Guest Blog
Old don, or new dawn for Pakistan
Guest Post by Amjad Malik
Asif Ali Zardari with Bakhtawar and Asifa at the Presidents House
Mr. Zardari despite all reservations and his past was duly elected by the Parliament on 6 September 2008 and it is a good sign for democracy that opposition legitimised the show by participating it and later whole heartedly accepting defeat. Congratulations [...]
US agression and ‘Honorable existence’!
Guest Post by Silence from Islamabad Observer
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United States-led NATO forces killed 15 tribesmen, including women and children, in it’s first-ever ground attack inside Pakistani territory on Wednesday. The US forces landed by 3 choppers inside Pakistani village of Musa Neeke in South Waziristan Agency (SWA). The soldiers started indiscriminate firing with their automatic assault [...]
The victory of ‘US lead war against terror’: on US judicial system and human rights
Guest Blog by Silence from Islamabad Observer
A United States court Thursday found American-educated Pakistani doctor Aafia Siddiqi guilty on charges to attack U.S army in Afghanistan as a member of Al-Qaeda, said a statement released from US court. This statement is a declaration of the first defeat of United States judicial system in so-called war [...]
Pakistan: A Revolution, A civil war or a United States sponsored terrorism?
Guest Blog by Silence posted from Islamabad Observer
A perception is systematically being spread in West about Pakistan being a nursery for terrorists and with the recent unrest in Tribal regions of Pakistan, the western media has started a campaign to prove that a ‘civil war’ is going on in Pakistan and some have gone to [...]
Living with Corruption
Guest Post by Silence
Corruption and governance goes together in developing countries, especially the third world where democratic process is influenced by bloodline, money politics, feudalism, intervention of imperialist powers through military and religious exploitations. The process becomes more painful when the society is trying to develop from under develop, while profiled as ‘high risk investment [...]
More on Dr Shahid Masood
Guest Blog by RedKazim
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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 the [...]
The Great Game –The Count Down Begins !
In its December issues Global Research of Canada in a series of articles by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky outlined the American design for the break up of Pakistan. I give below the gist of his remarkably till now accurate analysis(with a few comments of my own),in the hopes that it serves as an eye [...]
Musharraf and Me
Guest Post by Amer Nazir
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I have written many articles on chowk.com and teeth.com.pk – many of them satires aimed at Pervez Musharraf, making fun of him, despising him, humiliating him, hating him – and today, reading Cowasjee’s column in the Dawn (17 Aug)… I almost feel guilty!
But then the emphasis is on [...]
Chasing a dream called Independence
Guest Post by Maham Ali: Initially shared on Facebook
On August 14th, the Pakistani nation celebrated Pakistan’s 61st birthday. Just like any other Independence day, green and white flags were fluttering everywhere, young children- mercifully oblivious to the worst ever crisis Pakistan is going through-were seen running and waving the flags of Pakistan, shouting slogans and [...]
Long Live Pakistan
As they sway in with their voices
Of change, with promises of difference
Nowhere to be seen, the architects
Just simple glances, just the routine
Celebrate we will, our poverty and hunger
As we roll these flags, across our chests
Long live Pakistan, long live our nation
Only hope, only hope and just the prayers
Where voices are heard, in its echoes
Where promises [...]
It Is All What I Have
It is all what I have,
My soul and my existence
Imprinted and embedded
In these lines, drawn and felt
In this star and crescent
Long are those trails and hidden
Stories of my ancestors
Some in me and some in graves
In its lap, intoxicated in its slumber
My old remains, my ancestors
Years it takes to build this oasis
Which we all call home [...]
The dictator is the one animal who needs to be caged - Z. A. Bhutto
Guest Post by Silence
The dictator is the one animal who needs to be caged; He betrays his profession and his constitution. He betrays the people and destroys human values. He destroys culture. He binds the youth. He makes the structure collapse. He rules by fluke and freak. He is the scourge and the ogre. He [...]
A business proposal for Pervaiz Musharraf
Guest Post by Rana Raheel Babar
Mr. Pervaiz Musharraf
The President of Islamic Republic of Pakistan
Pakistan
Re: A Business Proposal
Dear Mr. Pervaiz Musharraf,
It is such an undesirable pleasure to have you (General Purvez s/o Busharraf) as our forced president.
Mr. President, I truly consider it as an outcome of your sincere and untiring efforts for Pakistan that you were [...]
An open letter to Begum Pervez Musharraf and wives of army officers
Guest Post by Silence
Dear Begum Pervez Musharaff,
I recognize that every one of us is responsible for our own acts, as such, being the wife of a Military Dictator and a former General of Pakistan Army, I wound not hold you responsible for his acts, however I will request you to consider following facts on [...]
Standing up for your Country
Guest Blog by Samad Khurram
Published in The News on 11th July 2008
Continuous air strikes on Pakistani territory and repeated intrusions of Pakistani airspace by US-led coalition forces in stark violation of international norms and customs have troubled Pakistanis across the country. These are very similar to US interventions in the political sphere of our country, [...]
