sana l. posted an article on I love to Write, Therefore I blog - Feb 7, 2012, 12:44 pm
Why not just write the letter? KARACHI: This is with reference to Fauzia Wahab’s article of February 7, titled “The trial of her grave”. If there is no case against Benazir Bhutto and Asif Ali Zardari why is there so much resistance to writing the letter to the Swiss court that the Supreme Cou...
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sana l. posted an article on I love to Write, Therefore I blog - Feb 7, 2012, 12:40 pm
Teach Urdu first This is with reference to the news item ‘Chinese to be introduced in the country: Firdous’ (February 5). In the same day’s paper, Ghazi Salahuddin writes in his column titled ‘Fallen between headlines’ “as many as 58 percent children in the country cannot read a sentence...
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sana l. posted an article on I love to Write, Therefore I blog - Jan 31, 2012, 12:11 am
Without taxes This is with reference to Mumtaz Bhutto’s article ‘Hollow talk of democracy’ (January 25). According to him, no taxes are levied in Singapore. I’ve heard this from others as well. Obviously, there is some misunderstanding here, because no state can exist without taxes. In Singa...
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sana l. posted an article on I love to Write, Therefore I blog - Jan 25, 2012, 2:28 am
Cancellation of licence KARACHI: In his recent interview which was shown on several television channels, our ‘popular’ president categorically stated that he would order the cancellation of the licence given to Air Indus (the airline said to be owned by his sister Faryal Talpur). However, in a n...
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sana l. posted an article on I love to Write, Therefore I blog - Jan 17, 2012, 3:51 am
Why remake Pakistan? In his article, ‘Why remake Pakistan?’ (Jan 14) Ameer Bhutto says, “Besides, if administrative efficiency is the only concern, then smaller administrative units already exist in the form of divisions and districts. All that is needed is to enhance their authority and furth...
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sana l. posted an article on I love to Write, Therefore I blog - Jan 10, 2012, 6:12 am
President’s interview There were so many other questions which Hamid Mir could have asked President Zardari. For example, why is it that the rupee always depreciates so much only in a PPP government? Why did his government do nothing to prevent what the president called the ‘weakening of PIA, th...
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sana l. posted an article on I love to Write, Therefore I blog - Jan 10, 2012, 6:10 am
Missing containers KARACHI: This is with reference to the news item “FBR files a dozen more references in missing containers scam” in your issue of January 6. While appreciating the Federal Board of Revenue’s efforts to punish those involved in the scam, I would like to know why goods meant fo...
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sana l. posted an article on I love to Write, Therefore I blog - Jan 6, 2012, 6:06 am
Does anyone care? This is with reference to the news item ‘Brother of MPA gunned down in Karachi’ (December 31, 2011). After Prof Saleem Ahmed Kharal’s murder, who was the brother of PPP lawmaker Naeem Ahmed Kharal in a car-snatching attempt, perhaps the ruling party will devote some attention...
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sana l. posted an article on I love to Write, Therefore I blog - Dec 30, 2011, 6:06 am
Mr Jinnah’s ‘grandson’ Sir: I was shocked to see on a private television channel a man by the name of Muhammad Aslam Jinnah claiming to be Mr Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s ‘nawaasa’ (maternal grandson). The man was speaking flawless Urdu and was treated like a VIP by the anchor and others presen...
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sana l. posted an article on I love to Write, Therefore I blog - Dec 27, 2011, 4:09 am
KARACHI: The prime minister should have immediately accepted Firdous Ashiq Awan’s resignation as information minister. Instead, the government should have appointed Veena Malik as information minister since she would probably be able to do a far better job than all those who have preceded her. Sha...
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sana l. posted an article on I love to Write, Therefore I blog - Dec 26, 2011, 5:36 am
Crisis in Pakistan 26 December 2011 This is in response to the editorial, ‘Crisis in Pakistan’ (Dec 25). If the present government had devoted its attention towards improving the lot of the people, rather than trying to stay put in power, it wouldn’t have found itself in such a precarious sit...
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sana l. posted an article on I love to Write, Therefore I blog - Dec 22, 2011, 2:39 am
Karachi DHA affairs I have long been convinced that there are government officials whose only job is to find new ways of wasting our tax money. Take Karachi’s DHA, for instance. Here, for the past week, road dividers on many roads are being demolished and new ones are being built to replace them. ...
