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PCO Judges of Nov. 3
2008-05-04 16:00:00 As a trade-off, Pakistan Muslim League-N has agreed with Pakistan People’s Party to include the Nov. 3 PCO judges along with the restoration of the deposed judges on Nov. 3, who refused to take oath from Musharraf under PCO. This was the last resort for the PML-N to save Pakistan Democratic Alliance coalition. Zardari wanted to ... More About: Politics , Judges
Tyrant?s Illegality is Stronger than Parliament?s Will
2008-05-04 15:11:00 Pakistan People’s Party’s attitude towards the reinstatement of judiciary is adding to the already piled up frustration of the people. One deadline came and went and a new deadline is what we have got. This new deadline is approaching fast, and the new committee has been formed to formulate the resolution. The previous committee failed ... More About: Politics , Stronger , Parliament
Kinhar to Khunjerab
2008-05-04 14:44:00 Traveled for days, in quest for patterns Raveling of existence From Kinhar to Khunjerab In days to remember, The old photographs Old features and formation From old Russian cigarettes To adventure with death In the old mountains Beautiful and serene Unforgiving & brutal Characters of past, From one town to another Followed we those steps As words follow the book Of all those moments and its loss as we traveled for days in quest ... More About: Misc
New Wave of Suicide Attacks?
2008-05-04 01:00:00 As the central Amir of Tehreek-i-Taliban, Baitullah Mehsud announces the end of negotiations with the government officials, Pakistanis across the country once again become very apprehensive about their security. It seems that this government is running in a circle. They changed the ‘war on terror’ policy and now once again have reverted back to the ... More About: War On Terror , Features , Suicide , New Wave , Condoleeza Rice
Why I Support Reinstatement of Judges
2008-05-03 22:00:00 To tell you the truth, I don’t have much hope from the current politicians to save democracy. I don’t have also any hope at all from the dictators to put the current in any phased or staged democracy. I don’t trust the media altogether, and I don’t have much trust in the sitting judiciary right ... More About: Support , Reinstatement , Judges
Reconciliation in Balochistan
2008-05-03 19:00:00 The new Pakistan Democratic Alliance (PDA) government has done very well to make friends and brothers throughout Pakistan. Not only this has puffed a fresh blow across Pakistan, but also has helped in washing away some of the smeared face of country by the operations in Wana, Swat, Balochistan , Islamabad and elsewhere. Vendetta and politics have ... More About: Reconciliation
Chaudharies of Gujrat Discarded : Hamid Nasir Chattha Enters
2008-05-03 18:42:00 The impasse over the reinstatement of judiciary between PML-N and PPP has opened up a window of opportunity for the forces of status quo. These forces have got over their grief and ended their wound-licking and now ready to fight back and strike back. Asif Ali Zardari have also sensed that the PDA coalition would have ... More About: Politics
Zardari Protects Abdul Hameed Dogar : New Questions Surface
2008-05-02 11:45:00 The impasse in Dubai on the restoration of judges has been broken but not for free. Zardari wanted to protect now Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar, as Dogar has proved an angel for him. Not only all the cases against Zardari have been removed thanks to National Reconciliation Ordinance, but also the ... More About: Politics , Questions , Surface
NA 55 Rawalpindi : Imran Khan Challenges Zardari
2008-05-02 11:00:00 NA 55 constituency of Rawalpindi is attracting the national limelight. This seat will be contested in the by-election which are going to by held somewhere in June. This seat was won by Javed Hashmi of PML-N by defeating one of the biggest bigwig of PML-Q and Pervez Musharraf’s close aide Sheikh Rashid Ahmad. As Javed Hashmi ... More About: Politics , Khan , Imran Khan , Zardari
Karzai?s Escape Once Again
2008-05-02 09:00:00 In the mighty presence of more than 40,000 armed-to-teeth US and NATO forces, Hamid Karzai, the Afghan President has been attacked four times since he came to power six years ago. The most recent attack was in Kabul and in this attempt on Karzai’s life during a military parade on last Sunday, Karzai survived unharmed, but ... More About: War On Terror , Afghanistan , Features , Al-Qaeda , Escape
Deadline is Dead Now
2008-05-02 08:00:00 Pakistan People’s Party has succeeded in throwing flies in the ointment. The time frame of thirty days given in the Murree Declaration has already expired and after the three marathon rounds of negotiations between Asif Ali Zardari and Nawaz Sharif, still nation doesn’t know for sure as what would be the solution to the crisis ... More About: Politics , Deadline , Dead
Apnay vaaday yaad karo !
