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Posts Tagged ‘Asfund Yar Wali’

Phir Milain Gay

By Rohail Butt • Aug 5th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Again the two leaders met and again the two leaders failed to reach on any consensus, and both left to meet again while people again looked at each other in bewilderment. Again the deadlock was on the judges issue and on the impeachment of Pervez Musharraf, though there was a change this time, and that [...]



Pir Pagara for PML-Q : Vultures Wait

By Ali Yar Khan • May 5th, 2008 • Category: Politics

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 [...]



Public Reactions or Intrigue Against PDA

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Apr 21st, 2008 • Category: Politics

When the angry mob of people, who were ill at ease with the 18-hours load-shedding without any respite and relief attacked the office of Multan Electric Power Corporation, government termed it an intrigue against it.  The government sources said that the way this incident was flared up and made violent in the city of Prime [...]



Freshness is Needed

By The Pakistani Spectator • Apr 20th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Change is there, but it is yet not in the control of the newly elected Pakistan Democratic Alliance. These are very tough times for the misfortunate people of Pakistan, as they are in strangled grip of all sorts of gory crisis.
Merely promising the dawn of a new era is not enough. The newly elected parliament [...]



Makhdooms or Khadims

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Apr 19th, 2008 • Category: Politics

The thing is that the reason why democracy is cherished and celebrated the world over because the elected members are supposed to be the servants of the people who elected them and not the serveds.
The people don’t expect their elected members to jump at the perks and privileges, rather they expect from them that these [...]



Decision Making in PDA

By Salman Mugsi • Apr 16th, 2008 • Category: Politics

The newly found love between the previous arch-rivals PML-N and PPP marks a grand historic step forward in the history of Pakistan. The most heartening thing is that the mutual agenda of both the parties converge on national cooperation and they seem to be committed to it.
Amidst all the controversies and the upheavals after 18th [...]



Clock is Ticking

By Salman Mugsi • Apr 15th, 2008 • Category: Politics

The Murree Declaration is looming large on the horizon reminding the newly formed government of Pakistan Democratic Alliance about it’s commitment to restitute the deposed judges after the 30 day time period. According to Khawaja Asif of PML-N, this 30-day time ticking started from 31st March when the Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gillani took oath.
Though [...]



Conspiracy Season

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Apr 14th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Yeah, Conspiracy-Hatching is the favorite pastime of our people, but the fire is where smoke is, and that is why we are so prone to believing on conspiracy theories because that is what goes on four-season in this land of pure.
The conspiracies are aimed at denting the unprecedented unity between the newly elected parties and [...]



Make-do Politicians

By Fatima Tassaduq • Apr 10th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Umr-e-Aziz Younhe Raigan Guzar Gai
Girtay Puttoon Ki Sada Bun Ker
Pakistan is an Islamic democratic state and the people of Pakistan got this country to live according to the will of Allah. People of Pakistan wanted such a place for themselves where they could implement the golden Islamic values in their true spirit, and where [...]



Bhai-Bhai Policy of Zardari

By Rohail Butt • Apr 6th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Asif Ali Zardari is getting over ambitious now. He wants to become more than a king maker and in the process he is bound to lose much of the accumulated luggage since the horrific assassination of his wife two-time Prime Minister and life-time chairperson of PPP, Benazir Bhutto.
After making Mian Nawaz Sharif and Asfundyar Wali [...]