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Allow me to share the following real heart warming feat of a Pakistani in a remote area in building Pakistan sent to me by a friend. How I wish we all could emulate his great example?!
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Hajj Under Debt by Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)
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22/Jun/2013
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As the nitty gritty of the budget and the monetary affairs of Pakistan are being discussed threadbare daily over the media by the financial pundits and economic gurus, it has transpired that the state of our economy couldn’t be worse and we would have to go once again to the IMF with the begging bowl for a loan of 5 billion dollars to survive. According to these financial whiz kids we Pakistanis a
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Ghilaf e Ka’ba by Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)
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22/Jun/2013
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Believe it or not an ad with the picture has appeared on page-4, centre extreme right column in today’s Jang offering two pieces of Ghalaf e Ka’ba, made with about 4 kilos of gold for sale. The asking price (hadiya) is Rs. 4 crores! The ad reads that the pieces are being sold due to an urgent need for money.
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Ziarat Residency by Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)
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22/Jun/2013
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It was indeed shocking and agonising to see the historic residency reduced to the ashes and along with it the invaluable heritage and many a rare memorabilia of the Father of the Nation lost to the nation for ever. As if the agony was not enough that to add salt to the injury some sycophant newspaper came up with a headline that Ch. Nisar has ordered to restore the residency to its original form
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Butler in Public by Lt Col S. Riaz Jafri (Retd)
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10/Jun/2013
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During the recent swearing in ceremonies of the PM and others being televised live, I noticed a senior army officer pushing the chair for a dignitary, which took me back in years to1954. Allow me to narrate it in some detail:It was the first re-union of the Corps of Pakistan Signals, in March 1954, and the finals of the Inter Regimental Hockey were being played at the GHQ Signals Regiment Rawalp
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Crime and Punishment: by Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)
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5/Jun/2013
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Most culprits escape punishments from courts due to lack of evidence or the prosecution not doing their job proficiently. Consequently not a single terrorist has been punished so far and this fact alone is contributing a great deal in the lawlessness of Karachi. The prosecutors and the judges have to do their jobs better, but speaking realistically they too have their problems. Police, apart from
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Successful Politicians by Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)
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31/May/2013
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Churchill while defining politics and politicians had said that a successful politician was the one who promised moon and stars to his electorate before the elections and after being elected to the power could explain to them as to why he couldn’t do all that he had promised. MNS has certainly grown up to qualify for that category of successful politicians. He has so far taken to explain
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Gujrat Tragedy by Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)
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27/May/2013
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entirely agree with Rauf Klasra who on a tv talk show held the DPO and the DC Gujrat entirely responsible for the most tragic and untimely death of 16 very young innocent school going children and their outstandingly brave lady teacher, all burnt alive in the inferno of a van that got engulfed in fire due to the exploding of its substandard gas cylinder. The standard safety specifications for th
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