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It was interesting to read the following article by Pakistan's former Ambassador to Krgyzstan, Mr. Nazar Abbas in the current issue of the Friday Times. It is a matter of surprise that on one hand our establishment just doesn't stop talking about the concept of "Brotherly relations with Islamic Ummah" but steps are not taken to maintain the [...]

نہ چھپ کے مار اے قاتل، میں تیری فرار میں زندہ میں تیری راہ میں  حائل، میں  تیری تلوار میں زندہ یہ جسم  و  روح  کا  تعلق، تم  سمجھو  تو  مٹا  پاؤ تو میرے خون کا سائل، میں  تیرے  وار  میں  [...]

نوحہ مسیحائی اگلے روز پنجاب اسمبلی کے سامنے جس بیدردی سے نوجوان ڈاکٹروں کو پیٹا گیا ہے اسنے "بلڈ پریشر" وزیر اعلی اور اسکی لولی لنگڑی طرز حکمرانی کا پردہ فاش کر دیا ہے- پرایویٹ ہسپتال اور حکومت [...]

The Pakistan Peoples Party is always under attack whenever we hear of some "leaders" dissenting from the line of the party. Our right wing media starts to call them the "real voice of the PPP" ignoring the fact that just before their dissenting voice, they were the same Jiyalas or part of a "Zardari Tola" as per their terminology. We have seen [...]

"It was a straight ball and Razzaq did not have a very good technique to handle that ball". Those were the exclusive comments by one of the "Emotional Mosquito" outside my room this morning, which forced me to come out of my bed and say something very interesting to him but then I just forgot about it. I should hit that mindset that is actually [...]

In Punjabi we have a jolly good legend by the title "Satan's Finger." It narrates the story of a pious old fellow who had a habit of cursing the Satan after every prayer that he offered. He continued this routine five times a day, seven day a week and for years and years after which the reaction came. One day as he left the mosque he encountered [...]

Source: The Express Tribune There are two broad types of decisions – a decision that yields good results or a decision that goes bad. When a decision yields good results, the management reinforces it strategies to ensure continuation. In case of a decision that doesn’t yield the right results, corrective action is taken. There is, [...]

Related article: Pakistan’s lord and his flies: On SCP’s contempt notices to Taj Haider and Sharjeel Memon Contempt of court notices have been  issued against former senator and general secretary of the PPP’s Sindh chapter, Taj Haider, and the party’s provincial media coordinator, MPA Sharjeel Inam Memon, under Article 204 of the [...]

Related article: PPP’s Media Policy and the Code of Conduct – by Ahmad Khan Lodhi In last couple of months, PPP has wasted many opportunities to bury Media and PML-N in the same grave. The blunders committed by the PML-N were of very serious nature. PPP was removed from Punjab coalition Killing of Salmaan Taseer Raymond Davis [...]

The atmosphere in Pakistan is charged with emotions: fury at the release of Raymond Davis, the U. S contractor who killed two Pakistanis in cold blood. The government, especially the President, is coming under firing for “doing” this. A rally by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf was organized in a few hours. All kinds and shades of experts are [...]

The human history unveils many of the civilizations which left their homelands only because of the scarcity of water.  The East India Company inaugurated the modern irrigation system in Sub Continent and proved their abilities to utilize the local resources with their management skills. In 1947, after the division of Sub Continent, Pakistan got [...]

Onora O’Neill in her 2002 Reith lectures said, ‘breach of trust has been around since the garden of Eden’. But the ever deepening crisis of loss of trust that we as a nation have plunged into, appears to have entered a totally new era. Trust is the greatest casualty in our country. We have never found our governments to be trustworthy. We [...]

Source: http://tribune.com.pk/story/132249/becoming-a-part-of-the-solution-how-to-sell-our-country/ On my recent visit to California, I was asked what in my opinion was the biggest problem facing Pakistan these days?” “There isn’t just one” I replied. “Already under a lot of stress due to deficits, our country is facing compounded [...]

