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Limits of Free Speech
2008-04-28 20:00:00 I would like to describe an American perspective on free speech in today?s article. In US legal terms, ?freedom of speech? is actually broader than it sounds, really extending to a freedom that applies to all forms of expression. For example, the US Supreme Court has held that laws forbidding burning the US flag are ... More About: Free , Constitution , Free Speech , Limits , Speech
Deadly Deadlock between PPP and PML-N
2008-04-28 18:31:00 In a last ditch effort to save the coalition, the PML-N entourage in the leadership of Shahbaz Sharif is in the glittering Dubai. PML-N is trying hard to get Asif Ali Zardari to go ahead with the restoration of judges with in the 30 day time period, which is now just two days away. The impasse ... More About: Politics , Deadly , Deadlock
Should We go For Mercy Death?
2008-04-28 18:00:00 A person on death bed was killed by a doctor, known to be an expert in the field, On the request of another person, known to be his wife, in order to ease and relief the pain and difficulty that genuinely can not be understand by any one ,but the patient, how ever , he ... More About: Death , Doctor , Mercy
Interview with Blogger Irving Karchmar
2008-04-28 17:57:00 Irving Karchmar has been a writer, editor and poet for many years, and a darvish of the Nimatullahi Sufi Order since 1992. He is the author of Master of the Jinn, a Sufi novel and mystical adventure tale on the Sufi path of love, and write the popular Darvish blog. http://www.masterofthejinn.com http://darvish.wordpress.com Would you please ... More About: Blogger , Interviews , Interview , Irving
Wild Orchards
2008-04-28 12:00:00 I am the same person Who once existed For your ideology and promise For years In between The two enemies Through the old landscape Haunted and gripped In its old spirit Once it was me, The same person In music and poetry I found myself From travels of past In wild orchards The offerings of youth As the time switched on From present into past As the regions slip into darkness Here I am ... More About: Misc , Wild
April 30 is the Deadline
2008-04-28 09:00:00 Though the session of National Assembly of Pakistan has been prorogued, there is still hope that it could be convened at the notice of 24 hours and the resolution of restoration of judiciary would be presented. When the media hype is so much and when the expectation of the people are so much, it’s bound ... More About: Politics , April , Deadline
Clipping Musharraf or Clipping Iftikhar
2008-04-28 07:00:00 How do exactly we discern the seemingly chaotic political scenery in Islamabad? All the shakers and movers and winner and losers in Islamabad are speaking their own lingos in regard of restoration of judiciary which has all of a sudden become one of the most elusive algorithm of geometry. While the nation oscillate between certainty and ... More About: Politics , Musharraf
Zardari?s ?Personal Reasons? in Dubai
2008-04-28 05:00:00 At this critical juncture in the history of Pakistan when the whole nations stands by over the impasse of judiciary issue, Zardari is off to Dubai for ‘personal reasons.’ Regardless of the ethical, legal and other aspects of the judiciary matters, is that the way to lead the majority party in the country, and is ... More About: Politics , Personal , Reasons
ERRA : Speed it Up
2008-04-28 04:00:00 Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (Erra), after the horrendous earthquake of 2005 has done a good work despite of huge obstacles and dearth of resources. The donations and aid poured in in the initial months, but then it diminished greatly adding to the difficulties of ERRA. But still ERRA has got budget and resources to ... More About: Features , Speed
A Nose of Wax
2008-04-28 01:00:00 It seems that our government now is in a mood to lend an ear to Shakespeare , ?Condemn the fault and not the actor of it.?(Measure for Measure) The news is that the capital punishment i.e., Death Sentence may be changed into Life Imprisonment. As I see it, there seem to be two possibilities for this change. ... More About: Nose
Shujaat for Judiciary : Moses in Pharoah?s Home
2008-04-28 00:00:00 Is that the case that a Moses has born in the home of Pharoah? Those who were at the throat of deposed chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhary are now hinting at presenting a resolution for their restitution of the PPP and PML-N fails to do so. I have a bone to pick with PML-Q’s leadership. Whenever ... More About: Politics , Home , Judiciary
Aitezaz Ahsan : A Lone Ranger
2008-04-27 22:00:00 Barrister Aitezaz Ahsan, once a prominent leader of Pakistan People’s Party and now a dormant PPP leader and more prominently a lawyers’ movement leader and the president of Supreme Court bar association, he finds himself in a quandary. Since 9th March, 2007 Aitezaz Ahsan has been at the forefront of the lawyers movement and he is ... More About: Lone , Ranger
Upraising or Downgrading
2008-04-27 17:00:00 The all time experts and champions of demo curacy and demo crazy have again initiated the same all-time theme to grab, distribute, enjoy, and vanished policy. More About: Politics
Namal Technical College Mianwali Inaugurated
2008-04-27 15:31:00 Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gillani has inaugurated the Namal Technical College near Mianwali. To read more about it click here. More About: Misc , Imran Khan
Taliban Shot and Hang Kidnappers in Mahmand and Orakzai Agency
2008-04-27 14:00:00 Last year, 6-year old Ali was kidnapped from Rawalpindi when he was playing outside his home with other kids. After paying ransom of 2.5 million (after selling their home and everything) his parents received body of their kid from the mountains of Mahmund Agency . Thousands of people get kidnapped each year from NWFP and Punjab and ... More About: Politics , War On Terror , Taliban , Shot
THE wise are instructed by reason
2008-04-27 13:00:00 By Dawar Naqvi (Torrance, CA, USA. ) “THE wise are instructed by reason; men of lesser understanding by observation; fools by mistakes; and beasts by nature.” Thus wrote Marcus Fabius of Rome, otherwise known as Cicero, some 2000 years ago. Under the present circumstances and in the ‘larger national interest’ we must presume that Nawaz Sharif (no ... More About: Features , Reason , Wise
