Ormuri, The Language of Burki Tribesmen: The silent victim of militancy (Express Tribune, 6 Dec 2011)

Courtesy: Daily "Express Tribune, Pakistan", 6 December 2011
Ormuri: The silent victim of militancy

By Sohail Khattak
The term ‘collateral damage’ is normally applied to the loss of human life during war; it may now have to expand to include language.

When a military operation was launched in South Waziristan, Ormuri – the native language of the Burki people – also came under assault. Ormuri speakers are now scattered around the country and the language is on the brink of extinction.
The language flourished in Kaniguram, a mountainous valley in South Waziristan – its only habitat on earth. An estimated population of about 10,000 Ormuri speakers lived in Kaniguram before they migrated to different parts of the country.  Today, Burki tribesmen are spread in insignificant numbers in Lahore, Peshawar, Bannu and Kaniguram, and in Logar and Paktia in Afghanistan. However, most have adopted the dominant languages of their new ports, such as Pashto, Urdu and Punjabi.
Munawwar Burki, a criminology student at the University of Karachi who hails from the valley, describes the language as the east Iranian sister dialect of Pashto and Balochi, and says that it was spoken by the Burki people living alongside the Pushto-speaking Mehsuds. It is this proximity with the Pashtuns that has had a deep impact on Ormuri culture, which borrows from the Pakhtunwali code of conduct and had adopted many cultural rituals.

America's Shadow State in Pakistan: An Eye Opener about CIA's Secret War (Daily Beast 5 Dec 2011e)

Courtesy: "The Daily Beast, USA", 05 Dec 2011 
America's Shadow State in Pakistan
By El Lake   

U.S.-Pakistani relations may be on the rocks, but the CIA’s secret friends in the country fight on in units, prisons, and bases the United States has been building up since 9/11 to counter the pro-Taliban side of Pakistan’s military and intelligence services. Eli Lake reports exclusively.
Officially, America’s relations Pakistan’s military and intelligence services were in a tailspin in August.
Furious at having been kept in the dark ahead of the Americans’ May 2 raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound, Pakistan’s military had kept U.S. investigators out of the place until it was scrubbed for evidence and had refused them access to bin Laden’s wives for some time. And the Pakistanis had outed the CIA’s Islamabad station chief, putting his life at risk. Meanwhile, back in America, fears were rising over possible al Qaeda attacks on the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11.
But in the shadows, far from the public rancor, Pakistani-U.S. cooperation quietly continued. In Quetta, the Taliban’s capital in exile, U.S. intelligence was monitoring the cellphone of the presumed planner of any Qaeda anniversary attacks, Younis al-Mauritani, the group’s newly named external operations chief. The Americans’ tracking data—signals intelligence, or sigint, as it’s known in the profession—was being shared in real time with the local branch of Pakistan’s paramilitary Frontier Corps. When his exact location was discovered, the Pakistanis smashed through the doors of his safe house and grabbed him along with two deputies.
Soon he was hundreds of miles away, at a special detention center in Punjab province, under intensive interrogation by a pro-U.S. faction of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence directorate. The Americans began getting regular reports on potential threats connected to the anniversary. CIA officials were even given an “unofficial” visit to question Mauritani directly.
Many in the U.S. government regarded the capture as a crowning achievement of a decade-long, multibillion-dollar effort to build a secret network of Pakistani security forces, intelligence operatives, counterterrorism fighters, and detention centers. Its objective had been to create a friendlier, more trustworthy alternative to Pakistan’s military and intelligence services.

