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Lawyers Movement Gone Awry!

"If they demand that the Afghan refugees be returned to Afghanistan, we demand that they (the Urdu-speaking Karachi-ites) be sent back to India" so says Mr. Latif Afridi, the President of Peshawar Bar Association. This outrage from Peshawar followed the clashes between the lawyers in Karachi which were triggered by the violence of the lawless lawyers of Lahore earlier.



The lawyers movement started well and helped bring about a positive change in Pakistan as a manifestation of the… Continue

Added by Riaz Haq on April 14, 2008 at 6:20pm — No Comments

Indian Sports Flush With Money

Indian Sports Attract Big Money, Stars

By Riaz Haq

http://southasiainvestor.blogspot.com



As India's economy, business and industry experience rapid growth, large amounts of sponsorship dollars are flowing into the various sports including cricket, football and golf. At first, most of the attention was on the big cricket stars such as Sachin Tedulkar grossing million of dollars a year. Then came the Indian Cricket League(ICL) and Indian Premier League(IPL) drawing the… Continue

Added by Riaz Haq on April 13, 2008 at 8:32am — No Comments

Lawless Lawyers of Lahore

The criminal behavior of the lawyers in Lahore has shocked the nation and the world. They not only kidnapped and injured former federal minister Dr. Sher Afghan Niazi but they threw rocks and flattened the tires of the ambulance that was taking him to the hospital for treatment. Mr. Aitezaz Ahsan, the leader of the lawyers movement, has resigned from his position as the president of the Supreme Court Bar Association.



While some may be tempted to call it an isolated incident, the… Continue

Added by Riaz Haq on April 8, 2008 at 10:42am — 2 Comments

Benazir Bhutto's Life on Silver Screen

A Pakistani film company is rushing into the production of a movie based on the life of slain former premier Benazir Bhutto in collaboration with noted Indian filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt, according to a news report in Pakistan Link.



Given the multi-dimensional significance of Benzair Bhutto to Pakistan and the world, it is not surprising that Lollywood and Bollywood together see her as an interesting subject to put on the big screen. What is surprising is the following statement by… Continue

Added by Riaz Haq on April 7, 2008 at 9:32am — 1 Comment

US Poll: 81% Americans Unhappy

Eighty-one percent of Americans believe the US is headed in the wrong direction, says the latest NY Times/CBS poll conducted recently. This is the worst ever reading of dissatisfaction since this particular poll began in the 1990s. Although the public unhappiness has been rising since the early days of the Iraq war, it has taken a new turn for the worse in the last few months, as the economy has seemed to slip into recession. There is now nearly a national consensus that the country faces… Continue

Added by Riaz Haq on April 4, 2008 at 3:32pm — No Comments

A New Deal For Pakistan

The province of Sindh in southern Pakistan is a rural region of dusty mudbrick villages, of white-domed blue-tiled Sufi shrines, and of salty desert scrublands broken, quite suddenly, by floodplains of wonderful fecundity. These thin, fertile belts of green—cotton fields, rice paddies, cane breaks, and miles of checkerboard mango orchards—snake along the banks of the Indus River as it meanders its sluggish, silted, café-au-lait way through the plains of Pakistan down to the shores of the… Continue

Added by Riaz Haq on April 2, 2008 at 7:37am — 2 Comments

Gillani Addressing Wheat, Energy Crises

With global commodity prices and inflation hitting new highs, Pakistan and other emerging economies are faced with serious challenges. The rising inflation of staples such as wheat has already claimed Pakistan's former ruling coalition as a victim. Many other developing countries' governments are likely to fall as well unless these challenges are addressed effectively.



Knowing the importance of wheat for Pakistanis, the government of Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani has begun… Continue

Added by Riaz Haq on March 31, 2008 at 11:10am — No Comments

Iftikhar Chaudhry Is No Angel!

"Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry was not and is not an angel" said Mr. Muneer A. Malik, the President of the Pakistan Supreme Court Bar Association, during an interview with Philip Reeves of NPR radio broadcast in the United States last year. This interview took place in 2007 after President Musharraf sacked Mr. Chaudhry and Malik launched a campaign to restore Mr. Chaudhry.



While I strongly disagree with Mr. Musharraf's decision to fire Mr. Chaudhry, I am curious to find out what Mr.… Continue

Added by Riaz Haq on March 30, 2008 at 6:25pm — 4 Comments

Hijabs at Harvard Gym

by Ruth Marcus of The Washington Post

It's a measure of America's multicultural journey over the past half-century that we've gone from "God and Man at Yale" to Allah and Woman at Harvard.

In a contretemps scarcely imaginable in William F. Buckley's day, Harvard has closed one of its gyms to men for six hours a week so that Muslim women can exercise comfortably. "Sharia at Harvard," warned blogger Andrew Sullivan. A Harvard Crimson columnist blasted "Harvard's misguided… Continue

Added by Riaz Haq on March 27, 2008 at 4:00pm — 1 Comment

The New Prime Minister: Khadim or Makhdoom?

Makhdoom Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani has been elected and sworn in as the new prime minister of Pakistan. He won by a margin of 264 to 42.





