Things categorized as 'Dr Farrukh Saleem'
August 29th by Dr Farrukh Saleem.
Democracy is a contract--an agreement between the voters and the elected. Democracy is an agreement--a promise between the voters and the elected whereby the elected undertake to render services, assurances ...
January 10th by Dr Farrukh Saleem.
2010 is Election Year for America. On Nov 2, voters will elect 440 members of the United States House of Representatives. The same day, elections will be held for at ...
July 26th by Dr Farrukh Saleem.
Why is Lahore out of power for 12 hours a day?
Answer 1: Japan Power Generation Limited located at Jia Bagga Railway Station, Raiwind Road, District Lahore, is shut down. Japan ...
July 22nd by Dr Farrukh Saleem.
ISLAMABAD: We have embassies in Vienna, Baku, Brussels, Sarajevo, Prague, Copenhagen, Paris, Berlin, Athens, Budapest, Dublin, Rome, The Hague, Oslo, Warsaw, Lisbon, Bucharest, Moscow, Belgrade, Madrid, Stockholm, Berne, Kiev, Havana, ...
April 12th by Dr Farrukh Saleem.
America's top-most diplomat for the region and America's 17th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff have never been in Islamabad -- both at the same time. Holbrooke was here ...
April 5th by Dr Farrukh Saleem.
Consider this: one, Bush had deployed just one Brigade Combat Team (BCT) of the US army in Afghanistan (the US army is "converting from a structure in which the division ...
March 29th by Dr Farrukh Saleem.
Bush's 'war on terror' is now Obama's 'overseas contingency operation', or OCO. Bush's 'war on terror' wasn't going well neither is Obama's OCO. Bush had asked Lieutenant-General Douglas Lute, his ...
March 22nd by Dr Farrukh Saleem.
Dateline: Karbala, Muharram 10, 61 AH -- Hussain ibne Ali ibne Abi Talib (RA) refused to pledge allegiance to Dictator Yazid ibne Mu'awiyah ibne Abi Sufyan. Sayyid al-Shuhada (RA) "gave ...
March 15th by Dr Farrukh Saleem.
Governments have never been able to stop determined long marchers. Three hundred thousand Estonians did nothing but sing patriotic songs. Red Army's T-34 tanks couldn't stop Estonians from singing. Teargas, ...
February 8th by Dr Farrukh Saleem.
Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini, the 1st Supreme Leader of Iran, in a speech on 5 November 1979, labelled the United States "Shaytan-e-Bozorg" or the 'Great Satan'. That was ...
December 16th by Dr Farrukh Saleem.
Imagine; the main firearm of the Mumbai police is the 113-year old, .303 Lee-Enfield, magazine-fed, bolt-action rifle (.303 was adopted by the British army in 1895 and discarded in 1957). ...
November 9th by Dr Farrukh Saleem.
President-elect Barack Obama has been elected by 63 million American voters and he has been elected to promote and safeguard America's national interest -- not Pakistan's. America's presidential campaign is ...
October 5th by Dr Farrukh Saleem.
Pakistan is fighting two ferocious wildfires that have taken each and every square inch of Pakistan into their fatal grips. The flame has already consumed 11,129 innocent Pakistani lives and ...
September 28th by Dr Farrukh Saleem.
Pakistan is literally on fire and we, Pakistanis, have neither the appropriate fire-fighting equipment nor trained fire-fighters. We must ask the world to come help us put the flame out ...
September 21st by Dr Farrukh Saleem.
These are the most dangerous of times. The trajectory of events on the Pakistan-Afghan border has a shocking parallel to the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War had begun in 1959 ...
September 14th by Dr Farrukh Saleem.
The US Army's III Corps is in Iraq. The 4th Infantry Division is at Camp Victory. The 3rd Infantry Division is in Baghdad. The 1st Armoured Division is in Tikrit. ...
September 9th by Dr Farrukh Saleem.
She joined the foreign service in 1973 as an economic officer. She has been the recipient of a Presidential Honour award, a Meritorious Honour award and the Order of the ...
August 31st by Dr Farrukh Saleem.
Can anyone name a Pakistani soul who has more votes in our presidential electoral college than does Mr Asif Ali Zardari? To be certain, presidential-hopeful Zardari is a ...
August 24th by Dr Farrukh Saleem.
On August 11, Agence France-Presse (AFP), the oldest news agency in the world, quoted NATO Commander US Army General David McKiernan declaring that "Pakistan's intelligence agency is helping the Taliban ...
August 17th by Dr Farrukh Saleem.
Brother Bush hasn’t been returning calls for the past three weeks. The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques is willing to offer safe custody but no more. The Mayor of ...
August 3rd by Dr Farrukh Saleem.
Nargis Bibi, a widower, has been fighting for her inheritance for years. The police have been acting dumb, judges deaf and lawyers greedy. Three weeks ago, Nargis Bibi went to ...
July 13th by Dr Farrukh Saleem.
One, in the month of June, for the first time ever, there were more coalition military fatalities in Afghanistan than in Iraq. Two, on July 7, President George Bush told ...
