Well, today he is known to each and every person, and I wont be wrong If I say he has become a house hold name. Yes, its none other than Baitullah Mehsud. Those who have followed the spread of “war on terror” into Pakistan have two words for this guy, admiration and suspicion.
I say admiration, for the fact that the way he has moved to the top of the barbaric warlord is a mystery itself. When after 9/11 the invasion of Afghanistan took place, he was not heard of.
April 10th, 2009 by
Abu Osama A society which blames the Muslims for ill-treating women… A society where Judiciary is free, independent and effective… A society which jumps into other nations’ issues without any invitation…. A society where the media is repeatedly broadcasting a fake video of SWAT girl flogging… A society whose ambassador to United Nations has raised this issue in UN and influenced the UN Secretary General to speak and condemn it, without first checking the authenticity of the video. This very same society, this very same country has some stories of its own that is not made as public in international media as the media of US publicizes the stories of Muslim world, especially Pakistan.
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April 9th, 2009 by
Kashif Aziz 
It is April and summer of 2009 is just around the corner. Karachities are getting ready for the summer by buying fans, air conditioners and fridges, and worrying whether they may be able to use these ‘luxuries’ during the summer or not. In fact, UPS devices and generators are more in demand than the ‘cool’ products.
While this may leads to an interesting needs vs wants marketing study, the impact of unscheduled power cuts is catastrophic on the economy and people of Karachi. The ‘load shedding’ has virtually destroyed business and trade in the cosmopolitan. Manufacturers, producers, service providers, even shop keepers are unable to operate efficiently due to power cuts as long as 6-8 hours a day. Load shedding gave people another reason to fall back on deadlines, quoting ‘light nahi thi, kya karain‘ (what we can do, as there was no power).
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April 9th, 2009 by
Kashif Aziz Riots and protests spread across Balochistan after bodies of central president of Balochistan National Moment (BNM) Ghulam Mohammad Baloch, leader of Baloch Republican Party Sher Mohammad Baloch and member of central committee of BNM Lala Munir Baloch were found in Paidarek, Balochistan.
According to The News, several cities of Balochistan including Quetta hit by protest against kidnapping and killing of Baloch leaders. A shutter down strike is being observed in Turbat, Gwadar, Panjgur, Khuzdar, Mushkay, Awaran and other areas.
Angry protestors hurled stones on cars and set a blaze four vehicles in Quetta whereas PPP office set on fire in Panjgur. Protestors threw stones at DC office in Gwadar.
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April 9th, 2009 by
Hamid Abbasi Well they say guests are a blessing, and they need to be hosted with all the dignity. I agree. But if you have guests in the shape of Richard Holbrooke and Gen Mullen. Yes, exactly the two gentlemen from Uncle Sam, who were here yesterday.
Previously, if your memory can scroll a bit deep, we had Richard Boucher. Whenever he used to pay a visit, unfortunately “misery” was the following drama.
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April 8th, 2009 by
Kashif Aziz While the western world, including United States of America, is all hue and cry over the fake video of a girl flogged in Swat, they should be checking their closet for incidents much brutal and savage than what was allegedly happened in Pakistan.
The brutality of law enforcement agencies of USA, including the Police, FBI and CIA is no secret. Leaving the atrocities committed overseas aside, tales of their savagery induced on their own people are exposed every now and then. However, such glimpses of the real face of America do not usually make it to the world. And if they do, the perpetrators got benefit of doubt as they do not have beards, wear turbans or hail from a third world country.
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April 6th, 2009 by
Hina Safdar After few stressful days and some intense kind of posts I wanted to lighten things up with this article. But it seems that no body wants an optimistic person like me. Alas! I could not write some thing lighter to share with you all but another grief is there to share. I am a patriot no doubt, every Pakistani is, but I differ in the sense that I still believe that we will be a developed and prosper nation soon, although signs are not visible yet. The sky of our prosperity is still heavily clouded with despair. I hope we would soon be able to overcome. Insha’Allah.
