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Jalees Hazir

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Speaking for nature?

By: Jalees Hazir | January 27, 2013

It was reported by TheNation last week that a case has been registered against two District Forest Officers and 20 other employees of the Forest Department for theft of trees in Bhakkar. The worth of ...

Pakistan: moving on

By: Jalees Hazir | January 13, 2013

Last week, the MQM jumped off Tahirul Qadri’s rickety bandwagon at the eleventh hour. Only a day before this announcement, the all-powerful chief of the party spoke via telephone from London ...

March of the mob

By: Jalees Hazir | January 06, 2013

Last week President Zardari added fuel to the fire by assigning Rehman Malik to talk to Tahirul Qadri regarding his so-called long march, as advised by Altaf Hussain from London. This has raised ...

Hijacking the revolution

By: Jalees Hazir | December 30, 2012

Last Sunday, Tahirul Qadri resurfaced at Minar-e-Pakistan after years abroad, his heart bleeding for democracy. He gave an ultimatum to the government to reform the electoral process by January 10, ...

Defining our war

By: Jalees Hazir | December 23, 2012

Acts of terror in and around Peshawar last week reminded us once again that we are in the middle of a war. These recent attacks that claimed many innocent lives made some commentators renew their ...

Contempt of public mandate?

By: Jalees Hazir | December 16, 2012

The Supreme Court issued a contempt notice to MQM Chief Altaf Hussain last week, asking him to appear in person to explain his unrestrained banter against the apex court order regarding the ...

Love thy neighbour, not US

By: Jalees Hazir | December 09, 2012

President Asif Zardari landed in London instead of Tehran last Friday, thanks to a last-minute change in his travel plans. Earlier in the week, Prime Minister Pervaiz Ashraf didn’t attend the ...

Democracy without elections

By: Jalees Hazir | December 02, 2012

At a seminar in Lahore to mark the 46th birthday of Pakistan Peoples Party last week, the provisional Punjab President of the party, Manzoor Wattoo, was greeted by workers with banners against lotas. ...

A monster called Israel

By: Jalees Hazir | November 18, 2012

Last week, the terrorist state of Israel started bombing Gaza once again, killing innocent civilians in the name of targeting terrorists. Soon enough, the Israeli Defence Forces had announced the ...

Quest for total control

By: Jalees Hazir | November 11, 2012

The Supreme Court issued its detailed judgment in the Asghar Khan case last week, directing the government to take action against former COAS General (retd) Mirza Aslam Beg and former DG ISI ...

Reinventing the left

By: Jalees Hazir | November 04, 2012

Last Friday in Islamabad, three left-wing parties announced their merger at a press conference. Workers Party Pakistan, Awami Party Pakistan and Labour Party Pakistan will launch the newly-formed ...

Malala vs drones debate

By: Jalees Hazir | October 21, 2012

Something wonderful happened last week: Pakistan’s daughter Malala came out of her coma. While a whole nation prayed for her well being, the apologists of TTP and the apologists of the empire ...

PTI: pro-people politics

By: Jalees Hazir | October 14, 2012

With a safe end to PTI’s peace march to Waziristan last Sunday, we witnessed a miracle of national healing. And then, as if in revenge, the TTP-claimed militants targeted Malala Yousufzai, a ...

Deviousness of judiciary-bashers

By: Jalees Hazir | October 07, 2012

Addressing ministers, parliamentarians and office bearers of his party in Karachi via satellite from London, MQM Chief Altaf Hussain asked the Supreme Court last week to review its decision in the ...

Rehman Malik’s ninth life

By: Jalees Hazir | September 30, 2012

Shamelessly continuing asPakistan’s Interior Minister, despite tons of dirt on his face, Rehman Malik’s quest for survival is finally running out of steam. Last week, he had to eat his ...

In the name of Islam!

By: Jalees Hazir | September 23, 2012

The government named last Friday as Youm-e-Ishq-e-Rasool and declared it a national holiday to honour Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) as a response to a third-rate blasphemous film that has enraged Muslims ...

Saving Gilgit-Baltistan

By: Jalees Hazir | September 09, 2012

Speaking at a press conference in Skurdu last Sunday, Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan urged the Chief Justice of Pakistan to take suo moto notice of targeted killing of members of the ...

New doctrine of necessity

By: Jalees Hazir | September 02, 2012

Last week the Supreme Court gave the Prime Minister another three weeks to decide his course of action regarding writing the letter to Swiss authorities. The Prime Minister had pleaded that he was ...

The enemy within

By: Jalees Hazir | August 19, 2012

A series of murderous attacks on members of the Shia community were unleashed in Kohistan, Karachi and Quetta last week. Those killed in the Kohistan incident were headed home for Eid with their ...

Fascism as democracy

By: Jalees Hazir | July 15, 2012

The Contempt of Court Bill 2012 was presented in the National Assembly and the Senate, passed by the two houses without much debate and signed into law by the President, all in the span of four days ...

From colonial to pro-people

By: Jalees Hazir | July 08, 2012

In his separate note that was issued by the Supreme Court with its detailed judgment on the Gillani Disqualification case last week, Justice Jawad S. Khawaja wrote: “It is about time, ...

Graves and mafia democracy

By: Jalees Hazir | July 02, 2012

Visiting the graves of Bhuttos last week, the new Prime Minister reiterated his party’s stance on writing the letter to Swiss authorities. According to the Constitution, he is bound to follow ...

Progressives or serfs?

By: Jalees Hazir | June 24, 2012

Last week a convicted but stubborn Prime Minister was kicked out of office for violating the Constitution and ridiculing the judiciary. The unceremonious exit of Yousuf Raza Gilani was a victory for ...

Dons of democracy

By: Jalees Hazir | June 17, 2012

Last week, in his capacity as the President of Pakistan, Asif Zardari pardoned a personal guard of Malik Riaz, a convicted murderer who had confessed his crime before a lower court and was awarded 33 ...

Minus one: version two

By: Jalees Hazir | June 10, 2012

Last week, the honourable Chief Justice of Pakistan took a suo moto notice of allegations in the media regarding his son, bringing an end to a whispering campaign that had been going on for some ...

Painting a villain as martyr

By: Jalees Hazir | June 03, 2012

Dr Shakil Afridi, better known for running a fake vaccination programme in Abbottabad at CIA’s behest with the aim of tracking down Osama bin Laden, and sentenced to 33 years by a Fata court ...

The mirage of democracy

By: Jalees Hazir | May 27, 2012

In Quetta, heading a three-member bench hearing cases regarding human rights violations and the worrisome law and order situation in Balochistan last week, the Chief Justice urged the government to ...

Three stooges of the empire

By: Jalees Hazir | May 20, 2012

Four containers crossed the Torkham border on their way to Kabul last week. Though it was reported that the containers carried office equipment and stationery for the US Embassy there, the recent ...

Resisting US belligerence

By: Jalees Hazir | May 13, 2012

The United States decided to go all out, gunning for a non-compliant Pakistan last week. The drone attacks in the North Waziristan Agency were supplemented by the ballistic missile launched by ...

Petty politics and provinces

By: Jalees Hazir | May 06, 2012

As if the political turmoil in the country was not bad enough already, the ruling PPP and its coalition partners passed a resolution in the National Assembly last week for carving out a new province ...

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