Relevant Reading: Differentiating between Propaganda and Facts I – Exports show biggest growth in history Differentiating between Propaganda and Facts II – Remittances touch USD 6.96 billion, up 20% If one reads the newspapers, watches the news, listens to our right wing media anchors and follows the proceedings in the courts, it seems that [...]

Matiullah Jan of Dawn News has a few weeks ago started his new program called "Apna Gareban" that looks to question many journalistic actions of his community. He has done important programs in the last few weeks including the way journalists approach the Press Information Department for advertisements, reporters at court proceedings and [...]

In which country names, passport numbers, visa type and validity of visas of people are accessible to “journalists”? It happens only in Pakistan. Our very dearest, Ansar Abbasi, is one such journalist who has access to all sort of information who publishes it in his "report". We suspect that such information is fed to him by the spy agencies [...]

Many people have been committing the sin of saying that the Supreme Court and Lahore High Court have been providing support to the PML-N government in Punjab by allowing it to continue on a stay order. The CJP has been pricked by this sin for sometime and decided to take the bull by its horns on Friday, March 11, 2011, by asking the Advocate [...]

If one reads the newspapers, watches the news, listens to our right wing media anchors and follows the proceedings in the courts, it seems that Pakistan is sliding on fast pacing downhill slope. On the other hand, there is consistency of healthy financial data coming in which is good enough to confuse the pessimists into a conclave. On March 10, [...]

If one reads the newspapers, watches the news, listens to our right wing media anchors and follows the proceedings in the courts, it seems that Pakistan is sliding on fast pacing downhill slope. On the other hand, there is consistency of healthy data coming in. The latest was yesterday when the Federal Bureau of Statistics released export figures [...]

What a great day for the real revolutionaries of Pakistan. Chaudhry Nisar’s petition against the appointment of Justice Deedar Shah was accepted and the Supreme Court ruling the appointment as illegal. The bench that delivered the victory for Chaudhry Nisar and PML-N included Justices Javed Iqbal, Raja Fayyaz Ahmed and Asif Saeed Khan Khosa. [...]

  The government of civilians released an under house-arrest employee of the government and restored him to his position of chief justice. That restoration through an executive order is credited to the pressure exerted by the Mulla-Media-Military Alliance and Civil Society syndicate. Aitzaz Ahsan during a 22 hours long march announced on [...]

Published: Express Tribune, February 28, 2011 From the very outset, let me be very clear that corruption, kickbacks, facilitation money etc are not condonable; however, being realistic, it cannot be done away so easily through either a law or simply pursuing individuals. If one takes a rational look at things, financial corruption can be [...]

To call the PML-N and its leadership as confused and to a certain extent mindless would be an understatement. Pakistan’s real revolutionary, Khadim-e-Aala Punjab, Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif on Monday demanded that all stakeholders including Chief of Army Staff and Chief Justice of Pakistan be invited to discuss strategies for steering the [...]

It has increasingly been noticed that whenever there is a setback, a certain class of people purporting to be liberals whom we cover as Fake Civil Society or FCS as lovingly call, begin blaming the victim. When Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto was assassinated, the victim i.e. the PPP and her husband was blamed to be the killer. All sorts of [...]

  The government of Pakistan is desperately looking for a Christian priest to perform the funeral rites of the slain minorities minister, the late Mr. Shahbaz Bhatti. The government has requested several bishops, cardinals, fathers and even the pope, however, all the Christian clergy believes that Shahbaz Bhatti was a blasphemer, hence, he [...]

Related articles: Shahbaz Bhatti assassinated: Thank you, Deep State! LUBP Archive on Shahbaz Bhatti It is a day which one wishes it never came. A wish that if time can go back and mistakes can be corrected, if bloodshed could be avoided and lives can be spared. Every passing day like this is increasing doubts on the future of our Pakistan, [...]

In this very good investigation, Ali K Chishti has shattered the myth being created by our media, especially the Jang Group that the Sheraton Bombing of French Engineers was orchestrated by Asif Zardari. It is a very interesting revelation about the establishment of an Al-Qaeda base in Karachi and how they went about doing their work. Another [...]