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April 6th, 2009 by
Hamid Abbasi Like many in Pakistan, to me it also seemed that at last we have bid farewell to a war zone type of scenario, and at last we will move to the land of peace that we always opted.
If you these words a bit exaggerated, I must remind you the time that with every bang, we used to grasp our cell phones and either call or text our loved ones, asking them if they were lucky enough to have survived the carnage of suicide bombing, or has it been too late?
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April 5th, 2009 by
Kashif Aziz Days after the video of a girl flogged by ‘Taliban’, allegedly in Swat, hitting the world and amongst the protests raised by liberal ‘human rights’ activists and fascist political parties, the people of Swat have came forward and denied any thing like that happened in their area.
According to the News, residents of Swat valley have denied occurrence of any incident in which a girl had been whipped in front of public.
Addressing a press conference in Swat Press Club, Raja Liaquat Ali, chairman Pakistan International Human Rights, has said that the video footage of a 17-year old Swat girl being aired on media is fictitious and termed it a conspiracy to malign Islam.
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April 5th, 2009 by
Commoner Whoever was thinking that after the restoration of justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry as the chief justice of Pakistan and after the reinstatement of Shahbaz Sharif as the chief minister of Punjab and after the peace accord in Swat, the situation would start improving in Pakistan and the healing process would start immediately was living in the fool’s paradise.
Instead of the betterment, things are sliding down rapidly towards more chaos and confusion and new, much more frightening crisis have emerged. Though a good news has come from Balochistan, the suicide attack in Islamabad has eclipsed whatever relief we got from the Balochistan.
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April 5th, 2009 by
Hamid Abbasi I would say that I am somewhat in a state of shock this morning. Nearly all our papers have carried out news regarding a warning, issued by our top intelligence circles. This time around, they have warned that a plan has been unearthed to rock Pakistan, of course by “RAW”, to carry out a coordinated attack on the life of people’s CJ, Iftikhar Chaudhry. The warning is serious, as it has gone a mile further. According to the details, around 20 Uzbeks have reached the suburbs for this reason, and above all local help, readily available via Baitullah and other alike, is already on its way. Now for a reminder, a same warning directly naming RAW as the culprit behind the recent attacks were issued by our agencies. We have seen the implication of the previous two attacks, but this time the cost and stakes are pretty severe.
April 5th, 2009 by
Hina Safdar Human trafficking differs from people smuggling. In the latter, people voluntarily request smuggler’s service for fees and there may be no deception involved in the (illegal) agreement. On arrival at their destination, the smuggled person is usually free. On the other hand, the trafficking victim is enslaved, or the terms of their debt bondage are highly exploitative. The trafficker takes away the basic human rights of the victim.(Wikipedia)
According to U.S. State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2008:
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April 4th, 2009 by
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Why a five/six month old incidence of flogging a woman has been now publicized by Samar Minallah, and later widely circulated around the world. It is learnt that recording from a phone camera of above event was sold to international brokers, a lottery for Samar Minallah to earn hundred thousand dollars and free publicity.
Punishment to woman was Islamic or non-Islamic; it is duty of courts and clergy to comment on the matter. Distribution and publicity of above event on such a large scale around the world have political ambitions rather human rights or women protection concerns. If you pick today’s newspaper the statements of a particular group is witness to the fact that this political drama is based on sectarian abhorrence.
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April 3rd, 2009 by
Hina Safdar Karachi is the largest city of Pakistan and an industrial hub too. City has been through a dramatic change in the last two decades. From new buildings to fly over and under passes to huge shopping stores and malls, it has become a glamorous city now. We use to read in our text books that ” Roshnion ka shehar Karachi”. It has truly been a city of lights and inspiration to me. Now even more beautiful and worth watching place.
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April 3rd, 2009 by
Kashif Aziz The idea of Utility Stores was to provide essential goods on subsidized prices to the less privileged. However, like the institutions in Pakistan, Utility Stores got eaten up by corruption and nepotism.