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sana l. posted an article on I love to Write, Therefore I blog - Dec 22, 2011, 2:34 am
Rampant bank robberies This is with reference to your editorial ‘Rampant bank robberies’ (Dec 15). Your query about what good is the taxpayer-funded police force if it cannot track down the criminals despite the clear CCTV footage. I think you are being rather too harsh on the police force, one...
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sana l. posted an article on I love to Write, Therefore I blog - Dec 16, 2011, 8:14 am
Population: male-female ratio THIS is with reference to the letter ‘Population bomb and social maladies’ by Abaidur Rehman (Dec 13). According to the writer, one reason for over-population is ‘gender preference in favour of a male child.’ This is not always so. I have worked with Baloch and...
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sana l. posted an article on I love to Write, Therefore I blog - Nov 1, 2011, 1:48 pm
NICL again With reference to your editorial ‘NICL again’ (October 27), even if all your questions have answers, nothing can be done. Even if the Supreme Court takes action against the DG FIA and sentences him to a term in jail, the president has the power to pardon the convict (as he did in the ...
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sana l. posted an article on I love to Write, Therefore I blog - Oct 27, 2011, 2:59 am
Breaking rules There was a time when men of integrity had nothing to fear, unlike now when people like Pervez Ali Shah (the courageous judge who sentenced a killer to death) are forced to leave their posts. Why have we sunk to this level? Shouldn’t the lawyers who ransacked his room be penalised? ...
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sana l. posted an article on I love to Write, Therefore I blog - Oct 24, 2011, 2:12 pm
I don't think anyone in the Peoples' Party has any idea about the loss suffered by the country when everything shuts down for the day. We already had too many off-days due to strikes. Then some genius in the government thought that a five-day working week would save a lot of electricity, even though...
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sana l. posted an article on I love to Write, Therefore I blog - Oct 14, 2011, 6:22 am
In 1970, I received an invitation from people living in what was then a suburb of Karachi (Gizri). The host was a Baloch, and the wedding card did not have the name of any woman on it, not even that of the bride. It simply said that Mr. So and So was going to be married on Sunday, and the parents of...
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sana l. posted an article on I love to Write, Therefore I blog - Oct 7, 2011, 7:39 am
US aid to Pakistan over the last 10 years has been two billion dollars a year, which translates into around 12 dollars for every Pakistani. Compare this with American aid to Israel (three billion dollars a year), which amounts to 375 dollars for every Israeli (Israel's population is eight million). ...
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sana l. posted an article on I love to Write, Therefore I blog - Oct 2, 2011, 3:47 am
There's this law of compensation in Pakistan which allows you to kill (or get killed) anyone in the country and get away with it. Let's say that you're one of those feudals who have been brought up to believe that they're above the law. Let's assume that your father is already a very old man and ref...
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sana l. posted an article on I love to Write, Therefore I blog - Oct 2, 2011, 3:40 am
Faulty traffic signals AFTER the recent heavy rains in Karachi, almost all traffic signals in the DHA have stopped working. As a result, there is complete chaos, since every driver in Pakistan thinks he is above the law and refuses to stop his vehicle, unless there is a traffic policeman at the sign...
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sana l. posted an article on I love to Write, Therefore I blog - Sep 24, 2011, 5:21 am
Targeting security officials — III Sir: Just last week I told my friend in the US that I live in the most peaceful locality (Phase 8, DHA) in Karachi, as no terrorist activity had ever taken place there. I was proved wrong by the carnage that destroyed many houses and killed eight innocent people ...
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sana l. posted an article on I love to Write, Therefore I blog - Sep 20, 2011, 6:27 am
Raising revenue In an effort to raise government revenue, the FBR has made it mandatory for manufacturers and importers to provide CNIC numbers of those buyers who are not registered with the income tax department. Although on paper it appears to be an excellent step, it may in fact turn out to be c...
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sana l. posted an article on I love to Write, Therefore I blog - Sep 19, 2011, 4:35 am
Back in 1960, most of my friends either took up engineering or medicine (one of them also went for commerce and became a highly successful chartered accountant). I slogged for the next five years to become an engineer, and I can't say that I was a good one. I'd have made a good accountant or a profe...
