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Don Altaf has finally embarked on the deadliest game of the recent times. In short he first threatened to resign and then following the usual methods reversed the decision. This essentially was meant to project to the world a fake sense of popularity. He is not popular. He is bitterly feared in Karachi. You do [...]
Now that the entire world is raising serious questions about MQM’s terrorist credentials, under the leadership of its benighted head it has resorted to dissembling. The first step in this disinformation campaign was the claim that those who were gutted alive in Karachi were not lawyers but workers of the MQM. Now that’s loads [...]
O blood sucking parasite, o burden on the conscience of the civilized world, You have puppeteered enough doom and destruction in the country. It is tragic that you still roam without any accountability. You have repeatedly been offered chance to redeem your acts but you have proven time and again the vile nature of [...]
Believe me, I am not a prophet of doom or gloom. But it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand that our country is in grave peril. If my memory serves me right my country was not like this. We never had fear of any suicide bomber, any angry mob crushing us to death or [...]
The lawyers movement is feeling a bit cheated. Talk is in the air of a minus one deal in which Justice Chaudhry would have to retire soon. Rumors have a field day and media is projecting that the PML-N is feeling uncomfortable with the prospects. Presidency’s supporters naturally are feeling elated that finally [...]
Today a curious incident happened in the Sindh Assembly. A former Chief Minister of Sindh belonging Pakistan Muslim League - Q was slapped with a shoe by his alleged former employee in public and on camera. Muttahida Qaumi Movement immediately boycotted the assembly session using it as a bargain chip to obtain more ministries and [...]
It is astounding how we mortals often take our own selves more seriously than what we are. A clear example is the struggle going on within Pakistan. Perhaps it is because we take up a principle and weave our lives and often our businesses around it. Once that principle is out of vogue or has [...]
Is the Pakistan Democratic Alliance crumbling? Is the government formation in provinces never going to succeed? Will the presidency (the new East India Company?) finally succeed in its conspiracies and intrigues? Will the judges never be restored? Is MQM a Trojan horse?
I do not intend to add anything new to the debate today. It is the 29th death anniversary of Zulfi Bhutto and the questions that I had raised in one of my past columns have not been answered yet. That is why I am posting that column here that was originally published in the [...]
Something eerie seems to be happening since the national elections. We seem to have to have forgotten all virtues of patience learnt during the time of the authoritarian regime. After their win the victors came together in Bhurban to remind us that they mean business and signed a joint declaration vowing to restore the judiciary [...]
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