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News for Tuesday, 23 Nov 2010

Encroachments

I want to request the provonial authorities to take notice of encroachments and road blocks. The encroachments on various roads of the city have swelled to an alarmingly high levels.

Following the Sufis

This is in response to the article written by Imran Khan and published by this newspaper on November 23. The writer has validly pointed out some of the positive points...

Frivolous questions

Recently a programme on a private TV channel was telecast in which an interviewer asked the US Ambassador to Pakistan about her age and the colour of lipstick used by...

Pity my countrymen!

I often pity my countrymen for the poor programmes they have to bear with on many TV channels. One can often watch frequent speeches of Altaf Hussain who is in...

Controlling inflation

If the federal government is sincere with the people, it should take the necessary measures to rein in rising prices of commodities by directing the provincial government that the local...

Comedy of errors

The politics of Pakistan is a unique comedy of errors. The politicians are eager to overdo themselves in an attempt to gain favours from the establishment and military junta. They...

Eat, pray, tax

The observance of Eid this past week gave one a rare glimpse into the plight of citizens and how similar our fate is to that of livestock at slaughtering time....

The winter blues

Im writing this on Monday evening in an internet caf in Nizamuddin Basti, a 14th century urban village in Delhi, famous for a sufi shrine that gives its name to...

Extravagance of morality

Consider this paradox: Pakistanis generally believe that the time of their fathers and grandfathers was more moral than the world we now live in. We have laws today which ban...

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