The new prime minister belongs to an influential and spiritual shia family of Multan, born on June 9, 1952 in Karachi, Pakistan. His father was a descendant of Syed Musa Pak, a leading Sufi spiritual figure of Multan of the Qadiri Sufi Order of Shi'a Islam. Syed Musa Pak hailed from the Iranian… Continue

Added by Riaz Haq on March 25, 2008 at 4:00pm — 1 Comment

Presidential Address by Muhammad Ali Jinnah to Muslim League Lahore 1940



Ladies and Gentlemen:



[[1]] We are meeting today in our session after fifteen months. The last session of the All-India Muslim League took place at Patna in December 1938. Since then many developments have taken place. I shall first shortly tell you what the All-India Muslim League had to face after the Patna session of 1938. You remember that one of the tasks, which was imposed on us and which is far from completed yet, was to… Continue

Added by Ameer Alam on March 22, 2008 at 4:30pm — No Comments

The Prophet I Know

As the Muslim world celebrates the birthday of Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) today, it's important to remember his teachings and the life he lived to learn how to deal with the serious crises Muslims face today. Here is how I remember the Prophet I know from my reading about his life:



Secular Education:

The Prophet I know instructed Muslims to "go as far as China to seek knowledge". It was clear at the time that China was not a Muslim nation. It is therefore safe to… Continue

Added by Riaz Haq on March 21, 2008 at 9:44pm — No Comments

Concerted Campaign Against China

Concerted Campaign Against China

By Riaz Haq

www.riazhaq.com



With China's resurgence on the world stage and its hour of

well-deserved glory approaching at Beijing Olympics this summer, those

opposed to China are out in force to spoil it for the Chinese people.

The efforts to recruit athletes to stage protests in front of the news

media during the Olympics and the recent troubles in Tibet and Western

China do not appear to be spontaneous. The… Continue

Added by Riaz Haq on March 20, 2008 at 10:27am — 1 Comment

Dr Mohammad Iqbal's 1930 Presidential Address at Allahbad



Sir Muhammad Iqbal’s 1930 Presidential Address



to the 25th Session of the All-India Muslim League

Allahabad, 29 December 1930



*[[1]]* Islam and Nationalism

*[[2]]* The Unity of an Indian Nation

*[[3]]* Muslim India Within India

*[[4]]* Federal States

*[[5]]* Federation As Understood in the Simon Report

*[[6]]* Federal Scheme As Discussed in the Round Table Conference

*[[7]]* The… Continue

Added by Ameer Alam on March 18, 2008 at 1:30pm — 1 Comment

Fighting the Twin Crises of Inflation & Power Cuts

As Pakistanis suffer greatly from the twin crises of hyper inflation and prolonged, daily power cuts, the life for them is getting more and more difficult every day. The traditional approaches to solve these problems such as increasing governmental subsidies for food and fuel and building more conventional fossil-fuel based generating capacity are not likely to work cost-effectively and sustain ably in the long run. It is time for Pakistanis to explore creative options to find workable,… Continue

Added by Riaz Haq on March 18, 2008 at 7:00am — No Comments

Obama Under Fire For Pastor's Views

"We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye," Rev. Jeremiah Wright said in a sermon on Sept. 16, 2001. This is not all. Sen Barack Obama's pastor Rev Wright went on to touch the third rail of the American politics: He criticized the US support for Israel against the Palestinians.



"We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant… Continue

Added by Riaz Haq on March 15, 2008 at 12:10pm — No Comments

Insights into a Suicide Bombing in Pakistan

While Pakistani authorities have had little success in catching perpetrators in most of the bombings, there have been several arrests in a November suicide attack on a Pakistan Air Force bus near an air base in Sargodha, 120 miles west of Lahore.



According to Associated Press, the probe by police and intelligence agencies into the attack provides insight into how the NWFP-based militant groups function and shows they are attracting recruits in other regions and ethnic… Continue

Added by Riaz Haq on March 13, 2008 at 9:56am — No Comments

ist step of 25 engineering university's in Pakistan

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1 step at a time we are getting there,All the people who feel happy pl

make dua

with 1000 acres and $150 million the dream is coming into a reality



salim mastan









LOS ANGELES: The Friends Of Pakistan (FOP) has announced its support for the efforts of a group of expatriate Pakistanis to establish a new research oriented technical university of international standards with an accompanying technology park in Pakistan.



This… Continue

Added by salim mastan on March 11, 2008 at 12:39pm — No Comments

Malaysia's Ruling Coalition Suffers Setback

Malaysia's opposition made significant gains in Saturday's elections. The alliance of three opposition parties won 82 of 222 seats in the national Parliament, up from only 19 seats. By controlling one-third of Parliament, opposition parties will be able to block government efforts to amend the constitution. They also took control of five out of 13 states, up from one state previously. They included Penang, home to much of Malaysia's industrial base and to billions of dollars in U.S. and other… Continue

Added by Riaz Haq on March 10, 2008 at 10:12am — No Comments

A Tale of Two Indias: Forty Billionaires In A Poor Country

The booming Bombay stock market in 2007 and the benefits of globalization have seen India's billionaires list swell to 40 on the Forbes Billionaires List. The Indian billionaires combined wealth has more than doubled from $170 billion to $351 billion in 2007. While Bill Gates has slipped to number three spot from number one, the number 4, 5, 6 and 8 spots in the top 10 are now occupied by Lakshmi Mittal, Mukesh Ambani, Anil Ambani and KP Singh from India.



The news of the…

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Added by Riaz Haq on March 8, 2008 at 1:30pm — No Comments

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