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sana l. posted an article on I love to Write, Therefore I blog - Sep 9, 2011, 4:33 am
Teaching Chinese Only the Sindh government could think of wasting taxpayers’ hard-earned money on making children learn Chinese in schools. I have always suspected that those who run the Sindh government are somehow mentally deficient and this new decision has reinforced my belief. My children had...
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sana l. posted an article on I love to Write, Therefore I blog - Sep 6, 2011, 12:49 pm
Moon sighting This is with reference to the news item ‘Ruet-e-Hilal body should accept evidence from KP, says governor’ in The News (September 3). I would like to ask the learned KP governor why Mualana Popalzai always announces the sighting of the moon more than three hours after sunset and tha...
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sana l. posted an article on I love to Write, Therefore I blog - Sep 4, 2011, 2:10 pm
Duplicating credit cards At first I thought I was dreaming. I had got up at four in the morning to prepare for the nineteenth fast of the holy month when I saw on my cell phone that I had received seven messages from my credit card bank, informing me that I had used my credit card to bu...
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sana l. posted an article on I love to Write, Therefore I blog - Aug 21, 2011, 5:00 am
Carnage in Karachi The PPP-led government is responsible for the situation in Karachi. I pass the house of Dr Zulfiqar Mirza twice a day and I see that there are usually six police mobile vans with at least 25 policemen guarding his house. No doubt all the other Sindh government ministe...
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sana l. posted an article on I love to Write, Therefore I blog - Aug 18, 2011, 5:41 am
Strikes By now it should be perfectly clear to everyone that a strike call is followed by burning of vehicles and killings of innocent people on the evening before the day of the strike. So, even a moron would immediately take steps to protect lives and property as soon as a strike call...
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sana l. posted an article on I love to Write, Therefore I blog - Aug 18, 2011, 5:28 am
I know there are morons in every country in the world. But in Pakistan there are so many that I think there must be a school or college somewhere in the country which turns men into idiots. Or maybe it's in our genes. This country, after all, is known for 80 percent of its citizens suffering from so...
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sana l. posted an article on I love to Write, Therefore I blog - Aug 10, 2011, 1:50 am
Women as equals Sir: This is with reference to your editorial, ‘Pervasive violence against women’ (Daily Times, August 8, 2011). We should not be surprised at policemen going berserk when they see bare-armed women. They have, after all, been brought up to believe that all unveiled a...
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sana l. posted an article on I love to Write, Therefore I blog - Aug 10, 2011, 1:48 am
More provinces are needed KARACHI: This is with reference to your editorial “The debate for more provinces” (August 5). There is no need to be worried about division of provinces on linguistic or ethnic basis in a real democracy. In India, for instance, Bombay was divided into Mahar...
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sana l. posted an article on I love to Write, Therefore I blog - Aug 10, 2011, 1:46 am
Lahore’s growing Talibanisation KARACHI: Why should we be surprised? This police official has, in all likelihood, been brought up to believe that all working women are agents of the devil. We should be thankful he did not kill the poor curator. As for art, Pakistanis have heard all t...
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sana l. posted an article on I love to Write, Therefore I blog - Aug 1, 2011, 3:45 am
Another conspiracy Indian President Pratibha Patil has declared her total assets, being the first president in the world to do so. Obviously this is a heinous Indian conspiracy to force our president to declare his assets. I urge our president not to fall into this trap. Shakir Lakhani Karachi Publ...
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sana l. posted an article on I love to Write, Therefore I blog - Aug 1, 2011, 3:42 am
Trade accord with Afghanistan THIS refers to the news item ‘Rs50 billion revenue lost in missing containers’ (July 26). Even though it has been evident for a long time that goods imported by Afghan traders almost always never reach the border but are dumped in Pakistani towns. The FBR has postp...
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sana l. posted an article on I love to Write, Therefore I blog - Jul 28, 2011, 3:47 am
Gas theft According to a news item, Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Dr Asim Hussain told the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Petroleum and Natural Resources that there is no particular law to deal with gas theft cases in Pakistan. This amazing remark will only encourage more...
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sana l. posted an article on I love to Write, Therefore I blog - Jul 28, 2011, 3:18 am
There was a time when you could find intelligent people in Pakistan. In those early years after independence, bureaucrats knew everything about what they had to do. Federal and provincial ministers were knowledgeable about their subjects. Gradually there was deterioration in the quality of civil ser...
