When you look at the number of colonial era laws that still continue to govern India, one could wonder as to why India bothered to get its independence from the British. Supposedly the British were getting it old wrong, and the new independent India was supposed to be a different story all together. One […]
Frankly
I have a principle which, for as long as I can remember, I have applied to my creative writing: I do not refer to any living person by their real name. Oh, I impugn the dead mercilessly and draw any number of coelecanths from the fathoms of my own imagination. But the living … if […]
Solitary confinement jail cells awaits Sharifs in Punjab and Sindh
Saeed Minhas Islamabad– Despite getting the guarantees from the Saudi Kingdom that former premier and PML (N) chief Nawaz Sharif would not be allowed to return to Pakistan, Punjab and Sindh Chief ministers have ordered the prisons departments in their respective provinces to prepare special cells in various jails for Sharifs in case they decide […]
Temporary bail to Sanjay Dutt
The Superlative Court of India on Monday approved temporary bail to actor Sanjay Dutt, who was sentenced to undertake six-year confinement. It also settled similar relief to five, who had confronted their conviction and sentence of imprisonment. A counter, including Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan, C.K. Thakker and R.V. Raveendran, but told the supplicants that they […]
Sanjay Dutt may spend Raksha Bandhan at Home
Bollywood superstar Sanjay Dutt who was sent to jail by a TADA (anti – terrorism) Court, which sentenced him to six years imprisonment in the 1993 Mumbai blast case under the Arms Act for possessing an AK-56 rifle and a 9 mm pistol has been released by the Supreme Court on Monday. The Supreme […]
Is America sincere with Musharraf?
Saeed Minhas Islamabad– Parliamentarians continue to kill their time in the halls of National Assembly and Senate, as their fate was being discussed by the President Gen. Musharraf through backdoor contacts with the exiled leaders Nawaz Sharif, Benazir Bhutto, Altaf Hussain and last but not the least with his mentors in Washington. Freshly appointed American […]