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      By: Haroon Baloch It is a saying in English "As you sow, so shall you  reap."  It may be a bit earlier to write but I cannot refrain myself because my sources in Samaa TV have confirmed that Maya Khan Show will not go on-air from Monday. Certainly, a bad news for an employee, but this is fact that masses wanted the same since the very next moment after Maya Khan's 17th January show ended. Sorry Maya Khan, I know you're a good actor, but you bang the rights of public and I guess they didn't like your approach. I’m a reporter whether reporting objectively or opinionatedly, my ethics while writing blog or a news report must be same, facts are integrated and authentic, I’m responsible for what I claim. Being a strong believer of social responsibility of media, freedom of expression is my right, but to harm someone other’s right is not my right. One can express his/her views on any topic, phenomena, and/or issue, but minding the laws and ethi...

By Haroon Baloch ISLAMABAD, Jan 16: Memo commission ordered Mansoor Ijaz to be present on next hearing on Tuesday, January 24, 2012 and consider it the final chance, otherwise commission will formulate its report for the apex court on the basis of available facts. A three-member commission headed by Chief Justice of Balochistan High Court, Qazi Faez Esa while investigating the Memogate Scandal evaluated the facts of both sides here in Islamabad High Court on Monday. Advocate Akram Sheikh, the counsel of Mansoor Ijaz, told the honorable commission that his client has yet not received visa to travel for Pakistan because he is receiving life threats from government officials. "Since Mansoor Ijaz is threatened of being trialed under article 6 for toppling the previous Pakistan Peoples Party government. Media published the statement of interior minister Rehman Malik's statement in this regard", Akram Sheikh told the commission while referring to the story of Jang Newspape...

  By: Haroon Baloch ISLAMABAD, Jan 13: Chinese Troupe performed its heart touching and tremendous cultural performances in commemoration of Chinese Spring Festival and witnessed a huge applause from the twin cities audiences. Chinese performers maintained an excellent three hours show and amused the crowed with their strong body movements on their traditional folk music here in Pakistan National Council of Arts (PNCA) on Friday. The troupe of Guang Dong province was visiting Pakistan in relation with celebrations of 60 years Sino-Pak ties where both the countries have declared the 2011-12 the year of friendship. During the show, not only Chinese performers presented items but Pakistani students of a local school system also participated in it. The school system during the last two years have trained 2000 students in Chinese language.

By: Haroon Baloch ISLAMABAD, Jan 1: Pakistan witnessed historical ups and downs in its roller-coaster with United States during the whole 2011 where private CIA contractor Raymond Davis proven to be the first blow to their romance. Osama bin Laden operation on May 2nd halted the process of cooperation between both nations in war against terror whereas NATO-led-ISAF strikes on Salalah check posts in Mohmand Agency on November 26th did the real damage to Pak-US ties, not respecting the joint parliamentary resolution passed on May 14 against OBL hunt in Abbottabad.

December 15, 2011 By: Haroon Baloch Over ninety countries' delegates foregathered in Bonn , Germany on the 5 th December for Afghanistan 's future but the most significant ally in war on terror and Afghanistan 's all-weathered neighbor – Pakistan boycotted the moot. Global leaders including US Secretary of States Hillary Rodham Clinton, the German Chancellor Angela Dorothea Merkel, Britain 's Prime Minister David W. D. Cameron and others accentuated Pakistan to attend the moot, and nothing more this time Pakistan stood steadfastly against the callous attitude of its so called "ally" in terror war the NATO-led International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF). Loss that Pakistan endured was huge; likewise the aftermaths could be anticipated. Salalah Incident and Pakistan 's Role in Terror War The November 26 th , 2011, 1:05 am, the midnight had so far proven to be the worst moments ever in the last 11 years for Pakistan – United States relat...

By: Haroon Baloch Good governance has been receding in Pakistan and tensions are mounting. The public has cherished its civilian rule during the past three and a half years, and has seen a debilitating yet resilient economy, maintaining a 2.5 percent growth rate. Still, external debts have crossed $64 billion, unemployment hovers over 6.2 percent, and the poverty rate, at 37.5 percent, is increasing with double figure inflation. Once thought to be the next Asian tiger, as was former Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif’s dream for Pakistan, the country is now considered a struggling economy in South Asia. During the 1990s, Sharif vowed to reduce corruption, improve infrastructure, and encourage growth in modern technologies. He privatized banks and industries, suspending the policies of nationalization promoted by former Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto in the 1970s. However, even with these changes, institutions in the country were never strengthened. In the 90s, the co...

By: Haroon Baloch November 19, 2011 ISLAMABAD (Nov 19, 2011): As the claims of US businessmen-cum-journalist, Ijaz Mansoor of Pakistani origin strengthened post COAS Gen. Ashfaq Kayani's meeting with his Supreme Commander, President Asif Ali Zardari, it has developed into a "Memogate" controversy, which engulfed all political ventures for the time being. Parliamentarians have somehow different opinions about the controversy, but PML-N leading politician and one of the close aides of Mian Nawaz Sharif Khawaja Asif terms it as the mutiny against the nation as well as the army. "Don't be hesitant or ask me whether the implications include Article 6, be optimistic enough to call it a mutiny against nation and its army", Khawaja Asif said. He also said referring to ISI that some institutions have received all related evidences including the secret conversations of Mr. Husain Haqqani with Mansoor Ijaz as well as the blackberry codes. "Fire is set som...