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A few Lines abt General Ashfaq Pervez Kiyani
2007-11-29 11:52:00
The former DG ISI has been promoted to the Chief of Army staff. General Ashfaq Pervez Kiyani was appointed as the Vice Chief of Army Staff and that was clearly the result of hearing of petitions against the dual offices kept by General Pervaiz Musharraf. He had promised the court that if he wins the presidential elections, he would leave the post of the Chief of Army Staff. Musharraf has expressed in a TV interview that General Ashfaq Pervez Kiyani is one of his loyalists and which is a clear indication that Musharraf would indirectly be controlling the Army.According to the military circle, General Ashfaq Pervez Kiyani fulfills all requirements for being chosen as the COAS. He is senior, loyal and has proficiency in him. He is known to be a determined and realistic with an approach to real professionalism. He has also remained to be the president of the Pakistan Golf association. He basically belongs to Ghakar and got his education from military college Jhelum. He was commissioned ...
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Who should be blamed for the system?
2007-11-28 06:18:00
Quaid-e-Azam created Pakistan and gave it a vision and leadership.He died a year later and sadly we haven't seen another leader since then.Later on law and constitution just became regular documents which were essential for record keeping and not for implementation."Doctrine of Necessity" was created to facilitate and legalize murder of constitution.Its not that the nation never rose to fight for justice.We saw two popular movements in 1968 and 1978.These movements lead to the ouster of those regimes but then everything was back to normal.Doctrine of Necessity was born again to abet the murder of the constitution again.Its true that those who were appointed to uphold the constitution actually facilitated its murder but then again were they ever held accountable?How can we expect supremacy of law if we ourselves dont follow it in our everyday lives?An overall change in the system can come only if it starts from the grass roots level.How many times have we asked the seargant to fine ...
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Why Nation is not taking the Brunt?
2007-11-28 04:47:00
Why is it that nation-wide mass agitation was seen in 1968 during the Ayub Khan era, and then in 1978 in the Bhutto era, and why is it that nation is not spilling over onto the roads in 2007?Its not that only lawyers, journalists, political workers, and students are unhappy and that is why they are protesting, and the poor people of Pakistan are happy and that is why they are acting as mere spectators. The thing is that these professionals (lawyers, media, students) have tasted the blessings of glasnost, and now its painful for them to become deprived of it. They are now against the same regime, which gave them a brief chance to see a semblance of open society, and when this regime rolled back its own good measures, professionals have started to complain, and complain vehemently.Poor people of Pakistan are not really perturbed and disturbed with the promulgation of emergency or the other gymnastics. It would be highly misleading to say that they are not coming on to the streets beca...
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Malik Taimoor Masood Akbar : An Election Candidate
2007-11-27 12:40:00
One of our readers from Taxila / Wah Cantt has sent some eye-opening facts about a PML-Q candidate for Punjab Assembly from Taxila/Wah Constituency. Though, its not that strange to read such things about our leaders in the assemblies, its nonetheless a responsiblity to atleast highlight such things. The purpose of this little expose is not to defame any person, but to let people of that constituency know. If you have also something to expose about the candidate of your area, feel free to email us, and we will pubish it with your reference, and if some candidate wants to clearup his position, he is also more than welcome to give his statement.Malik Taimoor Masood Akbar, a boy of 22 or 23 years of age has stood for the seat of Punjab Assembly from PP-5 from taxila/Wah area and its adjoining villages. This boy belongs to a family which is very rich and also very influential and they all have a history. Now this guy, Taimoor, who is now aspiring to become a leader by standing at the sho...
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Creative Pakistan
2007-11-27 12:36:00
Creative-Pakistan .com is a platform to showcase fresh and exquisite Web & CSS designs of creative Pakistani designers.By submitting your fresh and reviving designs to Creative-Pakistan.com, not only your work can be evaluated according to the web standards but a wide scale audience can give you comment and suggestions, as well.Their web authors evaluate your websites according to different designing and marketing analytics such as accessibility, content, design, marketing and visitor ratings. Sites not meeting the web standards would have low priority but it is not their requirement. They encourage you to have modern technologies in your creations.Since August 2006, they have published 800+ sites with much better backlinks, alexa rating, blog reactions, readership and improved Google PageRank.Creative Pakistan has been reviewed by Pakistan leading IT Magazine Sprider in February issue.
