Archive for March, 2010
Cruel protocols
1 March, 2010
Monday, March 01, 2010 IIt is difficult to imagine anything more embarrassing for a woman in our conservative culture than having to give birth in a rickshaw in the middle of a traffic jam because the police had blocked the roads to allow the passage of a VVIP – the president. The incident happened in [...]
Lucky escape
1 March, 2010Monday, March 01, 2010 The three boys were in deadly danger. They had got themselves stuck in the quicksand of one of the many treacherous lagoons there are in Karachi, were sinking and the end seemed in sight. Their cries for help were heard and the local community and the emergency services were quickly on [...]
Futile game of words
1 March, 2010IT was interesting to see Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir adopt a strong position on the dialogue with India once he had crossed back into Pakistan from what was to all intents and purposes a futile dialogue in New Delhi. He declared quite correctly that India needed to alter its perception about Pakistan which was not [...]
Dangerous incidents
1 March, 2010TWO incidents of clashes between Deobandis and Brelvis, two sub-sects of the Sunni sect, involving attacks on the processions taken out to celebrate the birthday of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) at Dera Ismail Khan and Faisalabad on Saturday, resulted in the deaths of nine persons and caused injuries to a much larger number. These incidents [...]
Judges’ appointments
1 March, 2010SUPREME Court Bar Association President Qazi Anwar has said that the lawyers’ community would stop Parliament from putting the power of appointment of judges in the hands of politicians. Addressing a press conference here on Friday, Qazi Anwar was also scathing about those who had kept national wealth in accounts in Spain and Switzerland. He [...]
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