By A.K.Chisti MQM is one political party which had been instrumental in not only bringing upon a change but had been in a constant state of introspection throughout her relatively short political years. It was obviously founded as a student reactionary force back in the ever rebellious late 1970’s and later transformed herself into a

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By Ameer Bhutto In recent weeks and months, the Taliban advances in the North West Frontier province of Pakistan have come to pose a far more direct threat to the Pakistani state than ever before. Not only have they occupied Swat district in the North West Frontier Province under a peace deal with the Government

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By : Farooq Tariq The historic and victorious lawyer’s movement was a rainbow of various political colour. One could see all sorts of political trends trying to give their colors to lawyer’s movement. There were greens like Jamaat-I Islami and Muslim League Nawaz, reds like Labour Party and National Workers Party. There was tri-color Pakistan

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By Barrister Ali.K Chisti My Dear President, I hope you are well..? I see you on the television every day with a wide smile and Mash’Allah you look younger than ever each passing day. My Dear President, I will come straight to the point, I am concerned as much as you are about the SWAT

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By Dr Khalid Zaheer A tiny minority of Muslims has engaged itself in a war (jihad) against the West in general and against the US, Israel, and India in particular. What they are doing through their military adventurism is causing the entire Muslim ummah suffering at the hands of the Jihadis and, because of their

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By Sitwat Rizvi I had no particular affinity with the city of Karachi having moved here only three months ago. When I came to Pakistan I was a little lost, a little lonely and completely out of touch with who I was or where I truly belonged. Luckily I stumbled upon The Citizens Archive of

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By Barrister Ali K.Chishti Imran Khan — the latter day Nawab Nasurallah Khan was described as a sight for the gods by the commentators in the sports arenas. Now, after 13 years in politics he looks more like Alice in Wonderland in the treacherous field of politics – used, abused and presumably rottening with frustration.

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By Taimur Rahman Recently Nadeem Farooq Piracha wrote an article that was very critical of Laal. It seemed from the article that he had neither heard the CD before writing the article nor did he bother to verify any of his claims from any member of Laal. The main objection that he raised was about

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By Tayyab Balagamwala It was 17 years ago on a beautiful evening of March 25th when Imran Khan’s cornered tigers rose to the highest honor possible in the game of cricket by winning a great game and lifting the coveted Waterball Crystal trophy which conferred the title of World Champions on them in front of

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By Tayyab Ballagamwala Day in and Day out, we have numerous political leaders, lawyers, activists and other self proclaimed analysts harping on about the restoration of judiciary which shall be a panacea for all ills of this country…. supposedly restoration of an independent judiciary will result in transition to a proper democratic system and will

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