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Clash of Change and Status Quo
2007-11-27 04:50:00
We need to look through the iron curtain of emergency. In the frenzy of PCO-ed national horizon, things have become so much murky, bitter and confusing, its generating despair and a new wave of apathy.Now the danger is that as the novelty of Nawaz Sharif?s return wear off, nation would once again fall back into the mood of gloom and glum. Bureaucracy and agencies would do well to allow a free run of public will run through the free and fair elections, otherwise it would be hard even for US to save the system in Pakistan which is crumbling badly. On second thoughts, what a golden chance to get rid of this system of status quo.This system has taken its toll on the Pakistan nation now for sixty years. When we got independence from 1947, we became slavish to the over-developed civil servants, who didn?t spare a second to take control of the reigns. They haven?t shed it until now. Its them versus the forces of change.All this wadera-shahi and all this recurrent sackings of elected govern...
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Mission is Tough for Nawaz Sharif
2007-11-26 09:13:00
Pakistanis want their, whatever and whoever politicians back in the country. They want the continuation of the political process, and they simply want armed forces out of the corridors of national politics, and they also want the hardliners top creating little states within the states. It would be the quest for the preservation of the identity, which would lead to the election of Nawaz Sharif .Nawaz Sharif?s recent homecoming is one of those fresh blow of which nation was waiting. Many people, especially in the Punjab and NWFP provinces think that Nawaz Sharif is the best hope for Pakistan. The country, he has returned to, however is not the country he once ruled. Pakistan is altogether more violent than ever. Militants and self-proclaimed state holders are waging little yet bloody wars against their own people in Swat and North Waziristan.Nawaz Sharif can count on the unqualified support of his supporters throughout the country, and he can enjoy the most popular vote, and his rating...
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Interview with Blogger Ahmad Babar
2007-11-25 18:42:00
Could you tell us what made you decide to blog?It just happened. I used to post my works on orkut and then someone suggested that I should maintain a blog, so I did.What do you think sets Your blog apart from other blogs?Probably its simplicity. I just publish what I feel. Plus, I am not much of a blog reader so can?t really say how different it is from others? blogs.If you could choose one characteristic you have that brought you success, what would it be?Success?That?s seriously flattering. Still, if I have to pick one thing, it would be poetry.What was the happiest and gloomiest moment of your life?They both were probably the same moment when I finally realized that it wasn?t worth running after ?something?.If you could pick a travel destination, anywhere in the world, with no worries about how it'spaid for - what would your top 3 choices be?1. Northern Areas of Pakistan: Memories of my visits there in early childhood are still fresh in my mind, especially of the trip to Shangar...
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Mian Day Naray Wajun Gay
2007-11-25 18:20:00
If they promise to place me in the Saroor palace and give me a luxurious bullet-proof car at return, I would happily expect exile to Saudia Arabia without hijacking even a mouse. It looks quite an un-digestible coincidence that first Pervez Musharraf went to Saudia, and then ISI top man Nadeem Taj also reached there, and then all of a sudden news broke that Nawaz Sharif is returning to the country, and government didn?t even mention the accord of eight years ago.It seems that Pervez Musharraf has really gotten himself in a hole where no one is listening to him anymore. Commando is now fighting for himself, and has left his camarillas at their own .He went to Arabia to convince Shah Abdullah to stop Nawaz Sharif from doing remote politics in Pakistan, but got a double slap when not only Shah didn?t show any interest in his request, but also informed him that US hasn?t any objection to the return of Nawaz, and so Shah is very glad that Nawaz is going back to Pakistan. Then the ISI chi...
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Does PCO apply to judges only?
