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Musharraf and Mansoor Ijaz Not Coming to Pakistan

By Salman Mugsi • Jan 28th, 2012 • Category: Politics

It’s quite amusing and enlightening to know that both commando Musharraf and commando-aficionado Mansoor have developed some striking similarities.
Both have been kind of told by the one and only Rehman Malik, the ultimate security terminator that they will be both arrested as soon as they land on the soil of Pakistan. They have been told [...]



MQM’s Petty Politics on Provinces

By Salman Mugsi • Jan 23rd, 2012 • Category: Politics

MQM wants unrest in Pakistan no matter what. They have learned to exploit the natural human psyches by fear and by greed, and they use it to get their vested interests even on the price of national integrity and national security, and they spare no chance of it.
Now MQM has no stake or presence in [...]



Karachi Alliance of Zulfikar Mirza Ready

By Salman Mugsi • Jan 20th, 2012 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

Asif Ali Zardari can forgive and forget anything but anything regarding non-support of his corruption cases. MQM had sensed that these are last days of this highly unpopular government and they have also observed the confrontation of government with the establishment, and they don’t want to be seen much closer to the government in these [...]



MQM Prepares a New Round of Bloodshed in Karachi

By Salman Mugsi • Jan 7th, 2012 • Category: Politics

The unfortunate Karachiites brace themselves for yet another expected spree of target killings, arson, kidnappings, tortures, sacked-bodies, sirens of ambulances, gory images, threats, strikes and mayhem in their city as ruling PPP and MQM once again failed to sort out differences on Local Government System as the core committee meeting of both the parties [...]



Key to All These Problems

By Salman Mugsi • Dec 30th, 2011 • Category: Politics

It was quite funny moment ironically in the backdrop of tragic anniversary of late Benazir Bhutto during the yet another incoherent address of Asif Ali Zardari, who happens to be our president. In an emotional setting at Garhi Khuda Bux, President Asif Ali Zardari was found asking the Apex Court as why they hadn’t yet [...]



Afaq Ahmed Resurrect MQM

By Salman Mugsi • Dec 19th, 2011 • Category: Politics

Since April 2004, the prisoner of conscience and the hero of the Mohajir people Afaq Ahmed was bearing the cruelties of the MQM, first during the era of Musharraf and now during the era of Zardari. MQM was partner with both as it cannot live without rule.
Government of PPP upon pressure from the MQM tried [...]



Zardari May Eject His Anger on Supreme Court

By Salman Mugsi • Dec 8th, 2011 • Category: Politics

The meekness and weakness of Apex Court has shown this day when the incumbent PPP government is openly and publicly humiliating and ignoring the Supreme Court. Since the inception of this government, the Apex Court has played on the backfoot.
It was clear and vivid from the onset in Feburary 2008 that this government was corrupt. [...]



Usay Kehna December A Raha Hai

By Salman Mugsi • Nov 28th, 2011 • Category: Politics

Last year one funny makeshift poet of MQM wrote an incongruous poem like thing about Asif Ali Zardari and warned him that December was coming and he could be rolled over by the establishment. TV anchors also chipped in and started the talkshows and people started saying that as MQM had said that, an ally [...]



Time for Nawaz Sharif to Retire

By Salman Mugsi • Nov 15th, 2011 • Category: Politics

Politics is the name of deceit and tricks and dishonesty, at least that is the case in Pakistan and our President Zardari excels in that game, hands down. MQM chief Altaf Hussain is another player too, but he is more of a mafia man rather than a politician. Zardari kills the enemy without firing a [...]



PML-Q Starts Blackmailing Zardari Too

By Salman Mugsi • Oct 31st, 2011 • Category: Politics

It was quite amusing to see when a PML-Q delegation recently visited the Al-Murtaza House before visiting Ghari Khuda Bukhsh and offered its condolence to PPP-SB chief Ghinwa Bhutto.
Everybody knows that Zardari hates that family as they are the real heirs of the Bhutto legacy, and Zardari’s biggest nightmare is Sanam and Bhutto [...]