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Consensus Between PPP & PML (N) in Linking with Lobbying Firms In Washi
2008-05-07 22:00:00 It is the norm that a new government in a country changes its lobbying link in Washington, DC as well. Presently, while the late Bhutto’s Pakistan People Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) are busy in keeping their alliance intact on the issue of restoration of sixty judges, they are also discussing the selection of two new lobbying and public relations firms in Washington to represent Pakistan. Currently Van Scoyoc Associates and Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide do lobbying and public relations for Pakistan. The country’s contacts with these firms will end within next few weeks. As these two major parties have negotiated the number and distribution of their ministries, reflecting the number of seats they have won in the Pakistani national assembly, they are also discussing with each other as to which two lobbying firms they are both comfortable with in Washington. In Islamabad, PPP is a bigger partner than PML (N) because it won more seats in the national as...
Rehman Dakait and Arshad Pappu : Lyari Gang War
2008-05-07 20:00:00 Lyari is the one of the most populous and oldest locality of the megapolis Karachi, but for the last some years it has become a no go area for the common people due to the on going gang wars in the area, in which hundreds of people die in the cross firing or gun shooting. Two leading gangs of Lyari are of Rehman Dakait and Arshad Pappu. Previously both worked together, but then got separated due to conflicts and then a bloody feud started between the two. Both gangs are busy in fighting with each other take control of criminal dens in the Lyari and the suburbs. Recently the skirmishes between the both groups have increased many folds. Rehman Dakait has been involved in the abduction of industrialists from the S.I.T.E area Karachi and now police have launched a massive operation against this gang war. About 150 policemen along with armored carriers and mobiles launched the drive against criminal gangs in the locality and up till now six people have died. Police should eradicate these... More About: Gang
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Judges Restoration : Breakup or Breakthrough
2008-05-07 18:00:00 Though Jamat Islami leader Qazi Hussain Ahmed thinks that breakup of People’s Party and Muslim League-N coalition would strengthen the dictatorship, but the ground realities say that their breakup would pose a real battle ground for the dictatorship. The delaying tactics by PPP in the reinstatement of judges and the way they have tried to postpone the by election to damage PML-N have established it beyond doubt that PPP is acting in connivance with the Pervez Musharraf according to the script dictated by the Johan Negroponte and Richard Boucher. Farooq H. Naek who looks Mohammad Ali Durrani reincarnated is hopeful of a positive outcome of the meeting as ever, but Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim, Aitzaz Ahsan and the PML-N members of the committee are utterly hopeless as no progress has been made so far in the direction of bringing up resolution on 12th May for the reinstatement of judges. Pakistan People’s Party is stressing upon PML-N to accept the Dogar judges of Nov. 3 PCO along wi...
Flour Crisis Rooting Out
2008-05-07 17:00:00 One of many prime responsibilities of the government is to supply flour to the people at affordable prices everywhere in the country through either utility stores or through the general markets. Along with the ample supply of the flour, government needs to keep a strict check on smuggling and hoarding of the flour. The inter-provincial ban on the transport of wheat and flour is timely and it should be observed more strictly and the supply of flour between the provinces should only be conducted through the governments. Another factor in alleviating the flour crisis in the country is to ensure that the prices in the markets of flour and wheat remains the same throughout the country according to the price fixed by the authorities. Smugglers, price hikers, hoarders and other elements involved in the flour crisis should be punished publicly and severely to set an example. Whatever government does, it should do it swiftly, transparently and professionally to ensure the relief to the commo...