2007-11-24 16:57:00
A few days back the COAS announced the imposition of emergency plus.As a result the judges were required to take oath under PCO.According to my understanding the requirement to take a fresh oath under PCO means that the constitution of 1973 is suspended or held in abeyance.This means that all public office holders whose position requires them an oath under the suspended constitution should take a fresh oath under the PCO.If I'm not wrong its always the judges who have taken oath.Why is it so that other office holders never take oath under PCO.The recent PCO promulgated by the COAS only required the judges to take oath.According to the order the PM, Speakers of Senate,National Assembly etc were to function normally.My question is how can PCO be applied only to judges and not the other office holders?Does this mean that judges work under PCO and the other office holders work under the 1973 constitution?If yes then how is it possible to have a PCO and constitution working side by side...
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Blogistan's Reaction on Emergency
2007-11-24 09:40:00
Blog Name : Chowrangi (Fahd Mirza)Blog URL : http://www.chowrangi.com/Reaction on emergency: The ant has grown wings and instead of going towards the city, it has done the worst, i.e. has promulgated the emergency.Blog Name : Windmills of My MindBlog URL : http://www.kidvai.com/windmillsReaction on emergency:I think everyone, including many among those who support President Musharraf on a lot of matters, are stumped at not just the emergency but at the scale of the clampdowns on public expression, the media, and - now - the students in colleges and universities where they have been banned from discussing the situation. This last is, imo, the worst of all actions - for its consequences will be a lot greater, lasting well after the politicians, lawyers, and protestors have been released. Places of learning are, first and foremost, places of inquiry. They should be allowed to question everything, discuss alternate scenarios, propose ideas and counter-ideas and debate them in peaceful w...
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Boycott is not a Solution
2007-11-24 09:05:00
In continuation to upcoming free and fair elections many political parties are planning to boycott the elections of January 2008. Some small parties like of Air Marshal (Retd) Asghar Khan and Mehmood Khan Achekzai has already announced boycott. Imran Khan?s party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf is going to do the same on 26th November 2007. What scenario will be in elections:1. If PPP, PML(N), Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf, Jamaat-e-Islami, Ally parties in NWFP side line themselves in elections then PML(Q) may have un-opposed majority.2. If PML(N) comes into competition major vote bank of PML(Q) may then be distributed between the two parties and PML(Q) may not win the required seats.3. A coalition between PPP and PML(N) may be drastic to the ex-ruling party, but future of the coalition is not bright.4. A coalition between PML(N), Jamaat-e-Islami and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf will be a good venture for the nation and for the country.5. JUI(F) will be again a part of next government if succee...
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Rawalpindi Blasts
2007-11-24 05:49:00
Today morning two major explosion rocked rawalpindi cantonment proving that imposing emergency is not the solution to deal with terrorism and suicide attacks.Yesterday, firing on policemen in Quetta also witnessed alongwith granade attacks on different areas. Plea to the nation to remain calm and cool.
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Voltaire on tyranny
2007-11-23 18:56:00
So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannise them will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious or otherwise, to put shackles on sleeping men.
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Pakistan?s biggest problem:Illiteracy
2007-11-23 08:27:00
Pakistan became a free country in August 1947.Ever since we?ve faced alot of problems. Initially we didn?t get our share of money and weapons from the British. Alot of countries refused to recognize Pakistan as an independent state. Not to forget India, occupied some states which were meant to be a part of Pakistan. Then there were refugees coming in who had to be given food ,clothing, shelter etc. A year later Quaid-e-Azam died and we needed a leader who could handle the delicate situation boldly. A few years later we needed a constitution. And the list goes on. Pakistan?s problems have never ended. Successive governments paid attention to different things like economy ,constitution, law and order, foreign policy etc .But none looked at illiteracy as a problem. Governments thought that all we need to do is align ourselves with the Americans, buy weapons for armed forces, take blessings from the GHQ etc but none thought of making Pakistan an educated country. Everybody chose to igno...
