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Let’s wipe out the PPP: On Daily Times’ editorial on Shahbaz Taseer’s kidnapping


Let’s wipe out the PPP: On Daily Times’ editorial on Shahbaz Taseer’s kidnapping

Related post: PSF activists support Mumtaz Qadri? Poor reporting by the Daily Times: A plea to Shaheed Taseer’s family – by Shahid Khakwani There are a number of key problems in Daily Times' Editorial on Shahbaz Taseer's kidnapping: 1. It completely wipes out the PPP as a persistent victim of the deep state and its proxies in Jihad [...]

PSF activists support Mumtaz Qadri? Poor reporting by the Daily Times: A plea to Shaheed Taseer’s family – by Shahid Khakwani


PSF activists support Mumtaz Qadri? Poor reporting by the Daily Times: A plea to Shaheed Taseer’s family – by Shahid Khakwani

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 [...]

Bramdagh Bugti says Daily Times fabricated his “bogus interview”


Bramdagh Bugti says Daily Times fabricated his “bogus interview”

Cross-posted from The Baloch Hal Quetta: A spokesman for Baloch nationalist leader and the head of the Baloch Republican Party (BRP)  Nawabzada Bramdagh Bugti has termed two recent interviews published in a Lahore-based English daily as fake, fabricated and bogus. Sher Mohammad Bugti, a spokesman for the Baloch leader, told The Baloch [...]

Schizophrenia on women’s rights – by Mahmood Adeel


Schizophrenia on women’s rights – by Mahmood Adeel

Two diametrically opposed articles on the status of women’s rights in this country appear in today’s news. They should both be read together, hopefully resulting in an open and honest discussion of one of the great . For all the Ghairat Brigade’s moaning and wailing about issues of foreign policy, where are they when our national honor is [...]

An open letter to Hamid Mir from a common citizen – by Marvi Sirmed


An open letter to Hamid Mir from a common citizen – by Marvi Sirmed

Islamabad May 17, 2010 Dear Mr. Hamid Mir, Much has been said and written about your audio tape since last two days. I have also read your rebuttal, below email and another one that got "leaked" - as is claimed by one of the blogs, in which you're (claimed to be) clarifying your position and Asian Tigers' position. I do understand how [...]

Hamid Mir Saga: Follow the sequence – by Ahmed Iqbalabadi


Hamid Mir Saga: Follow the sequence – by Ahmed Iqbalabadi

In the last four days, Pakistan has mainly been in the news over the internet censorship of facebook, youtube and other websites where sacrilegious content is being broadcast against the Holy Prophet (Peace be upon Him).  However, LUBP has not forgotten a matter that has brought great shame to Pakistan’s educated class and the mainstream [...]

Hamid Mir backtracked – by Farhad Jarral


Hamid Mir backtracked – by Farhad Jarral

Earlier, Hamid Mir had decided to send some legal notices for his alleged defamation: the first notice to a leading newspaper of Pakistan, Daily Times, which is owned by Salman Taseer, and the second notice a leading political blog of Critical Supporters of PPP, i.e., Let Us Build Pakistan. It is to inform that Team LUBP has not received any [...]

Hamid Mir threatens ‘Let Us Build Pakistan’


Hamid Mir threatens ‘Let Us Build Pakistan’

This image is taken from Hamid Mir's official fan page of Capital Talk. Once again Hamid Mir has targeted the LUBP along with other media publications including Daily Times and Dunya TV. Today, this is what Mir wrote on his Facebook fan page: 'We are taking legal action against Daily Times(owned by Salman Taseer) and some US based blogs [...]

The Rightist Judicio-Politico Mafia – by Anas Muhammad


The Rightist Judicio-Politico Mafia – by Anas Muhammad

 Saturday February 13 – The Chief Justice of Pakistan defied Presidential orders through a suo moto action against the Presidential notification for appointment of certain judges. Chief Justice, in a rare nightly emergency session, formed a three members bench that suspended two recommendations for judges’ appointment by the President. The [...]