MicroPakistanMicroPakistanMicroPakistan looks at Pakistan through a microscope. It doesnt concern itself with the big picture. There is no need for facts and figures here. This blog is about things that concern Pakistani people as a nation. It concerns human developement, not Articles
Pakistan: Can we change? by Freddie
2008-05-31 09:02:00 Pakistan: Can we change? The present author has in the past made his views clear on Pakistan?s broad model for success: the vision of Iqbal combined with the illustriousness of Jinnah. What is far less clear to all and sundry however, the present author included, is how exactly to go about this. It seems that Pakistan ... More About: Freddie , Change , Pakistan
Proposed Sale of Government Owned Saudi Pak Commercial Bank
2008-04-15 08:57:00 I am posting a press note that was issued a couple of weeks ago against the proposed sale of Saudi -Pak Commercial Bank. This note claimed that the proposed sale would be in violation of Pakistani laws and the Constitution. It does a good job of detailing all the possible violations. However, below you will find ... More About: Economy , Government , Sale
Karachi?s Winter Days By Sehba Sarwar
2008-04-03 07:43:00 I’ve been living in Houston for some time, but I often return to Pakistan to visit my parents. In December, when I arrived in Karachi with my 3-year-old daughter, Minal, the city was spinning with more than the usual winter weddings, parties and reunions. President Musharraf had issued emergency rule to hold back a possible ... More About: Winter , Days
An Electrifying Address to the Nation by President Pervez Musharraf by Shah
2008-03-22 07:31:00 My Dear Countrymen, Assalaam-o-Alaikum! Today we - you & I - are, by the grace of Almighty God, making history. For the very first time a sitting government has been voted out and a new government voted in. For the very first time all political parties, but most significantly the losing party, have accepted the results ... More About: People , President , Pakistan , Nation , Musharraf
Dinner With Shaukat Aziz by Nayyer Ali
2008-03-18 19:33:00 Last week I had the pleasure of attending a small dinner with Shaukat Aziz , the former Prime Minister. In a wide-ranging two hour conversation, he gave his thoughts and perspectives on a whole host of issues facing the country and offered some insights into the past eight years that I found fascinating. Aziz, as most readers ... More About: People , Dinner
Restoring the judges by Ahmad Faruqui
2008-03-12 08:31:00 Justice delayed is justice denied WITH those words, 19th century British statesman William Gladstone coined a phrase that has echoed in political and legal discourse ever since. Indeed, he could have been speaking about Pakistan today. A miscarriage of justice took place in Islamabad exactly one year and one day ago. It ... More About: Judges , Judiciary
Where will the lawyers lead us? by Khaled Ahmed
2008-03-08 08:02:00 The lawyers’ movement in Pakistan will go down in history as an effort by the legal profession to set the judiciary right and prevent military rulers from using the higher judiciary to supersede the Constitution and make themselves legal. The solidarity within the community was significant and it created some stunning impressions on civil society ... More About: Lawyers , Ahmed , Lead , Khaled
Can You Hear the Alarm Bells Over the Trumpets? By Shaheryar Azhar
2008-02-24 10:12:00 Pakistan’s born-again democracy will fail. Musharraf will be proved right that Pakistan does, after all need ‘unity of command’. The worst of the skeptics will say “Pakistan is a failing state with or without Military rule but more slowly with than without”. Pakistan’s elite that consists of majority of Army’s brass, its bureaucracy, its multi-national ... More About: Pakistan , Hear , Alarm , The Alarm , Trumpets
Article on Cowasjee: Pakistan columnist doesn?t know the meaning of fear, L
2008-02-15 05:34:00 By John M. Glionna KARACHI, PAKISTAN ? Perched in the living room of his sprawling villa, security guards posted outside, Ardeshir Cowasjee is feeling a bit cantankerous about the future of volatile Pakistan .Another leader has been killed. He considers his president a pawn of the United States and accuses him of sponsoring the ... More About: People , Article , Meaning , Fear
Scotland Yard report into assassination of Benazir Bhutto released