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Pakistan?s biggest problem:Illiteracy
2007-11-23 07:07:00
Pakistan became a free country in August 1947.Ever since we?ve faced alot of problems. Initially we didn?t get our share of money and weapons from the British. Alot of countries refused to recognize Pakistan as an independent state. Not to forget India, occupied some states which were meant to be a part of Pakistan. Then there were refugees coming in who had to be given food ,clothing, shelter etc. A year later Quaid-e-Azam died and we needed a leader who could handle the delicate situation boldly. A few years later we needed a constitution. And the list goes on. Pakistan?s problems have never ended. Successive governments paid attention to different things like economy ,constitution, law and order, foreign policy etc .But none looked at illiteracy as a problem. Governments thought that all we need to do is align ourselves with the Americans, buy weapons for armed forces, take blessings from the GHQ etc but none thought of makingPakistan an educated country. Everybody chose to ignor...
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Our Scoop : How Musharraf Met with Nawaz in Saudia
2007-11-22 13:54:00
The minute news leaked that General Pervez Musharraf has gone to Saudi Arabia , rumors factories started churning out their products in ample quantity. The most striking and believable rumor was that Musharraf has gone to Hijaz to beseech Nawaz Sharif to strike a deal with him.The image which forms in the mind is something like that the Nawaz Sharif is almost laying down on a sofa-cum-bed with just Shalwar on, and noisily sucking the bone out of the bowl of Nehari, while Musharraf is sitting at the far away corner in his best Shalwar suit with waist coat smiling artificially and showing his mock awe over the dexterity by which Mian Sahib is devouring Nehari, Cholay, Paay, Hareesa, Maghaz and Nulli with uncountable kulchaas.After this light breakfast, Musharraf tried to attract the attention of heavily drowsy Mian Sahib by poking his stick in his belly, and when Mian Sahib started laughing uncontrollably, then Musharraf asked him to forget all the bitterness of past and forget all tha...
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Interview with Qurratulain Akhtar
2007-11-22 08:09:00
Would you please tell us something about you?I'm basically Finance graduate from University of Karachi, and currently working in the area of HRM at M.Phil. Besides that I'm a trained educator, having been in the field for about seven years and working as a freelance writer as well. Experience and details may show I'm an old lady, but m' not that old. It was just I studied along with my career. I'm in blogging since August 2006 whereby I took start from my personal blog at wordpress, not a long journey but learnt a lot, and now have become a blogging geek in fact. Just launched my own blog directory, it'll be accompanied by a blog forum soon, InshaAllah! I don't aim something high but just to bring a change in status quo.Could you tell us what made you decide to blog?It was just to outgrow my readership that I created a Wordpress blog, but the response I got from audience made me to hold it!What do you think sets Your blog apart from other blogs?Hmmm, difficult one! Probably, ...
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Cream for Pakistan Bano
2007-11-21 16:46:00
I don?t know why but whenever I watch ads of facial creams on television, they remind me of the ongoing plight of Pakistan .In those rosy ads, some gloomy looking girl with black complexion suddenly becomes blissfully pinkish white after just seven or fourteen days of cream usage. She not only grins widely at the cameras, but also gets shy from some guy who has suddenly found her dream girl in her. It all happens due to a cream. Cream changes the life of not only the girl but also her family, and they suddenly find themselves among myriad number of contenders for their charming creamy girl.There is a thing about those ads, which I find profoundly confusing. Black complexion girl suddenly finds herself black and taunted by friends? just days before someone from abroad or city is coming to see her and to select her as spouse. Then upon the suggestion of some beautiful friend, she starts using the cream, and viola, she becomes the beauty queen.Is there any cream which could turn the bla...

Devil (continues to) wear beard!
2007-11-21 01:14:00
Imran Khan is on hunger strike in prison. Yes I am talking about the same guy who leaded the only team which made us the World Champions in the cricketing world. For those who are unaware of the fact that how and when he ended up in jail, I have a very interesting tale to tell. Imran Khan after Nov 3rd became quite active; politically and went underground when the state police tried to arrest him during a protest march at LUMS.After that close escape we observed something very unique; students of LUMS and NU Lahore actively participated in the protest rallies which demanded to put an end on Military rule, the restoration of the 1973 constitution and freedom of media. In the mean while students of the biggest university of Punjab; PU invited Imran Khan to show up and lead their protest rally. On the D-day when Mr.Khan showed up a group of students gruesomely manhandled him and handed him over to the Govt. authorities who that were present their in white clothes. Now the question aris...
