Tag: UK

  • Guess the Minister who bought a £4.3 million flat in London?

    A week back Rauf Klasra disclosed in his op-ed article in The News of a Federal Minister and a member of PPP Central Executive Committee who has recently sprung himself £4.3 million in cash to buy a six-bedroom flat adjacent to Marble Arch in London. The Minister could barely afford a small apartment during his…

  • Living with the Infidels

    Is a new five-part series of short online video clips of five muslims managing a Bradford [UK] based terror cell. Initially set on a path to martyrdom, these jihadi warriors discover that the West isn’t as bad as it seems. Tempted by the likes of Manchester United, Cable TV and even hot looking girl upstairs,…

  • La Demos Kratos

    I was thinking about the process of selection of Secretary General of UN, and why America, Russia, China, France and UK hold the power to veto any selection? I was thinking about the process through which the Pope, who holds the post important position in the Christian world, gets elected? I was also thinking about…

  • UK Border Agency deports a Pakistani National to Afghanistan

    A young Pakistani born and bred in village Dhok Gangaal, Post Office Adiala, Tehsil & District Rawalpindi, Irfan Faisal son of Multan Khan who was born on 5 December 1978 holding a machine readable Pakistani passport number AC8911731 which was issued by Rawalpindi office on 12 September 2005 and is valid until 11 September 2010…

  • Update: Detained Pakistani Students at Manchester

    Guest Blog by Amjad Malik, barrister representing the detained Pakistani students in Manchester I was asked by Pakistan High Commission to represent 4 out of 10 Pakistani national students currently detained at Manchester prison who are threatened of deportation on national security grounds. They are being deported on grounds of posing threat to national security…

  • Double Jeopardy: Arrested Pak students need Justice & Fairness

    On 8 April 2009, twelve students mostly Pakistani nationals were arrested at Manchester in a suspicion of terrorism related offences in a rushed police operation ‘Pathway’. At the time of writing this article those detained have been off loaded from ‘terror charges’ to national security considerations on behest of Home Office and are handed over…

  • Prince Harry, uses racist terms – Paki & Raghead

    As of yesterday the English media has hurtled itself into yet another royal controversy, where The News of the World videos of Prince Harry, filmed some three back while he was on duty with the Royal Air Force, to have used some unacceptable language. He basically bad mouthed an Asian cadet calling him ‘PAKI‘, ridiculed…

  • Would We Understand Barack Obama?

    Guest Post by Farrah K Raja For quite a while we the visitors on this blog at least have been going through ups and downs and heated debates, we are not afraid to confront our political traumas and to discus religious or social dilemmas. We the Pakistanis are a surprise to ourselves. Largely we contained…

  • My internal conflicts

    Guest Blog by Amer Nazir I hurried towards the train station to catch the 7:51. I was dressed well – in my Canali suit and my Hugo Boss overcoat. At the entrance to the station, I saw two people handing out leaflets. The one on the right was Susan Krammer, the local Liberal Democrat MP.…

  • Some Questions over a Lead Story in The Nation

    Guest Blog by temporal who blogs at Baithak Look at this lead story from the Nation. [also quoted below] – Arrested militants name RAW for funding 680m through Afghan secret agency Where are the credits? Who wrote this story? What are the sources of this story? Is this a scoop or a “leaked” story Does…

  • Self flagellations, a religious practice or child cruelty, a critical analysis

    Guest Post by Amjad Malik Message of Imam Hussain, the grandson of last Prophet of Islam of sacrifice is greater in spirit and is held very dear by billions of Muslims across the globe and the message is remembered zealously during the first month of Islamic calendar Muharram. The Ashura ceremony takes place during this…

  • More on Dr Shahid Masood

    Guest Blog by RedKazim Few people know that the journalistic career of Dr Shahid Masood began at the Karachi-based, pro-MQM Quami Akhbar. In those days Dr Shahid Masood used to practice at Jinnah Hospital. He would regularly visit the office of Qaumi Akhbar situated in a street adjacent to I I Chundrigar Road and urge…

  • 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…