Raja Petra Kamaruddin, Malaysian Blogger Charged
2008-05-07 14:27:00 A Malaysian blogger was charged on Tuesday with sedition over an article he wrote linking a top government leader and his wife to the gruesome killing of a Mongolian woman. Raja Petra Kamaruddin, founder and editor of the popular Malaysia Today site, had posted an article which allegedly implicated Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak and his wife, Rosmah Mansor, in the October 2006 murder. The 57-year-old Raja Petra pleaded not guilty after the charge was read out to him over the article, which prosecutors say contained “sentences deemed seditious.” “We bloggers have declared war on the government. Our final objective is to change the government,” Raja Petra declared before he was charged. Supporters, including opposition lawmakers and other bloggers, thronged the court in a show of support. Represented by seven lawyers, a defiant Raja Petra declined to post the 5,000 ringgit bail ($1,600) set by judge Nurmala Salim, preferring to be jailed until his October 6 trial date. “I... More About: Blogger
Root Cause of Restiveness
2008-05-07 13:00:00 Is the root cause Nawaz Sharif or Pervez Musharraf? If any one of the both quits the rule, the strong possibility is that the shenanigans of the power politics would end, which are emanating from the camp office Rawalpindi. The extreme and mighty focus of General (r) Pervez Musharraf right now is to oust Nawaz Sharif ... More About: Politics
Suicide Bombers Again
2008-05-07 12:00:00 According to the interior ministry, five suicide bombers may strike in any city or any figure in the country in the following days. This is the news we have heard after the gap of some time. When the new government came and it started the change process on surface, the winds of national reconciliation also reached ... More About: Politics , War On Terror , Bush administration
A FOUR MINUTE MILE, OR YOUR CHALLENGE
2008-05-07 12:00:00 Roger Bannister was the first man on record to break the four minute mile. You must remember that at one time it was considered a physical impossibility to run a four minute mile. Bannister proved them wrong and his name went into the record books. Not only did he break the record, he destroyed it, ... More About: Lord
As I ran hundred miles
2008-05-07 07:00:00 As the dew sets in early in the morning As wake up calls echo like the sirens When the conscience begins to question The meaning and of its relations There exists a place, where foes turn into friends And friends into foes ? explicit markings There I ran hundred miles with the old friend In anger and in pain, as the rain kicked ... More About: Misc , Miles
Chaudhrys Get Last Chance
2008-05-07 05:00:00 Though in their desperation, Chaudharys of Gujrat asked tough questions from Pervez Musharraf when he ordered them to step down from the leadership of PML-Quisling, Musharraf didn’t like his own child showing red eyes to him. He brushed away the protests of Chaudharys and graciously awarded them a last chance. Musharraf wants to escape from impeachment ... More About: Chance
Education, a Horizon based Methodology
2008-05-07 01:00:00 If I revert back my discussion, to the highest parameter or peak stage of education where shattering and sub domains are formed, ?????..I would have an opinion that it is this central destination that is known as basic education. More About: Education , System , Features
High Prices : Another Suicide
2008-05-06 22:00:00 According to the media reports, a 37-year-old man doused himself in kerosene oil and set himself on fire in Topi bazaar on Monday in protest against skyrocketing prices and unemployment. Mohammad Shafiq, a farmer from Charoona, 56 kilometers south-east of Swabi, in the Gadoon Amazai area, had gone to the bazaar to buy foodstuff for ...
Legal Committee for Judges Crumbling
2008-05-06 17:00:00 After the resignation of Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim from the legal committee for the judges, Aitzaz Ahsan, the president of Supreme Court Bar Association has also expressed his disappointment over the proceedings. He has told law minister Farooq H. Naek that if committee doesn’t finalize the recommendations today, then he would also leave the committee. The reason ... More About: Politics , Legal
lets live!
2008-05-06 17:00:00 A famous old dead playwright once wrote,”Comedy is nothing,but tragedy differed”. Please dont mind my indifference;to the local news of judges (un)restored,or staying at their present creace,as i dont want to indulge in something i cannot change. As for my comedy,i dont keep track of my jokes. I,along with many other wise cracks often wonder,mostly with awe,that with ... More About: Politics , Hillary Clinton , Live , Eureka , Roosevelt
Education comes first!
2008-05-06 07:00:00 The nation is bewildered & don’t know what to do & whom to believe. Inflation is at it’s peak & will be up & up in the coming days as price of oil world wide is flying. The out come of Feb.18 election is yet to be witnessed after a month & half but the question ... More About: Politics , Education
Musharraf Likes to Depose Chaudharies
2008-05-05 22:00:00 President General (r) Pervez Musharraf , who have ruled this country with iron hands have acquired a knack of deposing anything which has ‘Chaudhary’ in its name. He relished it with gusto while deposing Chaudhary Iftikhar multiple times, and now he is bent on deposing Chaudhary Shujaat from the leadership of PML-Q. Though there is a huge ...
Nawaz Sharif?s Way
2008-05-05 19:38:00 Let’s all admit that the marriage of PML-N and PPP was an obstacle and there never was the mutual going along from the onset. Now as the split is pretty much obvious and it would only widen with the passage of time, Nawaz Sharif should now take over his role as the sole and most ...