Following is an image of Utility Store in Liaqauatabad, Karachi. It is now used to “park” donkies. The way things are going, soon we see them parked across all government (and many private) offices in Pakistan.
Image: Jang
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April 2nd, 2009 by
Hamid Abbasi 
The recent developments have clearly shown, atleast for a while, that the power to appoint our public office bearer resides with the people. It was the prayers of grief stricken mothers who got justice for her child killers. It was the blessing of that labourer, who for once ate as much as he always desired, with the “roti” selling at 2rs, and it was the prayers of that father who got free medicines for his dying son, that people’s CM Shahbaz Sharif got his rule back. If the above attributes were not there, this would not have happened.
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April 2nd, 2009 by
Hamid Abbasi 
It is simply heart breaking to see the Valley of Peace, quietly turning into a shooting gallery. It is none other than the beautiful valley of Swat, which has recently transformed into a hub for extremists. The establishment has no answer as to how this development occurred, and why it was allowed to happen in the first place. Swat and extremism was a distant cry before the “War on Terror” started. It was back then, that one Maulana Sufi Mohammad embarked on a Jihad, to assist Taliban forces in Afghanistan. It is worth mentioning that honorable Maulana assembled, through unconfirmed reports an army of around 7000 young devotees and crossed into Afghanistan. It was reported that at the crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistan, they were stopped by the Taliban, as they made it clear that man power was no match against the allied arsenal, but Maulana Sufi Mohammad forced his way through.
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April 2nd, 2009 by
Hina Safdar 
American president Barack Obama emerged as a hope for the world when he announced that Guantanamo prison will be closed in an year.It was the first eminent decision by him indeed. According to latest news from BBC and New York Times, it has been reported that there are eight Pakistani prisoners remaining in Guantanamo.
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April 1st, 2009 by
Hamid Abbasi The attacks on Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore has left not only the public stunned, but it has also dragged the agencies into a state of shock. A life line for not only Pakistan’s cricket, but rather our overall International image has been lost for good. Even more shocking is the fact that we are still clueless regarding not only the whereabout, but the real hand behind it. One thing is for sure, most fingers are pointing to the Eastern neighbour, and this is not at all wrong. Like previously, our establishment will take its time and under its ultra sensitive diplomatic code of conduct, they will simply decline this fact.
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April 1st, 2009 by
Hamid Abbasi US wants a democratic and stable Pakistan?
Its been years since I have been listening to the noble intentions nearly all US Presidents, and their teams, had for Pakistan. This is the same feeling that I got just days earlier, when President Obama unleashed his AfPak policy. But sitting roughly 10,000 miles away in a third world country named Pakistan, I feel strongly that it is high time that the romance of words, rather than action, from US must end, or atleast deep inside themselves they should realize what your actions have really given to us.
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March 31st, 2009 by
Hina Safdar It has been a busy month for me as I am a teacher and students of Matric are having their final board exams. It has been a rule that board of secondary education assign the status of Examination Center to few schools, which can conduct exams. Students had to go to the prescribed center and give exam. No one is allowed to change the center. But I often hear that “It is Pakistan and any thing is possible here”, which now seems quite right to me. From political crisis to judiciary reinstatement, anything or everything can happen here.
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March 31st, 2009 by
Kashif Aziz Going through the developments and aftermath of recent attack on Police Training Center in Lahore, I sat wondering what is happening to Pakistan. Since last couple of years things are going downhill for us, starting from Lal Masjid crisis, Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry issue, May 12, October 18, Benazir Bhutto’s Assassination and Long March. Not to mention the dire situation of Swat and the Tribal Areas.
It all started with Pervez Musharraf’s acceptance of becoming a part in America’s alleged War on Terror. While Military Inc and Corporatocracy were busy piling the dollars, people of Pakistan died everyday. Innocent civilians, Jawans of Army and Sepoys of Police gave their lives for feudal politicians, corrupt bureaucracy and realestate-agent minded generals.