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Hellish PTCL : Phone n Net, DSL, VPhone
2007-11-20 17:35:00
Here is a trivia for you. If you guess it right, you would get a rare pleasureable oppurtunity to let your anger out, and if you dont guess, well you get the same reward of letting your steam out. So the question is, Guess which is the most disgusting, useless, screwed-up service in the world?Ok let me give you three choices: 1) PTCL DSL 2) PTCL Phone n Net 3) PTCL VPhoneWell you could give your answer and the reason in the comment. Let me confide in you about what I think about the above curses. That basically proved like a serial chain cursing for me. First I hated PTCL VPhone, then I abhorred PTCL DSL, and right now I curse PTCL Phone n Net. In a nutshell, PTCL as a whole is a miserable and hellish organization, which needs to be sold to Afghanistan for Rs. 13.Whatever Pakistani channels are left on the cable are littered with the noisy and garish advertisement of PTCL. Girls and boys are dancing and clamouring about what PTCL has done. Pick any newspaper, and you cannot miss hal...

News Update ; Nov 20, 2007
2007-11-20 08:46:00
Elections will be held on January 8th 2008, schedule for which will be announced today.In a meeting with the American Ambassador, Benazir has expressed that President Pervaiz Musharraf has no interest in democracy and it would be useless to take part inElections, and so she is not going to carry out any dialogues with him.APDM has announced to protest nationwide on 23rd November against the emergency, suspension of the constitution/ law and for putting up bounds over the media.As the result of firing from Gunship Helicopters in Swat, a total of 18 people including the militants have been reported to be dead.Imran Khan is carrying out hunger strike in Jail.President Pervaiz Musharraf has departed for a two day visit to Saudi Arabia. However Nawaz Sharif has defied talking to Musharraf as he says that he and his party sticks to his same point of view.
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The Should be System
2007-11-20 08:03:00
After 60 years of independence we are mentally slaves. Slaves to, the customs we learnt under the English rule, under pressure of majority of India, system awarded by the occupiers of almost two centuries, the attitudes developed by us to survive in such circumstances.Then to have a feeling of supremacy and occupancy we made our so called awarded system to be our slave. Thus resulting in total damage to the existing one, which may only benefit not all but some hundred people.We forgot our traditions and societal systems by running behind the attractive ones. It never mattered if we are able to achieve any one of the glittered systems to deal with our problems, to deal with our nation, to deal with our cases, last but not the least to deal with ourselves.I cannot foresee that if any democratic system is our destination within next 60 years. I cannot assure based on our behaviors and attitudes that any imported democratic system may help us to the extent we require.Running behind any ...
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Don?t Hit, It Hurts...
2007-11-20 05:15:00
Discipline should not leave lasting Scars By Fahmina NazChild Protection OfficerSPARC Lahore Violence Against ChildrenViolence against children is an old and accepted phenomenon in Pakistan, although no violence against children is justifiable; all violence against children is preventable. The UN Study on Violence Against Children defines violence as the use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, which results or is likely to result in injury, death, psychological harm or deprivation.Violence is found in schools, institutions, on the streets, in the workplace, in prisons. Children experience violence at home, within their family and from other children. Sometimes violence leaves visible marks and more than all it strike down the child?s personality. It is one of the most serious problems affecting children today.Violence can have severe implications for children?s development. In the most severe cases, it can lead to death or injury. However, it can also affect children?s...

Petitions Against Gen. Musharaf's Candidacy Returned
2007-11-19 10:39:00
Supreme Court of Pakistan today returned all petitions (except one) filed by different petitioners agianst candidacy of Gen Musharaf t be an elected President.Some lawyers did not persue the case due to many reasons. Anyway Congrats to New Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar as job is almost accomplished.Well Done.
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Problems need to be handled with care..
