Zardari’s order suspended by 3 member bench of Supreme Court

SC Bench Judges Appointment Has Suspended Presidential Order

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan News: Supreme Court’s 3-member bench while hearing the suo moto notice on judges’ appointment has suspended Presidential order. A short judgment has been issued in this regard.

Earlier, Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has taken suo moto notice on judges’ appointment. Supreme Court’s 3-member bench is reviewing the suo moto notice. Attorney General has been called in the Supreme Court by the bench in this regard.

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Have you encountered these situations…

· After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch. – · Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner. – · When you dial a wrong number, you always get through and never get it engaged one. – · If you use the excuse that you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will actually have a flat tire. – · If you change queues, the one you have left will start to move faster than the one you are in now. – · As soon as you have immersed yourself fully in the bathtub, the telephone bell will ring. – · The probability of meeting someone you know increases when you are in a situation where you do not want to be seen by anybody. – · When you try to prove to the repairman that a machine/computer/ mobile doesn’t work, it will. – · The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the reachability of the area. – · At any event, the people whose seats are furthest from the aisle arrive last. – · As soon as you sit down to a cup of hot coffee/tea, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee/tea is cold. – · When you are working late, the boss will never be around. When you are surfing the net or gossiping, the boss will always drop by. * Sure you have encountered some of these, amazing? Isn’t it? * *These are univeral Rules for which reasons are not-known …*

Ajmal Khattak: the Revolutionary Dervish

by Dr. Mohammad Taqi

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them”.

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He was a true polymath – a poet, journalist, broadcaster, linguist, scholar and a politician .However despite all his patrician qualities this Renaissance man was a plebeian at heart.

Despite his capability to – and opportunities available to him for – upward social mobility, Ajmal Khattak chose to live and die in his dignified poverty. In a polity where comprador bourgeoisie, feudals and their quislings were rising to power, Ajmal stood head and shoulders above that upstart crowd, relying solely on his intellectual and political acumen. He was a giant in a political landscape dotted with pygmies.

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