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* Protest for peace*!!
Various videos are in circulation on social media suggesting high handedness of the security apparatus operating in Swat that has resulted into the ongoing wave of protests by ordinary citizens.
In one such video, an undercover…
Swat situation : Is military operation needed again ?
The Switzerland of Asia is once again being projected in bad light like by vested elements who are exploiting and manipulating totally unrelated incidents in the recent past in Swat. It should be assessed that from becoming a hub of…
*Ablaze*!!
Exhausted and my energy run down by the last week's laborious running around that I slept like a log when Centaurus, the landmark building of Islamabad was ablaze. I wonder how my friend Sardar Tanvir Illyas, the incumbent Prime Minister of…
*The far pavilion*!!
The Afghans are a formidable race, who humbled many powers of their times, on their soil, to which history remains eye witness . The ANP leadership rightly claims, as identity and ancestry of all tribes of Pukhtuns of Pakistan to be…
*Pukhtunwali*!!
Well in old days this political slogan will inspire me Laila Watan Majnoon Wali Pukhtun Wali Pukhtun Wali( Beloved Homeland juliet Romeo Pukhtun Wali).
What is Pukhtun Wali, it is a code of honour and commitment by which all Pukhtuns…
*Sad News* !!
It is with heavy heart, I share the sad news of my Uncle Khan Aziz Sarfaraz Khan, passing away peacefully. He was father of my cousin Abbas Sarfaraz Khan, the former Federal Minister and another gem in the family after late Mir Afzal…
* Plunder of heritage ” !!
28th July 1969, heralded a new era in the history of Pakistan, when the former princely state of Swat was merged into Pakistan, opening floodgates of loot and plunder of its resources that just left its ugly scars on its beautiful landscape…
* Surrender * !!
My childhood hero the world reknowned Japanese wrestler Anoki, is no more. He was a skilled wrestler who had the audacity to challenge Muhammad Ali, the then world's heavy weight boxing champion, that ended in a draw and serious injuries to…
*Business leader*!!
Some people are good at heart others good to themselves but few good to others and amongst these very few is Muhammad Raziq, a true highlander from Hunza and most popular figure amongst the people of his area, in walnut shell a good man.…
* In Shambles *. !!
Based on my write - up, here comes comments of Honourable Dr Ali Jan, a brilliant young historian from Peshawar, who had immense contribution in the promotion of tourism in the terrorism stricken province of KPK. Two things failed us as a…