2007-11-19 04:45:00
Sometimes I get a feeling that life is a mere tension. People are tied to the customs and traditions and they are in a habit of self imposing all that. Some rules have been defined and if strictly followed, then one is said to be on the point, clever, or rational.When one gets married, expects a lot of importance and a special place to stand. I think it is the start of problems when one starts comparing with other people. There one lags behind and quarrel starts.In our society, the girls are take more pains to adjust with the in laws. They have to tolerate all type of behaviors without sharing it with their husbands to keep up with a peaceful life. So if the marital life is good, they feel no necessity to create quarrels and problems over all that they are facing just to avoid bigger tensions and dishonor. The men on the other hand don?t have such mind make up. They feel a lot and obviously react for it. Cutting off with girls? relatives is of the same pain as cutting off their own ...
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The Path of a Patriot
2007-11-18 15:04:00
By ApolloOpposing General Pervez Musharraf is not a cause worth endorsing solely by itself.General Pervez Musharraf is not the man he was when he first usurped the seat of Pakistan's government. Over time as his political age has advanced, he has undergone a staged metamorphosis: from an amateur idealist, to a practitioner of temperate Realpolitik, and then finally to an outright Machiavellian Prince. It will be profoundly self-righteous of any single one of us to contend with authority that if exposed to the General's temptations - the troika of International interests, institutional weaknesses and a manipulatable judiciary - we ourselves would not succumb to a similar fate.Opposing General Pervez Musharraf is therefore akin to focussing on the proverbial symptoms of a malady, and not its root, when in fact ours should be a struggle against the method of perpetuation of our affliction and not its recurring product. We are merely opposing a masque today. It is high time that we qu...
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King Musharraf Version
2007-11-17 17:34:00
The Unholy Trinity: the General, the President and the Holy Savior.In the beginning there was a political mess.And General was hovering over the land in a plane.Then General decided to bring military rule to the land and said, ?Let there be boots?.And boots there were!And General saw the light reaction of the people and felt that it was good.And General divided the blessed from the cursed, and the blessed were named PML-Q, and the cursed ones, PML-N.Then General said, ?Let Us make all those in Our uniform, dominant over all institutions, and over all those who creep on the land of the pure?Then General decided to descend on to the land in the form of the President.But the President failed to make the people accept Him as the Holy Savior and found Himself being tried in a court.And the President panicked over the thought of being punished on the Cross and shouted out to General and the Holy Savior.Once again, all three became one, and ordained in unison: ?Let there be more boots?.And...
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Marketing Strategy for Free and Fair Selection
2007-11-17 09:04:00
National Assembly has been dissolved and care-taker set has been introduced. Election (selection) may be held during January or February 2008 as announced by the government. Lets see this scenario in terms of marketing:1. Hiring of Marketing StaffElection marketing is nothing different from marketing of any product. Our politicians are another product to be marketed. Their packing is attractive, influential and bear slogans also. Marketing staff is required to attract the voters to the poling station. This staff would perform on perks and privilege bases. Experience of attractive voters will be preferred.2. Perks and Privileges Marketing packages may be designed in such a way that a person attracting voters to the poling station will get as per the followings:a) A person coming with 20 confirm votes will be awarded a motor bike.b) A person coming with 50 confirm votes will be awarded a Suzuki Mehran.c) A Person coming with 100 or above votes will be awarded a Suzuki Alto plus other ...
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Idiotly Dignified Old Cabinet
2007-11-17 07:47:00
Though President Musharraf declared the just dissolved assemblies as ?un-civilized? and ?idiots?, he never uttered a word against his cabinet. And if you are not jealous with the cabinet members, you cannot really resist to highlight their salient achievements over the course of previous years. I am at least not that much spineless to not to mention the great doings of the previous ministers.Through private channels nation enjoyed these ministers a lot, and they provided ample opportunities of enjoyment and you cannot snatch that credit from these ministers. Wasi Zafar tops the list. Yeah he was the most naïve and out-spoken and out-moving minister of all. He was famous for rubbing his hands, feet, and un-mentionable body parts right in front of T.V cameras which according to some people aimed at throwing the host of that program in total confusion. I confess that I also saw Asma Sherazi of ARYONEWORLD going bonkers in one program, when Wasi Zafar used his lethal ?argument? of rubbi...
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