2008-02-08 15:43:00 The bomb explodes near Bhutto’s vehicle following a political rally in Rawalpindi. The conclusions of the inquiry were outlined in a detailed report handed over to interim Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz by Detective Superintendent John MacBrayne, accompanied by a senior official from the British High Commission, during a meeting in Islamabad. var CNN_ArticleChanger ... More About: People , Scotland , Report , Released , Yard
Pakistan?s Forgotten Man by Aitzaz Ahsan, Newsweek
2008-02-08 05:54:00 In the past months, as the crisis in Pakistan has worsened, key figures in the Bush administration, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, have spoken out about the need for free and fair elections and have condemned extremism. Yet they’ve continued through-out to support the man who poll after poll show to be the least ... More About: Newsweek , Forgotten
The army?s camp-followers by Irfan Husain, The News
2008-02-05 17:02:00 IN my column in this space last week, I had expressed my puzzlement over the phenomenon of large numbers of educated, seemingly intelligent Pakistanis supporting military dictatorship over democracy. Since writing it, I met Shaukat Aziz, our ex-prime minister who is presently living in London. After our conversation, many pieces of the puzzle have fallen into ... More About: News , People , The News , Army , Camp
Honorable Chief Justice of Pakistan Responds to the Allegations
2008-01-30 20:04:00 [What a brilliant rejoinder from the Chief Justice ! The President really hasn’t been doing himself any favours by maligning the Chief Justice all over the world. This is a very well written letter and, more importantly, the Chief Justice has carried it off with integrity. ] AN OPEN LETTER TO: His Excellency The President of the European Parliament, Brussels. His ... More About: People , Pakistan , Judiciary
That time hasn’t come, has it? (Business Recorder)
2008-01-29 20:13:00 KARACHI (January 29 2008): The following is an unconfirmed and unverified account of a person who wishes to remain anonymous. The account is the narration of experiences of a senior foreign ministry official who, according to the writer, was privy to ZA Bhutto-Henry Kissinger talk and later witness to General Ziaul Haq’s outburst of anger against US in front of its ambassador. The question of veracity of this write-up remains unanswered and the identity and whereabouts of the official and the author of this story are yet to be ascertained, it makes for interesting reading, nevertheless: It was the year 1976 and the US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was on a visit to Pakistan, to meet the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Zulkiqar Ali Bhutto. The Americans wanted Pakistan to give up their nuclear project, and Henry Kissinger was on a mission to deliver the US President’s message to Bhutto. Mr Bhutto listened to Kissinger very patiently and then addressed him, “you ar... More About: Business , Time , Recorder , Cord
Junta versus Janata by Shekhar Gupta, The Indian Express
2008-01-21 21:17:00 The Indian politician bumbles, the Pakistan i general strides purposefully in his natty suits. Guess who keeps his country stable. Pakistanis surely coin more colourful political slogan than us. They are also less subtle. So, the next time you see visuals of a PPP protest rally on your TV screens following Benazir’s assassination, strain your ears ... More About: Versus , Express
Beyond Benazir by Husain Haqqani
2008-01-18 05:41:00 The Pakistan Peoples Party is right to keep her family in charge. By Husain Haqqani Los Angeles Times, January 16, 2008 The Pakistan Peoples Party’s decision to elect Benazir Bhutto’s 19-year-old son, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, as co-chairs of the party in the aftermath of her assassination is being ... More About: Politics
Lawyers? continued struggle for democracy
2008-01-16 05:55:00 Friday, January 11, 2008 Dr Tariq Hassan The present superior judiciary of Pakistan is a military-established judiciary handpicked to serve the interest of the establishment generally and to preserve and protect General (r) Pervez Musharraf specifically. The present judges of the Supreme Court and the High Courts of Pakistan have assumed office by ... More About: Lawyers , Democracy , Judiciary
Benazir: no hidden stooge of the government
2008-01-09 08:35:00 Tuesday, January 08, 2008 Amber DarrOn Dec 27, Benazir Bhutto was brutally and tragically murdered. Her death is a national loss, not because of what she may have delivered as a politician but for what she represented. Her image was that of a highly educated and sufficiently westernised and liberal leader who had the potential to ... More About: Politics , Government , People , Hidden
Of the same genetic sequence, yet?..