2008-05-02 07:00:00 Murree Declaration ? Clause 2: This has been decided in today?s summit between the PPP and the PML (N) that the deposed judges would be restored, on the position as they were on November 2, 2007, within 30 days of the formation of the federal government through a parliamentary resolution. A documented, signed promise of the ... More About: Misc , Protest , Karo
The Scent Of a Woman
2008-05-02 05:09:00 THE SCENT OF A WOMAN A chapter in my forthcoming book, GRAVEL TO GOLD By Charles Towne I can’t tell you exactly how the accident happened; after all, I wasn’t there. I was lecturing in the public school system at the time and on the day it happened a buddy of mine was ... More About: Misc , Woman , Gravel , A Woman
Funeral or Burial
2008-05-02 04:00:00 We witnessed the funeral of desire held to mark the burial or cremation of the willingness. We witness the signatory of documents to show the signature is genuine. We witness, endorsement is a fact that what has been done, was against the desire of majority. We testify our failure, like always so to restart a new concern and ... More About: Misc , Funeral
The Insane Pakistani Spectators and Brainy Media
2008-05-01 22:00:00 Is he that much, as if president name can be used for abuse but Mr. Sharif uddin name could not be made public, as constitutional crime? More About: Media , Insane , Pakistani , Lal Masjid
Murree : Bhai Bhai ,,,, Dubai : hai hai
2008-05-01 15:00:00 The Luckhnawi bonds between Mian Nawaz Sharif and Asif Ali Zardari are evaporating fast. When the Murree Declaration was announced and after that, Zardari used to call Nawaz Sharif as his elder brother, while Nawaz Sharif used to call Zardari his elder brother. May be that was the reason of rift, and that is why the ... More About: Entertainment , Dubai
Zardari : Schizophrenic Man of Honor
2008-05-01 14:00:00 I write this with utmost sadness, as I am a great admirer of Asif Ali Zardari , the co-chairman of Pakistan People’s Party. Mr. Zardari rose from the ashes and took his party to the zenith of the horizon, when after the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, everyone was predicting the breakup of this party. When Asif Ali ... More About: Politics , Honor
Interview with Blogger Abdur Rahman
2008-05-01 13:26:00 Abdur Rahman is a thirty-something English Muslim from London but now living in the valleys of South Wales, where he lives with his wife and three children. He works in a local university, is the Muslim advisor at another local university and has been an open convert to Islam for the past 10 years. ... More About: Blogger , Interviews , Interview
The Cedar Trees
2008-05-01 13:00:00 Different it was then, In abundance, Flowers and fields of green The old protection of mysticism and cedar trees Along the dusty road With small mosque Few houses and animals Life slow in its steps As paces of time follow In circles, the seasons Different it is now, The disease and its effect Gone from the view The old fields of corn Flowers and wheat In view, from a distance Metal roads, ... More About: Misc , Trees
Simpleton Yet Tonal Commitment to Judges
2008-05-01 12:25:00 The Pakistan wants to see their judges restored and Musharraf out. It’s a simple and straight as that. Nothing less and nothing more. Pakistanis know that this new government doesn’t have the means, ability or caliber to resolve their issues like law and order, load-shedding, food shortage, price hike, employment and others, but they do ... More About: Politics , Judges , Commitment
PPP Finds New Allies
2008-04-29 22:00:00 Some of the veteran and experienced political analysts were predicting even before the February 18th elections, that now establishment has changed gears and it would use PML-Q as escape goat, while bringing PPP as it’s replacement and MQM, JUI-F, ANP and other would join PPP in the coalition government, while forward blocks of PML-Q would ... More About: Politics , Democracy , Allies , Equality
Zardari and Worms
2008-04-29 17:00:00 Asif Ali Zardari , the co-chairman of Pakistan People’s Party who accidently became one of Pakistan’s most powerful and happy man, has done what his late wife often used to do with the hapless people of Pakistan. He has went back on his word which he gave on the occassion of Bhurban Declaration. Zardari has said that ... More About: Politics , Worms
What?s More Important : PDA or Judiciary?