Fakhrauddin G. Ibrahim Quits
2008-05-05 19:35:00 Former Governor of Sindh and a very well known lawyer of the country, Fakhrauddin G. Ibrahim has resigned from the legal committee discussing the reinstatement of deposed judges. He has resigned from the committee at a very critical juncture, when the whole nation waits for the second deadline of 12th May. Fakhrauddin G. Ibrahim has refused ... More About: Politics
PML-Q without Chaudharys of Gujrat
2008-05-05 17:00:00 As the rifts between the leadership of PML-Q and General (r) Pervez Musharraf are widening, the hopefuls like Hamid Nasir Chattha, Manzoor Hussain Wattoo, Sheikh Rashid Ahmed and Humayun Akhtar Khan are becoming hyperactive in the presidency to paint a rosy picture for the retired General and weakening President. Sheikh Rashid Ahmad is reported to ...
Bye Elections Pakistan Postponed Again to 18th August
2008-05-05 15:00:00 One another proof of the prevailing impression that power still hasn’t transfered to the elected government, and still resides in the President House is the affairs of The Election Commission of Pakistan . The bye-elections have been postponed once again. As soon as Aitezaz Ahsan, the sipasalar of lawyers movement submitted his papers to contest the bye-elections ... More About: Elections , Features
Political Charisma : Asif Ali Zardari
2008-05-05 14:00:00 According to Dick Morris, the political consultant, “charisma is the most elusive of political traits because it doesn’t exist in reality; only in our perception once a candidate has made it by hard work and good issues.” That is the classical explanation of Asif Ali Zardari . He was the man who was just some months ago ... More About: Politics , War On Terror , Political , Charisma
The plastic bag
2008-05-05 13:00:00 No longer needed, The art of appeasement The life she led Throws she in the air, Her belongings, unwanted From years of apprehension comes forward, Another witness She killed herself, not me! More About: Misc
Tariq Azizuddin : Forgotten Ambassador
2008-05-05 09:00:00 Tariq Azizuddin, his driver and his bodyguard had disappeared on February 11 while they were going toward the Afghan border from Peshawar. Then a video was released which showed the abducted ambassador pleading for his release from the authorities and his friends amidst the masked men with weapons pointing at the ambassador. The anguish of the ... More About: War On Terror , Afghanistan , Features
Zardari?s Great Game: Part 2
2008-05-05 06:00:00 An update on the previous post: Zardari dancing on the tunes of the establishment. The script has been written down. All actors are dancing to music played by the forces behind the scenes. The works of the establishment: Zardari’s murder cases dropped Zardari’s corruption cases dropped BA requirement dropped By-elections delayed Attacks on lawyers, another massacre in Karachi and attack on ... More About: Features , Great
Trip to Earth
2008-05-05 05:00:00 As we descend into this universe With gifts of existence and purpose Awaits in its traps the old burden Of responsibility and freedom Kicks in these old questions of place and of uniformity Far you will not go, Wear those shackles Of life and its choices Pours out our blood In elation and in pain As we descend into this universe With gifts of existence and purpose! More About: Earth , Misc
Pir Pagara for PML-Q : Vultures Wait
2008-05-05 04:00:00 Pir Sahab Pagaro, an aging political and religious figure who runs his own faction of Muslim League and who also runs a huge gang of dacoits in the interior Sindh has been called over to pull Musharraf at this troubled time, when PML-Q, the Musharraf Party, is disintegrating fast. Pir Pagara is surprisingly the choice of ... More About: Politics , Wait
Uncommitted Committee
2008-05-05 01:00:00 After the still mystery-shrouded Dubai talks between Asif Ali Zardari and Mian Nawaz Sharif, a new committee was formed by both leaders to work on presenting a resolution on the restoration of judges on 12th May. Led by Law Minister Farooq H Naek, the committee comprises Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Aitzaz Ahsan, former law ... More About: Politics , Committee
Too Many Cooks Spoiling the Broth
More articles from this author:2008-05-04 23:00:00 I wonder where this national reconciliation would lead to. From MQM to ANP and from BNP-Awami to PML-Q, everybody is being weighed in to join the fray at the center and at the provincial level, with the PPP. National reconciliation is a good theoratical notion but in practice it would only lead to mayhem and ... More About: Politics 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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