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February’s B-side will provide hope and pain in equal measure. The first article will bring readers endless joy, the second by Fatima Bhutto and will bring some pain as does the final article by Peter Preston. February’s B-side contents are: Saluting Ali Moeen Nawazish by WASIM ARIF Pleasing Mr Obama by FATIMA BHUTTO Truckling to [...]

My views on the so-called ineligibilty of the Sharif brothers is  captured above, need I say more? That said I will say at least this, that it is a wicked verdict coming from the canine Dog(gar) court. The judgement was authored by Mr 10% though it does bear the pawprint of the dog sorry Dog(gar) [...]

The people of Swat and the legend that is Ahmed Faraz are never far from my thoughts. After the death and destruction engineered by the maniac Mullah, hope hangs in the air and at the mercy of the gun-toting goons of Fazlullah. The words of the great Ahmed Faraz in his nazm‘ Mat Qatl Karo [...]

The brave people of Swat are smiling again after the government negotiated a deal with Sufi Mohammed, the chief of the Tanzim Nifaz Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM) to implement Nizam-e-Adl in Swat and the wider Malakand division. The TSNM under the leadership of Sufi Mohammed has led a peace rally to Swat and it was a picture [...]

More than a week has passed since the tragic death of the brilliant journalist and commentator Khalid Hasan. I feel the loss personally as reading Khalid Hasan’s Postcard USA column in the Daily Times was a regular Sunday treat of mine. Every Sunday I would religiously follow a rigid routine that involved reading numerous blogs [...]

The title of this post is inspired by the title of a John Pilger documentary  titled ‘Palestine is still the issue’. Unlike John Pilger who has worked tirelessly for the Palestinian people, all I can do for my Swati brothers and sisters is to fulminate from the confines of this website. The News newspaper deserves [...]