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Saturday 21 June 2014 08.01 pm It is 08.01 pm Saturday 21 June 2014; time when now post offices are closed and no question at all of any post mail receipt now. It is this moment complete one month when last month 22 May 2014 His Excellency Mohammad Sarwar Chaudhry, Governor Punjab, addressed...

I was a then a small kid when Quaid-e-Azam was the leader of Pakistan. I know just through reading only that people truly loved him. In my life first I saw Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto whose followers blindly trusted him and loved. Though there were thousands of thousands who truly loved Benazir but...

Since almost a year every evening one hears heated debate on T.V channels if our Government and the “Establishment” was on one-page or otherwise. Both the two arguments since always are equally heavy, the silent majority can’t form a true conclusion. One thing, however, of course, has no...

The ever increasing good governance not merely always surprises me but often releases a bit tightness from my tight nerves. Every one of us knows that it is rightly believed that a little joke or an abrupt smile refreshes you. Today 28 July 2009 surfing the Sindh Ombudsman web site under the...

Noble Mr. Ardeshir Cowasjee, a real ombudsman of the citizens own and in practical the protector of Karachities rights, in his latest column Gizri Flyover, has mentioned in his column about 320 feet wide Sharah-i-Noor in North Nazimabad etc. He in fact wanted to show how the previous rulers...

The debate who has the mastermind of 12 May 2007 chaos in Karachi is going on. Not in full open words majority try to pin it to MQM while MQM claiming its own members died on 12 May blames others. As far as killing of own people is concerned it is fact in politics sometime for tactical reasons...

The government has appointed an Ambassador at Large particularly for Overseas Pakistanis (OPs). Likewise in its own wisdom the Government separating the one Ministry has made two separate Ministries namely one as Ministry of Labour & Manpower and second one as a new as Ministry of Overseas...

His Lordship Mr. Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday took a suo moto note on the column from the senior intellectual Mr. Irshad Ahmad Haqqani appealing the SC to take note of miseries of the telephone subscribers. He inter alia specified how a number dialed to a doctor goes to the Municipality...

On the appointment of Dr. Shoaib Suddle as the Tax Ombudsman a few letters have appeared raising eye brows as to why a Cop has been appointed on a specific professional assignment which is as a matter of principle domain of Judges. Appreciating Dr. Suddle’s Ph.D in criminology and his reading...

According to the newspaper reports last month 48 years old record of Board of Intermediate & Second Education Hyderabad "got" burnt in the fire. For the last two three years fires in government offices in mysterious timings eg in National Shipping twice on Sundays only, have become a routine on...

On the background of recent 18-36 hours complete black out in Karachi, the noble and most honourable Mr. Ardeshir Cowasjee explaining what is the role of regulatory body National Electric Power Regulatory Authority and how through big press public notices it invites all concerned to file their...

Yesterday a friend over a cup of tea narrated amongst friends his too sorry a story which to me was not merely a crucial national joke but also contributed to those who like our present rulers sarcastically with half open mouth say that since judiciary was today independent why people come to...

A Pakistani has approached the Court praying for allowing him to donate his kidney to a Saudi national. Dr. Farhat Mozam, Centre of Biomedical Ethics and Culture (SUIT) Karachi commenting on it has raised two issues. The first he rightly doubts that this is a “donation” case to which I fully...

Some readers have much appreciated the newly PTA introduced system of SIM activation. Tow weeks back a research oriented Survey from one leading English newspaper stated that within minutes of activation of one's SIM even before the female subscribers could inform their mobile numbers to their...

Overseas Pakistanis Foundation (OPF) now a days is sending Forms for collecting data of Pakistanis working abroad. Keep in mind it is addressing through emails. The purpose as OPF wants us to believe is “to serve“ the OPs community in a better way after collection of data. Many of our...

The Electricity Account 0707706450013 Consumer No: AL-148880 is of my residence. The latest January 2009 Bill shows meter reading taken on 10 January showing Present at 26275 and Previous at 26275. The 250 units have been charged at Rs. 1300/-. The Bill date is 28 January whereas today...

The Sindh Government web home page displays an item dated Feb 13, 2009 entitled "Government mulling legislation to allocate seats for Overseas Pakistanis in NA". It narrates brief of a Dubai held a conference about Overseas Pakistanis (OPs) attended by H.E Pakistani Ambassador at Large, H.E...

There are only two columnists in Pakistan whom I respect from deep inside of my heart and sometime I practically include their names in my prayers. They, since I started properly reading newspapers late 60s have written voluminous which as usual felt on deaf ears for whom those were pen down but...

Dr. Farooq Sattar after taking over as Minister for Overseas Pakistanis in his first statement stated that remittances from Overseas Pakistanis (OPs) will increase as the government was taking steps to achieve it including sending more workforce abroad. His statement surely is based on summary...

I had been waiting for weeks that regular senior columnists Nazir Naji, high respected honest scholars like Dr. Israr Ahmed or regular letter writers like Col. Riaz Jafri etc would open their lips and pen on a most serious topic but after much awaiting perforce this common man, a clerk not any...