If you are using any form ofSocial Media, you come across PTI Trolls or IMRANIs, as I like to call them,on a daily basis. Now in most cases when you come across them, they make emotionally charged arguments that require less than 2 minutes to be demolishedand broken down. They keep on going about the [...]

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Dear MQM and MQM Supporters, Writing an open letter to you isnever something anyone in this country wants to do. But the way you guys keepbehaving with regards to Media and criticism in general is now just annoying. Ichose to write this after seeing your lovely reaction to the whole KashifAbbasi episode. Firstly, you guys [...]

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So finally Marvi Memon has made adecision.  She has joined the PML N.Flanked by Mian Saab and Ghaus Ali Shah, Marvi announced the many reasons thatconvinced her that the PML N was the right party for her. I think she made theright choice eventually, not just for the reasons she quoted in that pressconference but [...]

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Out of all the problems we faceas a country, Energy seems to be the one that annoys us all the most. It’s notthat other issues are not important or are somehow less annoying; it is justthat every single person in Pakistan uses energy in one form or another andhence is directly affected by it at [...]

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We are finally coming to terms with the fact that our mediais an out of control monster that was originally created for public good. But justlike in the Star Wars, where Anakin Skywalker starts out being a Jedi andprotector of the truth but ends up being Darth Vader, our media is going downthe same path. [...]

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YDA Protesting … Again…. For a while now I have beenplanning to write something about Health Care in Pakistan. But now, given theawesome strike by the Young Doctor’s Association in Lahore, this seems to be anideal time to present my views on this and other related issues. To start with,there should be no doubt in [...]

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A couple of days ago the Lahore Bar Association managed todo what no other bar association has been able to do so far; they lowered theirbar. They decided to ban all products by a company called SHEZAN from beingserved at court premises because apparently according to them SHEZAN is Ahmadiowned. Now you would think that [...]

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For a while now there has been a discussion about the rolethat the media plays. Throughout that discussion it has always been said thatthe media is unbiased and it is doing its duty of bringing hard facts toviewers spread all across Pakistan. The assumption has been that nomatter who owned the media outlet it would [...]

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It was about a year ago that theprotesters started gathering at Tahrir Square to protest the authoritarian ruleof then President Mubarak. The people gathering at Tahrir did not belong to apolitical party nor did they belong to one ideology, they were just ordinary people gathering there from all over Egypt. After decades of tyranny, these [...]

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Photo Credit: SANA News Agency To say that Pakistan is ahappening place would be an understatement, we are a country that has atsunami, flood and even an earthquake coming but thankfully all this is justcoming in the political sense. With the political situation changing so rapidlyit is no wonder that our media is mostly in [...]

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The recent formation of a splinter group of PTI called PTI-Nhas come as a shock to quite a few PTI supporters. In the days that havefollowed since its creation PTI-N has spent considerable time on social mediasites trying to explain why they have broken away from their mother party. WhatPTI-N has done is nothing new, [...]

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Photo Credit: PAKISTAN TODAY Yesterday the Lahore Development Authority sealed the famousdepartmental store Al Fatah’s Liberty Market branch for building violations. Itwas something that LDA has done in the past and is a routine as per a judgmentpassed by the Supreme Court against illegal structures. But in this case,instead of accepting their mistake and accepting [...]

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Javed Hashmi has done what noother party including the establishment has been able to do for over 20 years;genuinely weaken the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz. His defection to PTI hascome at a time when PTI is gaining momentum and PML N is at a crossroads. Itis beyond doubt that this defection is going to have [...]

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Our Media and Power Brokers keepgoing on and on about how our country is going through a tough time on a dailybasis. Just the other day I was listening to radio and I hear this dramatic aidfor some show on a TV Channel that started out by counting everything wrongwith Pakistan like Corruption, Governance Problems, [...]

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