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March 30th, 2009 by
Commoner At one end, the new Obama administration, their army officials and the media has aligned itself against the Pakistanis security agencies and the army, and on the other side the terrorists have made the country a living hell. Lahore attacks on the G.T. Road are just an example.
The siege at the Manawan Police Center in Lahore has ended, bringing a halt to eight-hour long operation. Security forces have arrested four terrorists before regaining control of the besieged Police Center. Four terrorists were also killed in the operation. But that is surely not the end. It all started long ago and it seems that it would go on for quite a time.
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March 30th, 2009 by
Kashif Aziz March madness continues for Pakistan, especially Lahore. After the attack on Sri Lanka Cricket team and the Long March, Lahore came into limelight again when a Police training camp in the suburbs of Lahore was attacked by heavily armed terrorists.
According to news reports, 10-15 armed terrorists, apparently in Police uniforms with assault rifles and backpacks, attacked the training camp located in Manawan in early hours of the day. There are approximately 700-800 recruits inside the camp and majority of them were in the ground performing the assembly. The terrorists threw hand grenades, followed by heavy firing and made their to the premises, injuring scores of police recruits in the process. While I write this, police, rangers, SSG commandos and other law enforcement agencies have sieged the training center and exchange of heavy fire is going on. Army choppers are also brought in. LEAs are proceeding cautiously as large number of recruits are still in the building.
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March 28th, 2009 by
Kashif Aziz 
Asif Ali Zardari, President of Pakistan, left for Dubai in the evening of Pakistan Day on March 23rd. The “official” reason of the visit was to meet his family in Dubai. However, Zardari apparently went to Dubai to have secret negotiations with US officials, apparently to regain American trust and to discuss issues endangering his government. attempt to gain more time for his seat in the highest office.
Gulf News has reported that in Dubai President Zardari met with Richard Holbrooke, US Envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan. Also present at the meeting was Pakistan Ambassador to the US Hussain Haqqani and the US Ambassador in the UAE Richard G. Olson, Jr.
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March 26th, 2009 by
Kashif Aziz Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, chairperson of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and son of Benazir Bhutto, is in Larkana to pay homage to his slain mother. While he can visit Pakistan (his country?) whenever he wants to, his current visit is in the wake of Long March, declining reputation of his father, President Asif Ali Zardari and rumors of rift in the Bhutto Family. Maybe he is asked to do a trip to calm PPP voters, specially in Sindh.
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March 26th, 2009 by
Commoner When current government came into being, there was lots of hope, dreams and confidence and the people were really excited and very much energetic about the newly found democratic and people were ready to sacrifice and the things started to roll forward in the right directions with the right velocity.
But now as one year has passed, things have started to go awry. Just within first year, people have come to know that this government is just the continuity of the Musharraf regime. Rather, Pakistan has never been shown so much obsequiousness to the Americans in the last sixty years. Now petty officers like Richard Holbrooke do the press conferences with out top leadership.
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March 23rd, 2009 by
Commoner The prestigious Foreign Policy magazine has issued a list of world’s top 13 losers and President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan figures in the top five on the list.
The magazine said the 13 choices for this month ranked by just how little sympathy we should have for them.
Placing Asif Ali Zardari at No 5, the magazine said: “Zardari was known to be a bad guy long before he became Pakistan’s president.
Many of the closest friends of his late wife, Benazir Bhutto, could not stand him. Now, as it turns out, neither can most of the Pakistani people.
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March 23rd, 2009 by
Commoner President of Pakistan and the co-chairman of Pakistan People’s Party Asif Ali Zardari a.k.a Mr. 10 Percent has started exploring multiple avenues to regain his lost credibility. He knows that now his fake and disgusting smiles couldn’t be powerful enough to persuade people with an iota of sanity towards him.
