Archive for the 'Blog' Category

Electing Mai Jori Jamali

March 9th, 2010

Mai Jori Jamali is making big news in Pakistan, and for all the right reasons. Mai Jori Jamali has decided to stand in the bye-election for PB-25 Jaffarabad-1. What makes her candidature newsworthy and even inspiring is her bio-data and the fact that she is an ordinary citizen who seeks only to improve and serve Pakistan.
Mai Jori  is the [...]

Goodbye Brother Gai Eaton

March 2nd, 2010

The great Hasan Charles Le Gai Eaton is no more. The man mountain who inspired millions of Muslims to find God in their lives has departed to his eternal abode in heaven. Brother Gai Eaton as I fondly called him, is, was and will remain forever an inspiration to me personally as it was his book Islam [...]

February 2010’s B-side

February 27th, 2010

February’s B-side goes beyond the constant headache of Afghanistan and brings into focus Pakistan-India relations. Kashmir is king in the B-side as it should be more often. False accusations that border on deliberate lies against Pakistan are tackled too, and tackled head-on with February 2010’s B-side contents including:

Lets Refocus Kashmir, not Kabul by DOUG SAUNDERS
Taking [...]

The Forgotten Pakistani Students

February 26th, 2010

Courtesy of Stop the Deportation of Pakistani Students
Haji Hazrat Ali shows a photo of his son Muhammed who was arrested on terrorism charges in the UK many moons ago. Unfortunately the Pakistani students issue and their continued incarceration in the UK is yesterday’s news. In a Pakistan bedevilled daily by death and destruction, the Pakistani students who [...]

President Zardari Shuts Up

February 20th, 2010

Readers will know that President Zardari in line with the esteemed office he holds, issued a shut up call in a public speech as shared below:

It is poetic justice that today the President himself has been forced to shut up after his failed judicial coup. The President has been forced to shut up and silent is the [...]

Zardari’s Judicial Coup

February 14th, 2010

Pictures are said to say a thousand words, as they clearly do above. President Zardari is in dire of a prayer after the events of February 13. The sacrificial black lambs that are legendary in the confines of the Presidency, will be needed aplenty to ward off the evil and the folly of the President’s actions in [...]

Amnesia and Ansar Burney

February 11th, 2010

Amnesia as defined by the now legendary Wikipedia website, the fountain of no and all knowledge states that it is ’a condition in which memory is disturbed or lost’. It is with great regret that Other Pakistan informs readers that the legendary human rights hero Ansar Burney has succumbed to the condition and we ask readers to [...]

The Naveed Asif Story

February 4th, 2010

Good news stories from Pakistan are rare nowadays. The despair that haunts and stalks the ordinary Pakistani from Karachi to Khyber has many ugly faces and includes the fear of death and destruction as unleashed by the vile Taliban. Rampant inflation and loadshedding are two more gifts of the Gilani government and the list can go on and on. However in a desert [...]

January’s B-side

January 30th, 2010

January’s B-side is the first of a new year and of a new decade, yet its focus remains on issues historical, issues that have plagued Pakistan for decades. The two A’s of America and Afghanistan remain the key focus  for Pakistan as we enter 2010, a year in which the Obama surge is expected to [...]

The Guns of Gilani

January 26th, 2010

Breaking News: PM Gilani can actually govern Pakistan.
Yes I know its a shock for many readers to read the above statement and many will have fallen off their respective chairs by now. And so I will repeat the breaking news that the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani can actually govern!
The evidence of such a tall claim [...]