows a Pakistani Army Major conducting an interrogation of two people suspected of harboring Talibans. During the Question and Answer session the Major steps back and orders his crew to ruthlessly beat the person punching,…
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Guftago – In Conversation
Another must watch podcast by a good group of friends Faisal Qureshi and his wife Reema Siddiqui along with Faisal Khan and his wife Anika Khan, sit casually in Faisal Qureshi’s den to have a 45 minute in-camera conversation. This is definitely a must watch podcast – Guftago – Pilot
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The Laidback Show Episode 2
The second episode of our podcast / videocast with Faisal Kapadia and myself has been released. This comes as the second episode after our first attempt to podcasting when the unnamed NoNam show which was initially uploaded, we now have a name > The Laidback Show. Check out the Episode 2 (there is definitely room…
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Who’s actually running Pakistan? The Americans or Pakistanis?
Ammar Faheem lashes out without mincing any words US Ambassador Patterson MUST be EXPELLED which comes in response to Anne Patterson’s statment regarding the Quetta Shura yesterday “You cannot tolerate vipers in your bosom without getting bitten our concern is whether Pakistan really controls its territory. There are people who do not threaten Pakistan but…
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A Grave Error: Letter to the Editor in Response to ones own Obituary
On 27th September Dr. Farhat Taj in the article titled “The Taliban and Salarzais” reported that Malik Munsaib Khan had died in an attack to say “The same day they informed me on telephone that Malik Munasib Khan, the spokesman of the Salarzai lashkar, had been killed. They held the ISI responsible for his killing”…
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Pakistani media’s corporate interests > Abdullah Saad
Abdullah Saad talks about Pakistani media’s corporate interests and our threat perceptions, discussing how the media reacted to Saad Khan’s tragic death, Annie Pattersons secret (but leaked) letter to Rehman Malik and more importantly (for me) the hot topic ie Blackwater-Xe. Abdullah Saad: LINK
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Justice Rukhsana Ahmed > Renewed Faith in Judiciary
Justice Rukhsana Ahmed is one of the latest set of ten appointees to the Sindh High Court, Jehan Ara, the super-energetic President of P@SHA, wrote a detailed post about the big day she had with Justice Ms. Rukhsana Ahmed in her new chambers.
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The Brouhaha over Blackwater continues
Sunday’s Dawn has a report on the presence of Blackwater in Pakistan > there seems to be an apparent blanket of denial of their presence but tell tale signs continue to emerge that something is definitely afoot Questions that must be asked of ourselves, (a) Can we trust our present leadership to tell us the…
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While our Country starves, Senators spend Rs. 22 Million as travelling expenses in FOUR Months
Senate secretariat has spent a staggering amount of over Rs22 million in just four months, traveling / jet-setting around the world from April to July 2009 on 13 foreign trips made by senators to participate in various international events. The Chairman Senate Farooq H Naik said these expenses were incurred on air tickets, foreign exchange,…
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