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		<title>Musharraf looking for PML-Q</title>
		<link>http://www.irfansyed.com/2008/03/06/musharraf-looking-for-pml-q/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irfan Syed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With apologies to those who don&#8217;t read Urdu, wanted to share the following. This is basically a satirical advertisement by Pakistani president Musharraf to find where PML-Q (ex-ruling party and his allies) have gone? Well they have all lost their parliament seats!]]></description>
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		<title>Australia says sorry to aborigines</title>
		<link>http://www.irfansyed.com/2008/02/13/australia-says-sorry-to-aborigines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irfan Syed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great great gesture from Kevin Rudd. I hope other nations/groups in the world get the courage to say sorry when they need to. This is only how a peaceful and better world can be created.]]></description>
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		<title>Do you do &#8220;wasi zafar&#8221; ?</title>
		<link>http://www.irfansyed.com/2007/11/21/do-you-do-wasi-zafar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irfan Syed</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[scratch balls]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[hehe, do you do &#8220;wasi zafar&#8221; (a.k.a. &#8220;scratch your balls&#8221;)? Well, Pakistani Law Minister Wasi Zafar does!]]></description>
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		<title>Long live democracy and freedom</title>
		<link>http://www.irfansyed.com/2007/11/21/long-live-democracy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irfan Syed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An old man protesting against imposition of emergency in Pakistan]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan declares state of emergency &#8211; but what does it mean?</title>
		<link>http://www.irfansyed.com/2007/11/04/pakistan-declares-states-of-emergency-but-what-does-it-mean/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2007 10:29:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irfan Syed</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pakistan yesterday night state of emergency in country for whatever reason. It is nothing new for Pakistanis as it happens at least twice a decade. The question is what does it mean? Article 9 of Pakistan&#8217;s constitution safeguarding life and liberty has been suspended. Several opposition lawmakers and activists have been detained. People can be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Son of Pakistani Law Minister exercises law</title>
		<link>http://www.irfansyed.com/2005/08/15/son-of-pakistani-law-minister-exercises-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2005 07:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irfan Syed</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Son of Pakistani Law Minister exercised law 3 days before country&#8217;s 58th Independence Day by beating up a flight passenger who objected that why the Law Minister and his son were not searched before boarding a PIA flight from Karachi to Islamabad. This looks a small incident but it tells a big story about the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attacks in Egypt have Pakistani link too..</title>
		<link>http://www.irfansyed.com/2005/07/25/attacks-in-egypt-have-pakistani-link-too/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2005 10:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irfan Syed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BBC is reporting that Egypt is searching for six Pakistanis suspected of involvement in bomb attacks at Sharm-ul-Sheikh resort. Another moment of pride(!) for Musharraf, the government and the people of Pakistan. It is really time for common Pakistanis and religious leaders to speak up and denounce acts of few which are bringing such a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take Out Muslim Holy Sites?</title>
		<link>http://www.irfansyed.com/2005/07/21/take-out-muslim-holy-sites/</link>
		<comments>http://www.irfansyed.com/2005/07/21/take-out-muslim-holy-sites/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2005 10:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irfan Syed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8633005/ US lawmaker Tom Tancredo says US could take out Muslim holy sites if America was attacked with a nuclear bomb. What a stupidity it is that a politician and leader will say such a thing. On top of it, he refuses to apologize! People from all religions, including World Jewish Congress, have condemned the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>London Mayor blames Middle East policy for attacks</title>
		<link>http://www.irfansyed.com/2005/07/20/london-mayor-blames-middle-east-policy-for-attacks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.irfansyed.com/2005/07/20/london-mayor-blames-middle-east-policy-for-attacks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2005 14:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irfan Syed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4698963.stm An interesting and valid point of view, but how many people will agree? Referring to my previous post, if Livingstone thinks so, should Pakistan blame its failure as a nation to this policy too? I long to know&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Oh Pakistan!</title>
		<link>http://www.irfansyed.com/2005/07/19/oh-pakistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2005 14:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irfan Syed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The country was established&#160;with a dream of&#160;freedom from oppression and protection of lives and properties of the common people. Somehow Pakistan never achieved that goal. Military ruled the country for large part of its life for its own vested interests, and now militants have also taken the&#160;society-forming role by killing common people in the name [...]]]></description>
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