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Posts Tagged ‘Ashfaq Parvez Kayani’

Desired Rumor

By Rohail Butt • May 31st, 2008 • Category: Politics

As General Ashfaq Kayani met with Musharraf and a lengthy discussion followed, rumors started to spread from Karachi to Khyber. First, the rumor surfaced that Pervez Musharraf has been asked to resigned by the chief of army staff. Then the rumor came that General Kayani has asked Musharraf to vacate the Army House. Then the [...]



No Mercy for Musharraf !

By ALE-Xpressed • May 30th, 2008 • Category: Politics

No mercy !

Now, that the news of Musharraf’s resignation are popping up, arrangements are being made to provide him the safe passage. This leaves me with nothing to be happy about. What difference will it make if he now leaves with a safe passage ? He might move to his heaven, Turkey and spends [...]



Don’t Involve General Kayani

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • May 30th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

First political parties relied on the lawyers movement to make the iron clad rule of Pervez Musharraf, and then they relied on deposed judges to ignite the wrath of the nation. They also did the politics on the blood of the innocent students of Lal Masjid and Jamia Hafsa, and they did politics on the [...]



Zardari’s Fear of Unknown

By Sameer Shaharyar • May 30th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Asif Ali Zardari has impressed the nation with his choice of words, but he has utterly depressed the masses through his timidity and fear of unknown. Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has feared that if he strikes directly at the forces of status quo, then he might be ousted from the government.
What [...]



Calling it a Day

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • May 30th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Triple One Brigade, the coup force, is basically responsible for the security of the President, Federal Capital Islamabad and Rawalpindi. It’s the tool of choice for staging the coup, and has been always used by the Boots to overthrow the elected government.
As Brigadier Aasim Salim Bajwa leaves for United States for a course next week, [...]



South Waziristan Sees Hope of Peace

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Apr 24th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Chief of Army Staff Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has graciously and sagaciously given the green signal to the ruling coalition partners to go ahead and have a try at political settlement with the warring factions in South Waziristan especially with the Mehsud tribes.
Awami National Party (ANP)’s Asfund Yar Wali has drafted a 15-point draft after [...]



Pakistan Elections Feb 18: A Roundup Of Fears/Dangers…

By Ghazala Khan • Feb 17th, 2008 • Category: Pakistan Vote'08, Politics

By Swaraaj Chauhan
On Monday (February 18) morning, 64,000 polling stations will open in Pakistan’s 272 constituencies. Polling stations are thought likely to shut at 5 pm local time, and counts will be completed some two or three hours later. So will the elections be fair?
“On a scale from terrible to great, it’ll be somewhere in [...]