General Pervez Musharraf: Wanted for CRIMES against HUMANITY and PAKISTAN

Mr. Musharraf, We have not yet Forgotten:
LAL Masjid (The most Shameful act by any ruler in Pakistan's history),
Destruction of FATA from Bajaur to Waziristan (FATA had the lowest crime rate in Pakistan before 2001),
Drone Attacks Permissions (e.g. Damadola airstrike killing 80 students on 30 Oct 2006),
Airbases to Americans (Shamsi & Jacobabad etc),
Handing over hundreds of Pakistanis to CIA (including Aafia Siddiqui),
May-12 Killings in Karachi in 2007 (The famous "Mukka Speech"),
Hundreds if not thousands of Missing Persons,
Patronizing MQM and thus causing deaths of thousands of innocent Pakistanis in Karachi,
Loot-Sale of Steel Mills, KESC and PTCL,
Billions of worth corruption (NICL Punjab Bank, Islamabad Farm Houses, Karachi Shershah Bridge,
Handing over Gwadar to Singapore company instead of Chinese and thus causing irrecoverable loss to Pakistan (Gwadar has been literally freezed & abondoned by the Singapore company),
NRO (World's most shameful piece of legislation),
Akbar Bugti Murder (thus throwing Balochistan into the flames of Revenge, insurgency and Anti-Pakistanism),
Benzair Bhutto Murder (ref BB's famous emails to Mark Siegel)
etc etc etc...
The list of CONTRIBUTIONS is too long to be forgotten Mr. Musharraf..
So STAY where you are (With your Foreign Masters).
Even then if We Pakistanis don't punish such people then "We deserve the mess We are in"

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Powerful earthquake, 7.2 Magnitude, hits eastern Turkey - Hundreds feared Dead in city of Van (Associated Press & Aljazeera English)

Courtesy: "Associated Press", 23 Oct 2011 

7.2 quake in Turkey kills 45, collapses buildings  
By SELCAN HACAOGLU and SUZAN FRASER
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- A powerful 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Turkey on Sunday, collapsing dozens of buildings into piles of twisted steel and chunks of concrete. Desperate survivors dug into the rubble with their bare hands, trying to rescue the trapped and injured.
State-run television reported that 45 people were killed and 150 others injured in the eastern town of Ercis, but scientists estimated that up to 1,000 people could already be dead, due to low housing standards in the area and the size of the quake.
Ercis, a town of 75,000 in the mountainous province of Van close to the Iranian border, was the hardest hit. It lies on the Ercis Fault in one of Turkey's most earthquake-prone zones. The bustling regional center of Van, 55 miles (90 kilometers) to the south, also suffered substantial damage.

Up to 30 buildings collapsed in Ercis, including a dormitory, and 10 buildings collapsed in Van, Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay said.
Rescuers in Ercis scrambled to find survivors in a flattened eight-story building that had shops on the ground floor, television footage showed. Residents sobbed outside the ruins, hoping that missing relatives would be rescued.

Libya after Gaddafi: A dangerous precedent?

Courtesy: "Aljazeera English", 22 Oct 2011

Libya after Gaddafi: A dangerous precedent?

The death of a dictator is being celebrated, but foreign intervention could prove problematic in the long-term. By Richard Falk

The fall and death of the despised and despotic leader who had ruled for 42 years naturally produced celebrations throughout Libya, especially in the main cities. Although his end was bloody and vindictive, warning that a violent aftermath could further spoil the outcome of the struggle, we should remember that Gaddafi’s early rants against his own people invited a harsh popular response if their turn came.
Recalling WH Auden’s famous line, “Those to whom evil is done/ do evil in return,” it is almost inevitable that when a leader refers to his opponents as "rats" and pledges to hunt them down house by house the stage is set for the kind of violent drama that played out a few days ago in the dictator’s last stand at Sirte.
At this time, there seems to be a leadership vacuum in Libya that is not likely to be filled very soon. It is difficult to discern whether tribal loyalties will provide primary political identities now that the unifying effect of hostility to the Gaddafi regime can no longer suppress diverse goals and ambitions. Much of the fighting in the last stages of the struggle was under the semi-autonomous control of militia-like commanders such as Abdel Hakim Belhadj who led the attack on Tripoli or Fawzi Bukatef who seemed to command the assaults on those places where Gaddafi loyalists gathered for their last stand.
Such commanders do not usually submit to civilian control, presenting an immediate threat to national coherence. The Transitional National Council has seemed mainly successful so far in lending international credibility to the anti-Gaddafi forces. We will soon learn whether it can also represent the collective will of the Libyan people sufficiently to manage the interim process that will be needed before the establishment of an elected government can be arranged.

