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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Downsize Kar Kay Geo?

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Even as Geo has hired some new faces, such as Dr Shahista Wahidi - at a salary well in excess of Rs. 20 million lakhs a month - and rehir...
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Monday, October 11, 2010

National Asses

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I don't know if you people have been following the whole Royal Palm Golf and Country Club saga, wherein massive irregularities and corr...
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Sunday, October 10, 2010

Who's Afraid of Pervez Musharraf?

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I'm no supporter of Pervez Musharraf the politician but the reaction to his announcement to formally re-enter politics is really border...
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Layoffs at Aaj, Promotions at DawnNews, Hiring at PTV

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Aaj TV is going through quite a shake-up after the news of Talat Hussain 's notice to leave the struggling channel. This past Saturday,...
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Saturday, October 9, 2010

Picture of the Day

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No words necessary.
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Friday, October 8, 2010

Rent Boys

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It's late. I am tired. So I'm not going to write a proper post. But I still want to put this clip out there, for people to see and h...
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Thursday, October 7, 2010

What You Get When You Mix Sports With Politics

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Watch this clip involving Bolivian president Evo Morales playing an exhibition football match this past weekend: According to the repo...
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Tuesday, October 5, 2010

What the Hell Do Lawyers Really Want?

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To be honest, I was always very ambivalent about the Lawyers' Movement , even in 2007. Unlike many of my friends and colleagues (many of...
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Media Musical Chairs

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There is such a frenetic game of musical chairs going on in the media these days that we can hardly keep up. So we decided to just do a shor...
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Monday, October 4, 2010

Pakistani Protesters, Raise Your Game?

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Some of you might already have seen this but, for me, the protest of the day award goes to…The NiqaBitches , two French students whose take ...
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How Pathetically Low Can You Go? (Updated)

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A picture has been doing the rounds on email purporting to show the debauchery of Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Aslam Raisani . It shows...
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Sunday, October 3, 2010

A League of Their Own

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A spectre is haunting Pakistan - the spectre of yet another political party. It promises to bring about (yet more) "fundamental change ...
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Thursday, September 30, 2010

Blowing Up A Story

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The Commonwealth Games (CWG) about to begin in New Delhi in the next couple of days have received plenty of bad press, and most of it quit...
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The Hypocrisy Stakes

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For those of you who (rightfully) never tire of running Geo / ARY down for their positions at the head of a particularly irrational class of...
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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

The Curious Case of the 'Concocted' Confession

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Imagine my surprise when Monday night I saw a news item on Geo which began with the anchors heaping scorn on the Indian media for following...
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Pakistan Today, In A Couple of Days?

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We're hearing that Pakistan Today - former The Nation editor Arif Nizami's long-awaited new daily with the financial backing of P...
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Sunday, September 26, 2010

...Condemned to Repetition

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Came across this British film newsreel from early 1960 about Pakistan and specifically General Ayub Khan 's plans for the country he ha...
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Friday, September 24, 2010

More Breaking (Away) News

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We have confirmed that Aaj TV 's Executive Director News and Current Affairs, and host of his own show, Syed Talat Hussain , has put in ...
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