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I am a common man, a senior citizen. During my whole 41 years service as a senior grade clerk I never earned even a single Rupee “Haram” hence out of my Rizq-e-Hial like majority could only save to invest in public shares @ 100 shares per selected company as a real domestic saver. During the...

If one goes seriously he will find that almost all the famous professional columnists are in fact very rich though in each of their column their words show as if they were just ordinary citizen like majority bitten by the poverty. Yesterday I was reading that in one gathering of the poets one...

PS: This was written in second week of October 2008 but due to physical reason is posted in February 2009 My family boarded Thursday evening 09 October 2008 for a foreign journey from Karachi International Airport. My family tells me it was really a very comfortable journey right from the...

PS: This was written in the second week of October 2008 but due to physical reasons is posted February 2009. My wife and child reported at Karachi International Airport for their flight last Thursday evening for their journey abroad. They had 2-3 pieces travel bags as their luggage...

I understand the internet also provides free fax service worldover. Though a technical Discussion Forum I came to know that the link TPC.INT: Send a fax can be used for sending free Faxes to Pakistan but this link never works. Can any body tell is there really any free online internet Fax...

KESC last month billed my residence Account No. 0707706450013 Consumer No. AL148880 for the month of November 2008 almost 2000 units in excess of the actual meter reading the day Bill was received. My too old father the subscriber went to KESC as usual to get advice submit an application which...

A welfare fund and an insurance scheme for Indian workers in the Gulf will top a key meeting by Indian Ambassador to the Guld to be held in New Delhi. A welfare fund to help those in distress is one of the projects. The Overseas Indian Affairs Ministry recently donated huge amounts to NGOs...

A Open Letter - Copy of my recent letter sent to Honourable Mr. Irshad Ahmad Haqqani This 75-80% blind senior citizen diabetic cannot write with pen hence just playing with keyboard with the help of magnifying glass hence with his apologies perforce submits in English. 2. You...

PIA MD Office recently on 9/11/2008 has issued a 12 point official clarification on the recent press criticisms. One item in this clarification says that PIA’s market share as compared to other carriers is increase from 40.8 percent to 41.6 per cent on international sectors in 2008, an increase...

48 hours have many a times played significance in our national history. For example recently a US newspaper after Mumbai attacks reported that India and US have given 48 hours to Pakistan to arrest and had over the alleged accused. Pakistani spokesman however contradicted this news item...

Since we started journey towards the modern enlightenment and imported a consumer expert as our Prime Minister we the poor commoners are pick pocketed under one label or the other new method. All progress, achievement of more than targets, high figures of government earning attributed to good...

According to the newspapers of `5 October 2008 the Wafaqi Mohtasib has launched a new website to improve its outreach and facilitate the public. I could not stop abrupt smile coming on my face. A year back surfing the net I came across an official website named as Access to Justice Programme...

I have no interest with politics and as such have never joined any political party. The most of the parties I feel are family private trusts and not political parties. From my childhood I heard from the then elders that Sarhadee Ghandi (Khan Ghaffar Khan) and later Khan Wali Khan wanted to...

Faisal Karim from Karachi through Daily Nawai-e-Waqat of 02 November 2008 questions to the president of National Bank of Pakistan what happened to the Literary Books Awards worth Rs. 0.5 million for which nominations the bank sought early 2007. Faisal appears to be not updated. The President...

We are selling our golden egg giving national assets mostly to so called foreign investors mostly in eye raising circumstances only to meet our cash requirements for free Umrah trips, foreign tours, this scheme for political gains and that. PTCL for example one of the biggest profit earning...

Friends of Pakistan gathered in New York on 26 September 2008 to discuss how financially to help Pakistan. This meeting was called by the US. It is a well known fact that nothing remotest is ever free except for destruction from USA without a visible or invisible cost. The well known columnist...

A US drone flying over tribal area was targeted and hit by tribal residents. The ISPR spokesman stated that the matter will be “investigated”. What and why to investigate, if we really are a sovereign state? If thieves come and try to enter my home to kill us or snatch valuables will it be a...

Last week a small electronic and print media news stated that that Sindh Provincial Health Minister Dr Saghir Ahmed stated that the health department was going to carry out afresh investigation into the “9-year old” issue of the seized contaminated RBD palm oil following the directives of the...

I have passed matric examination with mathematics at the time when there were no calculators or no “Naqal”. Hence I have a bit justified delusion that I know a little erythematic. Despite that I am confused and unable to solve a small erythematic mystery but a very logical one. My confusion is...

Midnight 14-15 August 56 lockers were broken in a Habib Bank Branch Karachi were found broken. The duty security guard is alleged to have masterminded it. Two versions appeared in the press. One is that the Security Guards were from a private security company named Excellent Security Agency...