‘Your Leaders Reflect You’ by Orya Maqbool Jan

By Orya Maqbool Jan | Daily Express

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Elite major hurdle in tax base widening: Hafeez tells Senate

By Qamar uz Zaman ISLAMABAD  (September 23, 2010) : Federal Finance Minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Sheikh on Wednesday termed the “elite” of the country as a major hurdle in broadening the tax base and responsible for promoting culture of tax evasion, which is dragging the economy away from self-reliance. Replying to several questions in the Senate, [...]

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Gov. urged to curb corruption and Opposition Senator Khurshid Ahmed resisted Flood Tax

By Business Recorder ISLAMABAD  (September 22, 2010) : Opposition Senators have strongly opposed the imposition of flood tax, urging the government to create fiscal space by reducing expenditures and curbing corruption in various institutions. Taking part in the debate, Senator Professor Khurshsid Ahmed said that the government should reduce its expenditure and control massive annual corruption [...]

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Clerics vow to join hands with government against terrorism

ISLAMABAD: Religious clerics from various schools of thought on Sunday vowed to join hands with the government to foil terrorists’ designs in order to maintain sectarian harmony in the country. They also decided to observe a day against terrorism to express solidarity amongst their ranks. Interior Minister Rehman Malik had called up the exclusive meeting [...]

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‘Punjab government protecting terrorists’ said senior religious scholars

KARACHI: Senior religious scholars have accused the Punjab government for harbouring and protecting terrorists in Sindh as such elements are freely conducting their activities in the urban areas, resulting in casualties on a regular basis. Jaffaria Alliance Pakistan chief Allama Abbas Komaili called on Sunni Rehbar Council chief Mufti Muneebur Rehman at the Jamia Naeemia [...]

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Have Humanity Oh Politicians of Pakistan

Oh Politicians of Pakistan, Rightist and Leftists, Islamists and Secularists, Illiterates and Phds, Ignorant and Intelligent, do you not see what is happening in your country. Do you not feel the pain of all these innocent lives that are being taken every other day? Have you all lost your humanity? You all claim to be [...]

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Poly Ticks

Politics — nowadays is also served on the dining table inclusive of some extra spice in association with the favorite political talk show being aired at that moment, otherwise the usual gossip on politics is always into the bargain at the dining table. The prominent thing about politics is that it’s unscheduled, in a way [...]

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A Little-Known Human Farm

When George Orwell wrote the book ‘Animal Farm’, he rather aimed to mock a particular character Joseph Stalin and his Stalinism. George Orwell was really not oblivious that the traits of Stalin could also be followed by future leaders of other countries apart from Soviet Union; however, he never mentioned it since all political leaders [...]

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The Salient-Hidden Rulers

Only fools are glad when governments change. No, this isn’t my personal sentiment I’m expressing. It’s an old Romanian maxim that really-truly implies that it’s solely not the change of government that matters, but the change of system. Since the time Iskander Mirza, the first president of Pakistan, imposed the Martial Law and appointed General [...]

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Pakistan’s Mercenary Elites

By M. Shahid Alam, originally written on 9 October 2007. In Pakistan today we encounter a paradox crying for an explanation; it is a paradox, moreover, whose exploration can bring some clarity to the predicament of the Islamicate today. In January 2002, when President George Bush defined his near-term agenda for waging wars, he fixed his [...]

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