Gaddafi's children in exile, on the run, or dead

Courtesy: "Reuters", 21 Oct 2011
Gaddafi's children in exile, on the run, or dead
By David Stamp and Giles Elgood

(Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi's eight children, whose pampered lives ranged from security chief and U.N. goodwill ambassador to playboy and professional footballer, earned reputations for extravagance, violence and bizarre behavior almost equaling their father's.
Amid the chaos of war, three now appear to be dead like the deposed Libyan leader himself, four are scattered in exile and one remains on the run, their lives of privilege disrupted or ended by the collapse of Gaddafi senior's 42-year rule.
Jealousy and greed long poisoned relations within the family but when rebellion broke out in February, Gaddafi's seven sons and one daughter closed ranks around their father, breaking off lives that in many cases had been lived abroad.
A leaked U.S. diplomatic report from 2009 noted that "internecine strife is nothing new for the famously fractious family." Several Libyan officials lost their jobs or were forced into exile after falling foul of family members.
Perhaps the best internationally known son, Saif al-Islam, is also the most elusive. A senior official of the National Transitional Council (NTC) said on Friday that he was fleeing south from the last Gaddafi stronghold of Sirte toward Libya's border with Niger, where another son has already taken refuge.
Al Arabiya TV quoted NTC officials as saying Saif al-Islam had been captured near Misrata but this was unconfirmed.

Gaddafi: Death of an era, dawn of an era - By Robert Grenier (in Aljazeera English)

Courtesy: "Aljazeera English", 21 Oct 2011

Gaddafi: Death of an era, dawn of an era

Gaddafi's death is symbolic of the death of an old paradigm that no longer has a place in today's world.

By Robert Grenier

First accounts are almost never correct, but if the circumstances of Libyan Col. Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi's death prove to be as reported, they will provide yet another, final irony in a life replete with them. The man whose success relied upon a combination of great-power manipulation and the ability to sustain the fantasy that he embodied the aspirations of his people succumbed in the end to a combination of great-power military intervention and the genuine aspiration of his people for a future free of his vicious domination.

Battle for Libya: Key moments: Timeline of decisive battles and political developments in Libya's uprising against Muammar Gaddafi.

Courtesy: "Aljazeera English", 20 Oct 2011

Battle for Libya: Key moments

Timeline of decisive battles and political developments in Libya's uprising against Muammar Gaddafi.

Gaddafi has been killed and Sirte, Muammar Gaddafi's hometown, has finally been seized by fighters of the National Transitional Council (NTC) after weeks of heavy fighting.
On Thursday, NTC commanders said they had wrested the toppled leader's last remaining stronghold, thereby liberating the entire country.

It is a watershed moment for Libya that has been swept by turmoil over the past several months.
Al Jazeera looks back at some of the key developments since the uprising against Gaddafi began.

February 17: The Day of Revolt. The first major protests and violent clashes in Libya actually began two days before this, on February 15, mostly in Benghazi. Hundreds gathered outside the police station, and a number of protesters were killed.
But February 17 was the official "day of revolt," an effort to bring thousands of protesters into the streets. Major demonstrations were reported in Benghazi, Ajdabiya, Darnah and Zintan, among others; Gaddafi forces responded by firing live ammunition at the crowds. More than a dozen demonstrators were killed.
Gaddafi reportedly released dozens of prisoners from jail and paid them to fight against the protesters.
The "day of revolt" coincided with the fifth anniversary of a major anti-Gaddafi protest in Benghazi.
Protests continued to escalate after February 17, and there were widespread reports that Gaddafi had hired mercenaries to supplement his security forces and suppress the demonstrations.

Muammar Gaddafi killed as Sirte falls

Courtesy: "Aljazeera English", 21 Oct 2011

Muammar Gaddafi killed as Sirte falls

Former Libyan leader killed in apparent attempt to flee last bastion, but circumstances of his death remain unclear

Muammar Gaddafi has been killed after National Transitional Council fighters overran loyalist defences in the toppled Libyan leader's hometown and final stronghold of Sirte.

But questions remained on Thursday over the circumstances of Gaddafi's death as footage appeared to show he had been captured alive, following an apparent attempt to flee the besieged coastal city in a convoy which came under fire from French warplanes and a US drone aircraft.



Other footage showed Gaddafi's lifeless and bloodied body being dragged along a road.
"We have been waiting for this moment for a long time. Muammar Gaddafi has been killed," Mahmoud Jibril, the de facto Libyan prime minister, told reporters on Thursday in Tripoli, the capital.
Asked what would be done with Gaddafi's body, he said: "It doesn't make any difference, as long as he disappears".