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sana l. posted an article on I love to Write, Therefore I blog - Jul 27, 2011, 4:05 am
Punishing the corrupt Two Chinese officials are reported to have been sentenced to death for bribery and corruption. Will our corrupt officials ever get the death penalty? I don’t think so. In fact, considering a few recent examples, it seems they will be allowed to loot and plunder without ever b...
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sana l. posted an article on I love to Write, Therefore I blog - Jul 27, 2011, 3:53 am
Let me make it very clear at the outset: I am against the death penalty. In an undeveloped country like Pakistan, the likelihood of an innocent man being hanged is much greater than such a thing happening in the U.K., where a Muslim was executed and the real killer confessed to the murder many years...
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sana l. posted an article on I love to Write, Therefore I blog - Jul 22, 2011, 6:33 am
Parking at Clifton Centre Sir, This is with reference to the news item ‘Underground car park planned at Baradari’ in Dawn’s Metropolitan section on June 24. The Sindh minister for local government has been quoted as saying that except for the Faizee Rahimeen Art Gallery, parking charges in the...
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sana l. posted an article on I love to Write, Therefore I blog - Jul 13, 2011, 3:29 am
Who represents India? This is with reference to the article ‘Who speaks for India – Gandhi or Modi?’ by Aijaz Zaka Syed (July 6). The writer says, “It may be time for those silent multitudes to speak up and speak out against the rape of justice and rule of law that is going on in Narendra Mo...
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sana l. posted an article on I love to Write, Therefore I blog - Jul 13, 2011, 3:09 am
I don't think Indian Hindus living in Northern India will ever forgive Muslims for dividing their country in 1947. Since Partition, India has tried its best to dismember Pakistan. It succeeded in 1971 by invading East Pakistan and creating Bangladesh (where the vast majority harbours an intense hatr...
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sana l. posted an article on I love to Write, Therefore I blog - Jul 7, 2011, 3:34 am
I've always known that most religious extremists are mentally unstable, and this was borne out by a recent survey which found that in some regions of Pakistan, about 80% of the people suffer from psychiatric diseases. So I was not surprised to hear the chief of a leading religious-political party ad...
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sana l. posted an article on I love to Write, Therefore I blog - Jul 4, 2011, 4:11 am
Large scale gas load shedding Sir: The government has decided to increase gas prices and introduce gas load shedding. I really cannot understand why we should be surprised at the increase in the price of gas and the resultant load shedding. We, the honest consumers of electricity and gas, are being ...
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sana l. posted an article on I love to Write, Therefore I blog - Jul 3, 2011, 1:44 pm
Tough measures for tax evaders Transparency THIS refers to the news item ‘Hafeez vows to go after tax dodgers’ (June 18). It was heartening to know that the finance minister urges legislators and others to ‘cough up’ and pay their taxes. But it would have been much better if he had disclosed...
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sana l. posted an article on I love to Write, Therefore I blog - Jul 1, 2011, 2:59 am
Tax and assets This is with reference to your editorial ‘Tax and assets’ (June 20). You have rightly pointed out that “many of the assets as declared by MPAs are probably grossly undervalued.” The lawmakers may have their own reasons for not declaring the correct values of their properties; ...
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sana l. posted an article on I love to Write, Therefore I blog - Jun 29, 2011, 2:44 am
I think the aversion to pay tax is universal, but among Pakistanis the evasion of income tax is probably the highest in the world, perhaps even more than in India. Income tax was introduced by the British (along with central excise duty) to raise funds for the development of the subcontinent. A reli...
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sana l. posted an article on I love to Write, Therefore I blog - Jun 27, 2011, 1:59 am
Afghanistan-Pakistan transit trade Sir: This is with reference to the news item, ‘End to misuse of APTTA’ (Daily Times, June 17, 2011). Something is horribly wrong with this country. The original Afghan-Pakistan Transit Trade Agreement (APPTA) stipulated that Afghan importers would submit bank g...
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sana l. posted an article on I love to Write, Therefore I blog - Jun 27, 2011, 1:57 am
Dearth of power This is with reference to your editorial ‘Dearth of power’ (June 20). The power problem will never be solved because more than half of the electricity produced is stolen. The electricity thieves are used to getting free electricity and it seems difficult that they will agree to p...
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