2008-04-29 15:00:00 One of the nicest thing ever happened in the turbulent political history of Pakistan is the coalition formation between PPP and PML-N. When these two and the other smaller partners like ANP and JUI-F gathered under the banner of Pakistan Democratic Alliance, it was thought by all that now from Karachi to Khyber and from ... More About: Politics , Judiciary
Members of Parliament and Common People
2008-04-29 12:00:00 With the advent of the National Reconciliation Ordinance a new era of differentiation has started which clearly segregates the Pakistani society on different lines. At one side there are the members of National Assembly, Provincial Assemblies and Senate who couldn’t be arrested on any charge as long as they are the members, thanks to NRO. On ... More About: Politics , People , Common , Parliament , Members
Don?t Ignore Talibans
2008-04-29 09:00:00 Like it or not, Talibans are a reality and quite a hard one and we have seen it in the recent years. Not only we, but also the foreigners have also seen their might in the FATA and Afghanistan. The erudite and affable Pushtoons are there for centuries sticking to their traditions and taboos and ... More About: Politics , War On Terror
Jewish and Muslim Scholars on Shia-Suni Struggle
2008-04-29 05:00:00 Washington, DC. In last May, an Asia Program event at the Woodrow Wilson Center cosponsored and featured Khaled Ahmed, a Pakistani scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center, and Yitzhak Nakash, a Jew and an Islam ic history expert of the Middle East and former fellow at Wilson Center. Ahmed said that, fortunately or unfortunately, most Pakistani Shias ... More About: America , Iraq , Israel , Jewish
Frequenct Fire Incidents in Karachi
2008-04-29 04:00:00 The day which goes without any fire incident in Karachi is a lucky day for some months. Strangely enough these fire incidents are on rise, and they are becoming a routine. Since the past six months many incidents have been reported. PNSC Building Hashmi Plaza, Electronics Market, Saddar. Shop 33, Service Sultan Building, Block 6, PECHS Carpet Shop at ... More About: Politics , Fire
For whom is EU mission working?
2008-04-29 04:00:00 The 2008 elections of Pakistan were declared as fair and transparent by both opposition and government?s parties. Some analysis had called these elections the most transparent elections of Pakistan. It is a long debate that what should be the parameters of transparency or fairness for election in Pakistan? How much is the electoral process democratic ... More About: War On Terror , European Union , Features , Dowell , Mission
Why in Dubai?
2008-04-29 02:00:00 I am just thinking aloud. I hope you won’t mind. Why Asif Ali Zardari has went to Dubai at this moment when the Pakistani is at the crossroads? When Nawaz Sharif has postponed his visit to London, why couldn’t Zardari do it? Why don’t they discuss and solve Pakistani problems within Pakistan? The freedom of judiciary ... More About: Politics
Oil Prices Destroying Economy
More articles from this author:2008-04-29 00:00:00 Mr Ishaq Dar, newly appointed Finance Minister from PML(N) had told the media that some finance policies of ex-government need to be continued. This was astonishing for the nation as the policies of last government headed by Mr Shaukat Aziz were completely rejected by the nation. In recent days, Mr Dar again told the media that ... More About: Economy , Prices 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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