Related: LUBP Archive on Shahbaz Bhatti Federal Minister for minority affairs, Shahbaz Bhatti has been killed in the I-8/3 area of Islamabad by two unidentified gunmen who shot at him and fled the scene on a car. After Benazir Bhutto and Salmaan Taseer, the Deep State and its Jihadi subsidiaries have been successful in eliminating yet [...]

Relevant Reading: PTV CBA writes to Supreme Court Money Talks: Jang group to beg American support LUBP Archive on Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman If one wonders why all this hoo-haa by Geo Super on the airing of World Cup matches is going on and the role played by our apex judiciary, it is safe to presume that all other matters in the country have [...]

A picture is worth more than thousand words as well as "millions" of people who think the judges and especially the Chief Justice of Pakistan are austere and want to do something for the nation. We want to thank Adv. Naseem Chauhan for taking a snap of a beautiful car belonging to the most amazing people of Pakistan being used the most [...]

This is a must see for all those who believe that Mian Nawaz Sharif, Khadim-e-Aala Shahbaz Sharif and their family's lifestyle, wealth and current status through possible corruption. Hussain Nawaz Sharif's three companies, Que Holdings Limited, Quint Paddington Ltd and Flagship Investments are discussed in the program by host Mubashar Lucman on [...]

Current James Bond, 007, Daniel Craig is under immense threat from superman, super spy, triplicate agent, Raymond Davis as the producers of the very popular series, the Broccoli Family and EON Productions are contemplating the current blonde Bond with a super and real life agent. Incidentally, Raymond Davis is well built, has a better height and [...]

Since that fateful evening when the Federal cabinet was reshuffled, upon becoming a former Foreign Minister, Shah Mahmood Qureshi started criticizing the PPP leadership citing his stance on the Raymond Davis issue as his defense. As what he was pleading was selling effectively in our media, he misled his handful of mureeds holding PPP flags to [...]

The aim of this post is to highlight the possible financial impact of the matter of Raymond Davis’ immunity and the worsening of relations between the USA and Pakistan. A leading Investment Bank of Pakistan, InvestCap has come up with their report which is being posted below. Though we have not sought their permission on the same, we [...]

It was shocking to read about Peoples Student Federation (PSF), the student wing of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) presenting flowers to Mumtaz Qadri, the assassin of Shaheed Salmaan Taseer in Daily Times owned by Shaheed Governor (now being run by Taseer’s family). As the PSF has been holding countrywide protests on assassination of Governor [...]

  The summarized version of this research report is published in the Social Science and Policy Bulletin LUMS Winter 2011. This research project was to examine national policy discussion on poverty and social policy in Pakistan. This study has largely overseen the conjunction of class and caste as a dimension of social marginalisation and [...]

In the world of business and investment perception plays a vital role in the feasibility of an investment or a business initiative. It is so important a phenomenon that it can transform any given event or change in business environment into a threat or an opportunity. On micro level venture capitalists along with other key indicators also study [...]

Related articles: LUBP Archive on Raymond Davis Between March 2007 and March 2009, Justice Tariq Mehmood along with Ali Ahmed Kurd, Asma Jahangir and Athar Minallah plus a few others were the darlings of our right wing media members like Hamid Mir, Ansar Abbasi, Talat Hussain, Kamran Khan, Kashif Abbasi, Moeed Pirzada, Shahid Masood etc. They [...]

Related articles: LUBP Archive on Justice Khalil Ramday In a latest news relayed by Dawn News and Geo News at 9.30 pm PST, a full court reference was held under the stewardship of CJP, Iftikhar Chaudhry that has "recommended through unanimous resolution" extension in the ad-hoc tenure of Justice Khalil ur Rehman Ramday and Justice Rehmat [...]

Is this a sign of changing times? Has the west begun to see the man’s motive? This seems to be the most scathing commentary on Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry in the last many months. This appeared in the current edition of The Economist. An overactive judiciary might undermine a fragile democracy. (AI) Pakistan's populist [...]