Month: October 2021
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YOU WANT CHANGE? ALLOW OVERSEAS PAKISTANIS TO VOTE. Part 1
STRAIGHT TALK by Hafeez Khan Sometimes a thought keeps percolating in your mind; you want to do something about it but other things crop up and it gets ignored. That has happened to me in the case of Overseas Pakistani voting rights. It all changed recently when I attended an event organized by Pakistan Overseas…
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HOW WILL PM IK PLAY ON THE BACK FOOT?
STRAIGHT TALK by Hafeez Khan It is cricketing season so it is inevitable that this game’s analogies come to mind. The events unfolding on our national scene do not bode well for the continuation of a stable Government. The opposition is jubilant, bureaucracy is paralyzed, TV anchors are having a field day and the nation…
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A Q KHAN: WHY CAN’T WE RESPECT OUR HEROES?
STRAIGHT TALK by Hafeez Khan We live in the moment as a nation. Be it a national debacle like the loss of East Pakistan, or a glorious event like Pakistan becoming an atomic power. We grieve or rejoice the moment, and then discard it to the dust bin. Few people question this onset of amnesia.…
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PANDORA PAPERS: FURTHER PROOF OF ELITE CAPTURE
STRAIGHT TALK by Hafeez Khan Pandora Papers are a reality check. Really and truly the political divide is a façade. There are the takers and those who get taken every five years. Corruption, money laundering, bribes and loot have no ideology; this common thread runs across party lines. It does not end there. It has…
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PTI’s BIGGEST POLITICAL FOE IS FOOD INFLATION
STRAIGHT TALK by Hafeez Khan I was talking to Barkat Bibi. She goes around different households to cook food on a contract basis. Formerly she was a primary school teacher, raising four kids with her husband, Hanif, who owned a motorcycle repair shop. COVID hit her with a double whammy. She lost her job when…