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Balochistan News Letter – June 2013 by Usman Khalid
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Posted By:
Usman_Khalid
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3/Jul/2013
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Post Election Developments- Formation of New Government, 1- June. The newly elected MPAs were sworn in on Ist June. 20 MPAs, in a House of 65, had never before been its members. The party position is: PML(N) 16, PKMAP 14, NP 11, JUI(F) 8, PML(Q) 5 and one each of Jamot Qaumi Movement, Majlis Wahdat-ul-Muslimeen. Akhtar Mengal’s BNP(M)’s three members did not take the oath citing rigging in Electio
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Some things just don’t change by Tariq A. Al-Maeena
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TARIQA
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3/Jul/2013
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I remember watching the visit of King Abdullah to the Jeddah Airport directorate a few years ago on state TV. He was there to review the plans in progress to turn this pitiful airport into a state-of-the-art facility that would welcome guests from the world over. I also seem to recollect that when asked point-blank as to when this project would be completed, the airport director confidently replie
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Hydra headed monster by Asif Haroon Raja
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Asif_Haroon_Raja
On:
3/Jul/2013
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While it is a fact that Pakistan was created in the name of Islam, Pakistan’s leaders didn’t make it into an Islamic state in true sense because of battle between the seculars and Islamists. For all practical purposes, Pakistan has been administered on secular system while Islam has remained in name only. Except for Gen Ziaul Haq, all our leaders were endowed with secular bent of mind. The reason
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Salutes are to be Returned by Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)
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Posted By:
Riaz
On:
3/Jul/2013
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As young officers in the army we were taught that salutes were not to be acknowledged but to be returned. It is a sign of mutual respect for each other. However, I noticed that during the recent visits of the Prime Minister to Quetta and two days later to China some of the air crew of the PM’s special plane stood at attention at the foot of the airstair as per protocol and dutifully saluted him sm
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La ikkra fid-deen by Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)
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Posted By:
Riaz
On:
3/Jul/2013
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It is clearly and unambiguously ordained that there is no hardship in practicing deen. La ikkra fid-deen. Somehow I cannot reconcile to it when I see the month of Ramzan falling in the hot months of June & July when the daily fast is 16 to 17 hours long and the mercury touches 50 degrees plus in some parts of the world like Sibi, Jackobabad, Cholistan and Thar deserts, Multan, Bahawalpur and Rahi
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