Obituary: Muammar Gaddafi: One of the world's most eccentric and unpredictable leaders, Gaddafi dominated the world stage for decades

Courtesy: "Aljazeera English", 22 Oct 2011

Obituary: Muammar Gaddafi

One of the world's most eccentric and unpredictable leaders, Gaddafi dominated the world stage for decades

After 42 years at the helm of his sparsely populated, oil-rich nation, Muammar Gaddafi - the Arab world's longest-ruling leader - lost his grip on power after a six-month uprising.
Since he lead a successful military coup in 1969, Gaddafi styled himself as Libya's "brother leader" and the "guide of the revolution", as an almost paternal figure looking after Libya's six million inhabitants.
His relationship with the rest of the world was erratic. For years, Gaddafi was known in the West as a pariah, blamed for the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am jumbo jet over Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed 270 people. After years of denial, Libya acknowledged responsibility and agreed to pay up to $10m to relatives of victims; Gaddafi also declared he would dismantle all weapons of mass destruction.
Those moves eased him back into the international community.
In February, only weeks after street protests brought down the leaders of Tunisia and Egypt, a rebellion against Gaddafi's rule started in the country's east.

UN calls for probe into Gaddafi's death: UN Special Rapporteur Christof Heyns warns the killing could be a war crime

Courtesy: "Aljazeera English", 22 Oct 2011

UN calls for probe into Gaddafi's death

Special Rapporteur warns the manner of the deposed Libyan leader's killing could be a war crime

The UN has called for an international investigation into the death of Muammar Gaddafi, the deposed Libyan leader, saying it could well have been a war crime.

Christof Heyns, the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, told Al Jazeera on Friday that a proper investigation into the exact events surrounding Gaddafi’s death was a key test for Libya’s future as a democratic and accountable state.

“The Geneva conventions are very clear that when prisoners are taken they may not be executed willfully and if that was the case then we are dealing with a war crime, something that should be tried.”

“It’s important that the new government will be placed on a solid basis where there is accountability for illegal actions.  I think it would be good if there was international investigation into this as well, and it’s not simply Mr Gaddafi  but also there’s the dangers of reprisals against others as well and that is where it is important to draw the line to say that  new system in place  one of  accountability.”

Heir to Saudi throne and Defence Minister Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, 83, dies - By Aljazeera English (22 Oct 2011)

Courtesy: "Aljazeera English", 22 Oct 2011

Heir to Saudi throne Crown Prince Sultan dies

Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, 83-year-old defence minister, has died "outside the kingdom following an illness"

Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, the 83-year-old defence minister and first in line of succession to become king of Saudi Arabia, has died.
"With deep sorrow and sadness ... King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz mourns the death of his brother and his Crown Prince Sultan who died at dawn this morning Saturday outside the kingdom following an illness," the Saudi state press agency said.
Prince Sultan's funeral will be held on Tuesday, the statement said.
He was an "important and influential senior prince" who played a key role in relations with the Gulf Cooperation Council, particularly Yemen, said Hussein Shobokshi, a columnist for the Asharq Alawsat newspaper.
"He was always in favour of stability and has always been in touch with various sectors of Yemeni society, tribal, governmental, and he was keen on having ... a smooth political climate that does not affect the kingdom," Shobokshi said.
Analysts believed he had been suffering from a form of dementia, and a March 2009 US diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks said he was "for all intents and purposes incapacitated".
He received a diagnosis of colon cancer in 2004.
A changing kingdom?
With Prince Sultan's death, his brother Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz, the longtime minister of interior, becomes the most likely candidate to be next in line to rule after King Abdullah.
In 2006, the king formed an Allegiance Council meant to help oversee succession issues. The king has ultimate authority to choose the next crown prince and heir, and it remains unclear how exactly the council will interact with him.
Khaled al-Maeena, editor in chief of the Arab News newspaper in the Saudi capital Riyadh, said that whomever was chosen to succeed Abdullah would need to take into account "new faces" and a changing kingdom.
"It is very important for those who follow now, and the leaders of Saudi Arabia, to take into account, not because of Arab springs or Arab winters, but to take into account that there is a young constituency with different wishes and goals," he said.
His official birthday in the kingdom is January 5, 1928, but some Western analysts believe he was actually born in 1924.
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America's "Do More" Mantra: Pakistani Soldiers and People wonder what more they can do in war on militancy - Reuters / Express Tribune, 13 Oct 2011