2008-01-08 14:25:00 [This one was forwarded to me by email. The name of the writer is unknown.] Here’s what is happening in India : The two Ambani brothers can buy 100 percent of every company listed on the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) and would still be left with $30 billion to spare. The four richest Indians can buy up ... More About: Pakistan , Sequence
Bhutto Assassination by Gwynne Dyer
2008-01-01 22:18:00 Benazir Bhutto did five years of hard ... More About: Politics , People , Dyer , Assassination
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari: From freshers? week to the political front line
2008-01-01 05:51:00 Here’s an article on Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and what is visible about him from his facebook profile. Rachel Williams Tuesday January 1, 2008 The Guardian To his friends at Oxford in the autumn, he was Bilawal Lawalib, just another ordinary teenage student enjoying the social whirl of his first term at the university. To the ... More About: People , Political , Week , Front , Line
My heart bleeds for Pakistan. It deserves better than this grotesque feudal
2007-12-31 07:53:00 Six hours before she was executed, Mary, Queen of Scots wrote to her brother-in-law, Henry III of France: “…As for my son, I commend him to you in so far as he deserves, for I cannot answer for him.” The year was 1587. On 30 December 2007, a conclave of feudal potentates gathered in the home ... More About: Politics , People , Pakistan , Heart , Grotesque
Pakistan?s flawed and feudal princess by William Dalrymple
2007-12-30 16:37:00 It’s wrong for the West simply to mourn Benazir Bhutto as a martyred democrat, says this acclaimed south Asia expert. Her legacy is far murkier and more complex (Courtesy: Guardian) ... More About: People , Princess , Pakistan , William , Feudal
My long journey with a vulnerable but brave charmer
2007-12-30 16:35:00 She bought fruit in a dusty bazaar, impressed me with her insights: two weeks later, she was dead Jason Burke Sunday December 30, 2007 The Observer Benazir Bhutto slipped off ... More About: People , Journey , Long
A Macro-Analysis of Barrister Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan?s Open Letter
2007-12-21 21:11:00 Guest Post by Hassan Baig (Accessible at http://pakistanmartiallaw.blogspot.com/20 07/12/open-letter-from-aitzaz.html) Barrister Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan is a leader in his own right. A populist leader even. Moreover, his read of the political spectrum and all developing eventualities is sensible and practical. But perhaps not practical enough. Ms. Benazir Bhutto is widely believed to be averse to the idea ... More About: Analysis , Open , Letter , Judiciary , Open Letter
The Plan To Topple Pakistan Military by Ahmed Quraishi
2007-12-01 07:59:00 [I am a bit unsure about what’s written here as it is almost a mini-thesis yet Ahmed Quraishi fails to address the most important issue for me. He doesn’t talk about the judiciary. There is no mention of what they did wrong, unless he is implying they were also part of the US campaign against ... More About: Military , Pakistan , Musharraf , Plan
He?s a General, He?s a President..oh wait he?s also a Judge?ahhh he has to
2007-11-29 17:19:00 [This piece was written before General Musharraf stepped down as Chief of Army Staff and took oath as President .] Even Superman would envy the kind of powers our man Mr. Musharraf has. After all not every man heading the army can impose an emergency, then ratify it as President and subsequently get it validated by the ... More About: Judge , Emergency , Wait
Permanent and Serious Physical Damage Rising to the Level of Organ Failure
2007-11-29 05:54:00 No, I?m not referring to any physical damage associated with my jaw dropping to the floor upon hearing George Bush say that Gen. Mr. Pervez Musharraf has not ?crossed any lines? in his full-scale assault on civil society. There are so many things to be said in response to that ridiculous statement, but one particularly ... More About: Physical , Failure , Damage , Emergency , Permanent
The day has finally arrived!
2007-11-28 14:39:00 [Click here for BBC’s article on General Kiyani. No doubt his rise through the ranks has been extraordinary.] RAWALPINDI: Pervez Musharraf stepped down Wednesday from the Army Chief post handing over the Army command to Gen. Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, who took charge as 14th Chief of Pakistan Army. Musharraf to take oath as a civilian president ... More About: Finally
Gaining a loss by Ejaz Haider
More articles from this author:2007-11-27 05:07:00 INSIGHT: Gaining a loss ?Ejaz Haider Were we better off until November 2 when the General wanted a compromise or are we better placed since November 3? By “we” I mean the civil society and political actors including the honourable judges of the Court? For all practical purposes General Pervez Musharraf is ‘home and ... More About: Loss , Emergency 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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