He wanted people to believe his lies and he wants people to do that now. He has audaciously managed to bring himself so low in quite a short period of time with the help of his unelected and equally disgusting toadies. He never wanted to restore Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, but he did it. President Asif Ali Zardari has said that his position has not weakened by the restoration of judges in the wake of long march.
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March 22nd, 2009 by
Commoner Flag hoisted, Slogans raised and praises accumulated and Chief Justice reinstated, now is the time to do some action and to placate the burning aspirations of the people of Pakistan who are excessively thirsty for the justice for the past 60 years. This has come just when the Pakistanis are about to commemorate the Pakistan resolution of 1940 on the 23rd March and when they are going to remember what their founder said as the vision for the country.
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March 21st, 2009 by
Commoner The political situation in the country is very uncertain and the biggest theater is set in the biggest province of Pakistan: In Punjab. The federal government has filed a petition in the Supreme Court here praying for a Stay Order against its earlier decision upholding the Sharif brothers’ electoral disqualification by the Lahore High Court. Earlier, the federation had filed four separate petitions in the Supreme Court for the revision of the SC February 25 decision relating to the declaration of Sharif brothers.
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IPL chairman Lalit Modi claims 90 per cent of the tickets for the cash-rich Twenty20 event have been sold at the eight venues.”The ticket prices had been aimed at filling the stadiums,” Modi said at a press conference ahead of the event which will start with Chennai Super Kings taking on Mumbai Indians.
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DUBAI, April 17 (Reuters) - Pakistan has been stripped of hosting rights for the 2011 World Cup because of the ‘uncertain security situation’ in the country, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said on Friday.”The uncertainty created by events in Pakistan created a huge question mark over our ability to do just that.”
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Syed Talat Hussain brings Fresh episode of Live with Talat 17 April 2009 with his Guests Maj. Gen Tariq Khan Director General Frontier Corps.
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Baluchistan is the backbone of Pakistan. If you make it weak you can make Pakistan weak, and, if you break it you can break Pakistan. In today’s exclusive discussion with Zaid Hamid we try to understand the ‘game’ being played in Baluchistan and what is the solution to this problem.
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LAHORE: Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan has demanded that mid-term elections should be held in Balochistan by dissolving the provincial assembly.
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MUZAFFARPUR: A criminal case was filed in a court on Thursday accusing Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and off-spinner Harbhajan Singh with ‘hurting’ fans by staying away from the Padma awards function.
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Mushtaq Minhas and Nusrat Javed present another fresh episode of Bolta Pakistan 16 April 2009 on Aaj Tv Network.
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by Ahmed Quraishi
The truth is that the three murdered Pakistani Baloch politicians had become a political liability and a security risk for Brahamdagh Bugti and a threat to his entire infrastructure of terror inside Pakistan. The three had developed a good working relationship with Pakistani security officials during hostage negotiations.
Read More >> By jasmine at 16 April, 2009, 3:16 pm
A Department of Homeland Security report warning of possible radicalization of right-wing extremists rubs US conservatives the wrong way. The report released last week by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Intelligence and Analysis suggested that concerns over illegal immigration, abortion, increasing federal power and restrictions on firearms could lead to acts of violence.
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CAPE TOWN: Fast bowler Brett Lee will miss Kings XI Punjab’s opening matches in the Indian Premier League despite being withdrawn from the Australia ODI squad to play Pakistan in Dubai.
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CAPE TOWN: Indian Premier League (IPL) commissioner Lalit Modi promised Wednesday a non-stop carnival atmosphere at this year’s tournament in South Africa.
Read More >> By newsadmin at 16 April, 2009, 3:07 pm
CAPE TOWN: Cape Town is readying for the biggest celebrity influx of the year as the off-field stars of the Indian Premier League (IPL) converge on the Mother City.
Read More >> By newsadmin at 16 April, 2009, 3:06 pm
MUMBAI: The involvement of some of Bollywood’s biggest stars in the Indian Premier League (IPL) means the world’s best one-day cricketers are not the only draw when the competition starts this weekend.
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