Courtesy: "Reuters / Daily Express Tribune", 13 Oct 2011
Pakistanis wonder what more they can do in war on militancy

RAWALPINDI: When Pakistan Army Sergeant Abdur Rehman hears America’s oft-repeated demand that Pakistan do more to fight militants, he glances down at the stumps of his legs and wonders what more it wants from him.
A mortar bomb shredded him from the waist down as he led an advance against Taliban fighters in 2007 in Pakistan’s unruly northwestern tribal areas on the Afghan border.
Instead of enjoying full retirement benefits, he underwent rehabilitation, was given artificial limbs and returned as a commander to a desk job in the militant-infested region where he was wounded.
“What more can Pakistanis do?,” asked Rehman, 35.
That question has often strained ties between Washington and Islamabad, but it has been posed far more frequently since US special forces killed Osama bin Laden in May in a Pakistani town, where he had apparently been living for years.

George Galloway redicules "Iran bomb plot" - Absurd US allegation about "Iranian plot to Kill Saudi Ambassador to Washington"

Iran dismisses US murder-plot claim: terms it "childish, amateur game" - By Aljazeera English, 12 Oct 2011

By George Galloway (MP of British Parliament)
October 12 2011
"It reads like a Hollywood film script" said the FBI Director Robert Mueller at the podium on the breakfast news unveiling what might be an Oscar-Winner at least in the "Wag the Dog" category.
Iran it seems, at least in the script, planned to blow up the Saudi Ambassador to Washington in a restaurant frequented by American senators and scores of other diners. And it contracted, through an Iranian- American citizen ( who appears to have been convicted long before his presumably forthcoming trial) guided by a named "member of the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard", a Mexican Drug Cartel to do the job for a price of $1.5 million. Only the hired assassin was in fact an FBI operative, turned by them from his drug-dealing past into a sting operator. Thus the $100,000 down payment the Iranian-American allegedly paid into the agent's bank account goes to the US Treasury to reduce President Obama's deficit. Which may of course be where it came from in the first place.

Iran dismisses US murder-plot claim: terms it "childish, amateur game".- By Aljazeera English, 12 Oct 2011

Courtesy: "Aljazeera English", 12 Oct 2011

Iran dismisses US murder-plot claim

Allegation of involvement in bid to kill Saudi ambassador to Washington termed "childish, amateur game".

Iran has vigorously rejected US allegations that it had backed a plot to kill the Saudi ambassador, with a senior official describing them as a "childish, amateur game".
Ali Larijani, the parliament speaker, said on Wednesday the "fabricated allegations" aimed to divert attention from Arab uprisings that Iran says are inspired by its own Islamic revolution that toppled the Shah in 1979.
The primary evidence linking Iran to the alleged conspiracy is that the arrested suspect is said to have told US law-enforcement agents that he had been recruited and directed by men he understood were senior Quds Force officials.
The Quds Force is an unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.

Zulfiqar Mirza - The MAN is right and alright. But he needs to learn some Skills and Tactics from "Bhai Log"

Mirza declares war on MQM

Zulfiqar Mirza - ‘Bad cop’ or double-edged sword?

The MAN is right and alright. But he needs to learn some Skills and Tactics (for the camera only).
The difference is that
"Bhai Log" have hidden their crimes behind their "On-Camera Smile" and "Show of (non-existent) Sharafat". Everybody knows how they threaten the MEDIA CHANNELS in a "Shareefana Andaz" to get hours of live coverage for their Khutba (Khitab doesn't say it all), and the Media gets threatened (fearing the loss of Pakistan's 70% Cable TV Market a.k.a KARACHI). I bet even the "Hajj Khutba" doesn't get such full live coverage.
On the other hand
"Mirza" lacks the "Calm and Cool composure" and the "On-camera Sharafat" (a.k.a Munafiqat) needed to make the Pakistanis believe your point.
Mirza should learn from the "Bhai Log" how to:
"Kill a person in the morning",
"Offer his Janaza (under the Tehreek's flag) in the afternoon" and
"Call for a strike in the MARTYR's name in the evening".
This is how the list of 15000 Shuhada has been made, over the years.

