COVID-19 outbreak has increasingly affected health, especially the minds of people. A strict lockdown has been imposed in Pakistan by the government due to this transmittable virus. People are feeling suffocated while being locked in quarantine at home for more than two months. COVID-19 is a threat to life, and it has highly affected the minds because all of a...
"Has Imran Khan married?" A story published in The News by Umar Cheema, claimed that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s chairman has tied knot with his spiritual guide on 1st January, 2018. PTI's leaders have however strongly denied the rumors of Khan's third marriage but now, an image has surfaced on media claiming to be Imran Khan sitting with his third wife. The...
By: Muhammad Ali Azlan Long ago in a distant land I, Aku, the shape-shifting Master of Darkness, unleashed an unspeakable evil! But a foolish Samurai warrior wielding a magic sword stepped forth to oppose me. Before the final blow was struck, I tore open a portal in time and flung him into the future, where my evil is law! I...
For Pakistan, the year 2018 started with this tweet. The United States has foolishly given Pakistan more than 33 billion dollars in aid over the last 15 years, and they have given us nothing but lies & deceit, thinking of our leaders as fools. They give safe haven to the terrorists we hunt in Afghanistan, with little help. No more!...
Sharukh Jatoi was allowed to go home after an affidavit was presented in the court the signed by the slain Shahzaib Khan’s father that he has forgiven the convicts in the name of Allah and that he no longer wishes to pursue the case. Subsequently, a powerful wadera was freed even after murdering in cold blood. It caused immense furore...
Ali Tareen, the son of Jehangir Khan Tareen will contest the by-elections on the seat left vacant by the disqualification of his father. There is no wrong in a son filling up the boots of his father or choosing the same occupation as his father. But, the problem lies in our political system where dynasties rule on the basis of...
By: |Syed Tazmeen Javed| Everyone dreams big. This tends to be the aspiration of every youngster that has the vision of inspiring others. Karachi is the city of huge talents, hope and the city to do something unique. This amounts to be the distinctive feature of few individuals who dream high but corroborate their talent with hard work, passion with...
People were optimistic. They knew someone is coming back who’ll raise a voice for them. Rapturous, they were looking forward to her return. Benazir Bhutto was coming back. In October 2017, Benazir Bhutto came back to Pakistan after 11 years in self-exile. She came back to her people who were eager to welcome her. The adulation was ubiquitous. It was...
By: | Abdul Moiz Malik | This year, we’ll commemorate Quaid’s 141th birthday. Had he been alive, what he would have seen in the country he created? Let’s imagine the resurrection of Quaid. He walks out of his grandiose mausoleum and what’ll greet him? Couples eloping near his resting place treating it like a place for leisure and excursion. Massive ditches...
By: Waqas Jawaid The political scenario which Pakistan is going through these days is not very pleasing, and the year 2017 has proved to be quite complicated for Pakistan politics. But when we talk about sports is vice versa to politics. Cricket is the sport that holds special significance among all others in Asian countries, especially in Pakistan. This is...
FIA submitted a report in Islamabad High Court that it was unable to find any evidence of blasphemy being committed by the bloggers who were alleged to have committed this crime. These bloggers, Waqas Goraya, Salman Haider, Asim Saeed, and Ahmed Raza Naseer were abducted earlier this year. Initially it was being treated as another case of forced disappearance. Their...
The controversial or rather political move by Donald Trump to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital ignited the religious sentiment of Muslims all over the world triggering protests across the Muslim world and drawing strong condemnation. Why is moving of US embassy such a controversy? The status of Jerusalem has been a matter of dispute for both Israel and Palestine. Within...
By: | Muhammad Ali Azlan | PART 1 PART 2 Capitalizing on West Pakistani fears of East Pakistani separatism, Bhutto demanded that Sheikh Mujib form a coalition with the PPP. The Agartala Conspiracy Case was a sedition case in Pakistan during the Ayub Regime against Awami League, brought by the government of Pakistan in 1968 against Sheikh Mujibur Rahman,...
If something that encapsulates the current Ashes’ outcome, it is the ball bowled by Mitchell Starc to James Vince on the fourth day of Perth test. A peach of the delivery bowled from round the stump pitching on middle stump, straightened up to castle Vince’s off stump leaving a bewildered Vince just stare at the pitch in shock. On any...
By: |Syed Tazmeen Javed| Recitals are the purest form of expression of Love that one could express while reciting anything that hold sanctity. Known as 'Religious Hymns' among Christians, 'Bhajan' in Hindu literature; whereas in Islam it is more sensitive and delicate. My hands may be shaking to the extreme that could cause dissents for the readers but let speak...
By: | Muhammad Ali Azlan | PART 1 Bhutto was not a common man. He didn’t come from a common family and nor did he have common upbringing. He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and hailed from a prominent political family with his father being the last diwan (prime minister) of the state of Junagadh,...
By: | Muhammad Ali Azlan | Dictatorships are often unexpected. They have arisen among prosperous, educated and cultured people who seemed safe from a dictatorship – in Europe, Asia and South America. Consider Germany, one of the most paradoxical and dramatic cases. During the late 19th century, it was widely considered to have the best educational system in the world....
