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Pakistan: Has the People’s Revolution Arrived?

Posted on31. Dec, 2011 by .

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Biggest Rally ever

NOTES FROM A SOCIAL SCIENTIST By Dr. Haider Mehdi “Can those who can see be equal to those who cannot?” – Al Qur’an. Today’s most important question is: Has the people’s revolution arrived in Pakistan? Indeed, Imran Khan’s promised “tsunami” hit the Karachi shores on Quaid-e-Azam’s birthday at Quaid’s ‘mizaar’ – a symbolic re-birth of Quaid’s [...]

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Telling Lies in Democratic Pakistan!

Posted on11. Oct, 2011 by .

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NOTES FROM A SOCIAL SCIENTIST By Dr. Haider Mehdi Ey parto khurshid jehan-tab idher bi Siye ki tarh, hum pay ajab waqt para hai (O World-illuminating Sun! Cast your splendor here (on us, in this direction) too;  A strange time, like a shadow, has come upon us)                                                           Ghalib – Translation,  Aijaz Ahmad The Urdu [...]

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We Must Stop America Now!

Posted on28. Sep, 2011 by .

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Pakistan is resilient to fight to the last man

By Dr. Haider Mehdi On November 18, 1999, immediately after General Pervez Musharraf took over the helm of affairs in Pakistan, this columnist (Dr. Haider Mehdi) wrote a personal letter to him. The following is an extract from that letter. Consider the enormous accuracy of the predication of the political-military fallouts made over a decade [...]

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Pakistan’s Summer of Hell!

Posted on01. Sep, 2011 by .

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Killings of Hazara Baloch in Karachi

NOTES FROM A SOCIAL SCIENTIST Pakistan’s Summer of Hell! By Dr. Haider Mehdi “ ‘What’s happening to this country. I thought I knew the place, but I no longer do. We had the bad days…Then they tole us it was now a free country. (Democracy) will bring us peace…Is this what a free country looks [...]

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Pakistan: Understanding People’s Revolution

Posted on25. Aug, 2011 by .

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By Dr Haider Mehdi:
What we need now for our future survival, political inventions, and visionary initiatives is a leadership tailored on the model of “Qalandari and Qalandaranah” – bold, undaunted, free-thinking, selfless, full of personal integrity and credibility, dedicated wholeheartedly to serving the people and answerable to those who elect them.

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PAKISTAN: The Prophet of Mendacity

Posted on29. May, 2011 by .

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By Dr Haider Mehdi:
Western hypocrisy is so obvious, dubious, and blatant now, thanks in part to global information resourcefulness, that a debate on the issue is simply a waste of time. Western political ideological objectives have become so intense and demanding, in fact obtrusive, that their capacity to participate even in a symbolic act of human reconciliation seems a fraudulent attempt at some kind of political deceit.

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Pakistan: The Art of Political Absurdity

Posted on02. Mar, 2011 by .

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By Dr Haider Mehdi:
Take for instance the banners welcoming a federal minister (who is rated low in public esteem) that the new Punjab’s Governor hung on the Mall road all the way from GPO to Governor’s House. The Governor’s House main entrance in itself looks like an advertisement for a cheap theatre (rather, a circus) with its undignified billboards, welcome banners and posters. The point is all of this political triviality is of no significance: People in this country are not interested in this kind of charade of appalling flattery, not any more.

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Egypt: Now the Ultimate Battle!

Posted on22. Feb, 2011 by .

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By Dr. Haider Mehdi:
What the US-West did for the newly independent nations was to install military dictatorships, promote reactionary and repressive indigenous political leaderships, plant non-government organizations to impact national domestic policies, introduce financial global institutions to streamline financial management to their own advantage, interfere in domestic politics through aid packages, furnish military aid in the form of equipment and training, undertake ineffective and stagnant conflict-resolution management (take for example Palestine, Kashmir, etc.)

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Pakistan: Not in our name, Mr Prime Minister!

Posted on01. Feb, 2011 by .

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By Dr Haider Mehdi:
Unmindful of the fact that a mere change in the lexicon and terminology does not alter the nature of the reality of the lethal consequences of war that is inflicting terror on this nation and its citizens, the Pakistani image-makers are now trying to hide behind meaningless and empty words. How far can a political absurdity be extended?

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Support the Victims-Save The Country!

Posted on01. Jan, 2011 by .

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By Dr Haider Mehdi:
So, given the political ground realities, what should the newly constituted Foundation for Fundamental Rights do? First and foremost is the need for the FFR to organize a massive campaign to legally challenge the present regime in Islamabad in the Supreme Court of Pakistan on the constitutional violations of conducting a foreign policy that allows a foreign power to wage an open war against its citizens.

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