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How Innocent: Dear Americans Spend $2 million on Pakistani Media for "No vested Interest of theirs"

US funding for Pakistani journalists raises questions

Who says, “There are NO Free Lunches” in this world? All rubbish.
Look, our dear Americans are spending $2 million of U.S Tax Payer’s money on “reporting of the U.S from Pakistani perspective”, without ANY interest of theirs. How innocent.
We have “NO right to raise Eye-brows”. After all Pakistanis are BENEFITING from this.
Long live Pakistani Media and Kudos @ Express & Dunya (for bringing in direly needed Foreign Exchange to Pakistan).
And please, this is not SARCASM. I mean it, really... :P.
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Crimes of Pervez Musharraf; a Commoner's Voice - Mr. Musharraf: We have not yet forgotten your Crimes

Mr. Musharraf, We have not yet Forgotten:
LAL Masjid (The most Shameful act by any ruler in Pakistan's history),
Destruction of FATA from Bajaur to Waziristan (FATA had the lowest crime rate in Pakistan before 2001),
Drone Attacks Permissions (e.g. Damadola airstrike killing 80 students on 30 Oct 2006),
Airbases to Americans (Shamsi & Jacobabad etc),
Handing over hundreds of Pakistanis to CIA (including Aafia Siddiqui),
May-12 Killings in Karachi in 2007 (The famous "Mukka Speech"),
Hundreds if not thousands of Missing Persons,
Patronizing MQM and thus causing deaths of thousands of innocent Pakistanis in Karachi,
Loot-Sale of Steel Mills, KESC and PTCL,
Billions of worth corruption (NICL Punjab Bank, Islamabad Farm Houses, Karachi Shershah Bridge,
Handing over Gwadar to Singapore company instead of Chinese and thus causing irrecoverable loss to Pakistan (Gwadar has been literally freezed & abondoned by the Singapore company),
NRO (World's most shameful piece of legislation),
Akbar Bugti Murder (thus throwing Balochistan into the flames of Revenge, insurgency and Anti-Pakistanism),
Benzair Bhutto Murder (ref BB's famous emails to Mark Siegel)
etc etc etc...
The list of CONTRIBUTIONS is too long to be forgotten Mr. Musharraf..
So STAY where you are (With your Foreign Masters).
Even then if We Pakistanis don't punish such people then "We deserve the mess We are in"
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"A Political Party" of Karachi - Both Edges of Pakistani Media's "Double Edged Sword" favour WHOM?

Karachi search operation: 36 suspects apprehended in Pak Colony - 09 Oct 2011

Sounds funny how our FREE media uses the term "Political Party" as a Double-Edged Sword.
One Edge of the Sword: If the deceased belong to MQM, they are loudly called "MQM Activists or Sympathizers" (BTW: What on earth is a Sympathizer?). However, if the deceased are ANP or PPP or MQM-H or or JSQM or ST activists, they are dubbed workers of "a Political Party" without naming the parties.
The other Edge of the Sword: If target killers with alleged MQM affiliation are arrested, they are termed activists of "a Political Party" without naming MQM. However, if target killers with Pashtun, Baloch or Sindhi origin are arrested, they are loudly referred to with their Ethnicity or Party names.
So both Edges of this strange MEDIA SWORD seem to suit the one and only "Guess Yourself Party".
Well Done "Edgware and Nine-Zero".
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‘Dr’ Rehman Malik, awarded doctorate degree – The Express Tribune, 11 Oct 2011

‘Dr’ Rehman Malik, awarded doctorate degree – The Express Tribune

"Greatest" day in the history of Karachi University.
Next KU should award "Honorary Doctorates" to some other "PERSONALITIES" who have CONTRIBUTIONS for Karachi. See some SAMPLE Doctorates:
1) Dr. Rehman Dakait
2) Dr. Arshad Pappu
3) Dr. Ajmal Pahari (supplemented by Hon Post Doc from University of "Tambaktoo")
4) Dr. Kamran Madhuri
5) Dr. Baba Ladla
Well done KU and Kudos to VC Pirzada Qasim.
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