CATIE studies/ Mental Illness
2008-04-27 12:00:00 CATIE ( Clinical Anti-psychotic Trials of Intervention effectiveness) was carried out in America to compare the effectiveness of first generation anti-psychotics like haleperidol etc to second generation atypical medications like perphenazine to newest like Olanzapine etc. The drug MNCs use advertisements, psychiatrists, even Federal Drug administration officials to propagate the efficacy ... More About: Mental , Studies , Misc , Mental Illness , Illness
Fazlur Rehman?s Chicanery
2008-04-27 12:00:00 Fazlur Rehman , chief of Jamiat Ulema Islam-F is once again animatedly active in pursuing the agenda of establishment and after playing a successful role in facilitating the 17th amendment and creating rifts in APDM during the PML-Q rule under Musharraf; he is the best dark horse of Musharraf. His new task assigned to him directly by ... More About: Politics
Transfers at large
2008-04-27 10:00:00 Change in the government has its consequences. Just when everything is in a topsy-turvy the government decided to add more to it. To that effect are the transfers of the government officials from different departments. It is yet unknown as to who the face behind these mass transfers. Presumably, the transfer of a single government servant ... More About: Transfers , Large
Fouad Farhan, Saudi Blogger Released
2008-04-27 09:35:00 A Saudi blogger detained without charge for more than four months after expressing pro-reform opinions has been released, a colleague said on Saturday. Fouad Farhan was detained in early December after running an online campaign over 10 men arrested since February 2007 on suspicion of financing militant groups, but whose supporters say they are being punished ... More About: Blogger , Released
A Constitutional Package to get rid of Justice once and for all
2008-04-27 01:00:00 “A tamed judiciary suiting the Presidency and the PPP-led government is being tailored to give the shock of their lives to those who simplistically took the Murree Declaration seriously and trusted the words of the top political leaders.” - Ansar Abbasi What we dont realise is what we are in for. An elected government, people’s representatives. People ... More About: Politics , Justice , Package , Constitutional
Namal University Mianwali by Imran Khan
2008-04-26 20:33:00 One may disagree with Imran Khan on his political views, and one may sling mud on him over his playboy status of yesteryears, or one may rebuke him over his family issues, but one cannot in his right mind could negate the service Imran Khan has done to this nation in the form of Shaukat ... More About: University
Ghazala Gola Go-Kart in Balochistan
2008-04-26 18:00:00 In the biggest cabinet of all time of Balochistan Assembly, many ministers are relative of either each other are of chief minister Nawab Raisani or of governer Mugsi. But there are few who have genuinely comes from a middle class background and Begum Ghazala Gola is one of them. Mrs.Ghazala Gola Begum is the wife of ... More About: Misc , Kart
Judges Restoration : Nawaz Sharif?s Personal Vendetta
2008-04-26 17:00:00 Though Pakistan People’s Party is objectively, pragmatically and sagaciously trying to harness the independence of judiciary in Pakistan, PML-N which revolves around the personality of Nawaz Sharif is just trying to equalize their scores with President General (r) Pervez Musharraf by restoring the judges and especially Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhary. Nawaz Sharif and his close aides like ... More About: Politics , Personal , Democracy , Judges , Equality
Harbhajan Singh and Shoaib Akhtar
2008-04-26 15:34:00 Both Harbhajan Singh and Shoaib Akhtar seems to be similar in the sense that they both like to beat the fellow team players in front of public without notice. Or perhaps as they say they both often become sikh at intermittent times and lose whatever thinking powers they might have. After Mohammad Asif with the bat ... More About: Entertainment , Sreesanth
Dangerous Game of PPP
2008-04-26 15:00:00 Pakistan People’s Party is traversing the dangerous curves in a very reckless manner and pretending that it knows the odds. Though they didn’t have much to offer in the general elections, they cashed in on the brutal assassination of two-time Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and became the majority party in the center and two of ... More About: Politics , War On Terror , Game , Dangerous
Decent Misinterpretation or Criminal Negligence
2008-04-26 12:28:00 Once again, we are ready to receive violent smash and criminal reinforcement, through the rule of law, from the same class of our own people, who were supposed to react and behave as idols, to the nation and upcoming generation, in the form of fate and future of the progeny as decision makers. Once again ... More About: President , United Kingdom , Features , Criminal , Pakistan Politics
Tussle of Nazim Karachi and PPP
2008-04-26 12:00:00 Karachi Water and Sewerage Board and the Karachi Building Control Authority were built during the tenure of city nazim Niamatullah Khan, and during that time the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) was part of the then provincial government. The two institutes were devolved at the town level to ease the administrative problems and to bring more efficiency ... More About: Features , Karachi
I will find it
2008-04-26 09:00:00 In these empty corners of this earth, I belong somewhere, a land of my own I hear my names, as my soul cries Alone and abandoned, in my search From one place to another, I move Like an orphan from one home to another In these empty corners of this earth, I belong somewhere, a land of my own As these caravans of ... More About: Misc , Find
Nude European and Indian Dancing Girls in IPL
More articles from this author:2008-04-26 08:26:00 Where Twenty20 cricket has snatched the classicism and passionate soothing touch of cricket, it has also put more glamour into the game as compared to the gaming. Just look at the ongoing Indian Premier League in India. For every match, some stars from Indian film industry Bollywood are invited and to put invite more audience scantly ... More About: Dancing , Girls , European 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |



