The Pakistani Spectator

A Candid Blog


Posts Tagged ‘Asif Ali Zardari’

PPP Targeting Punjab

By Rohail Butt • Feb 3rd, 2012 • Category: Politics

With pain and sadness I am writing this post. I really don’t like to talk about the provincial and ethnic disharmony, but now the water has risen above the heads, as the federal government in Islamabad has started playing politics on the corpses in the Punjab.
It was a common knowledge in Punjab that Pakistan People’s [...]



NO Immunity for Zardari

By A Khokar • Jan 21st, 2012 • Category: Politics

In April 1999, Swiss courts caught three criminals; Asif Ali Zardari, Miss Benazir Bhutto and their partner Dr. J. Schlegelmilch, a Swiss lawyer, on laundering some 60 million of stolen and kick back money stashed in Swiss banks accounts. This alerted the Pakistani government and Pakistan put up a claim in the Swiss courts that [...]



Zardari Can Have Musharraf’s Head with 1 Billion and Immunity

By Shayan Khan • Jan 20th, 2012 • Category: Politics

We all know about the bounty offered by Jamhoori Wattan Party (JWP) President Talal Akbar Bugti, the son of assassinated Akbar Khan Bugti, has offered and for what.
You will be surprised to know that there are some people who don’t really hate Musharraf in Pakistan. Yes that’s true, but even then they want that [...]



What Mr Zardari Brewed from NRO

By Inam R Sehri • Jan 19th, 2012 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

Today, on 16th January 2012, the Supreme Court of Pakistan has issued contempt of the court notice to the sitting Prime Minister of Pakistan Mr Gilani for not implementing the SC’s judgment on NRO originally announced on 16th December 2009. Once again a PM is going to be sacrificed for one person in the [...]



Last Days of the PPP Government

By Rohail Butt • Jan 11th, 2012 • Category: Politics

Decisions have been made, new directions have been given, players have been informed, and the present dispensation of the Pakistan People’s Party wants to save something for them while they cling desperately to the last straws of their not-so-bright rule.
President Asif Ali Zardari is once again scheduled to be on the run. President’s sudden [...]



Zardari says: NO to Supreme Court Order

By A Khokar • Jan 6th, 2012 • Category: Politics

The Honourable Supreme Court on January 3 gave a seven-day deadline to the government for the implementation of the National Reconciliation Ordinance, which included an order to the government to write a letter to Swiss authorities to reopen cases against President Asif Ali Zardari.
But Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) categorically refused to submit a letter to [...]



SCP Cut-Off Date

By Aftab Alam • Jan 5th, 2012 • Category: Politics

Their lordship, Supreme Court of Pakistan has been showing extreme clemency towards this regime thus far but our ‘may bay’ Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani and his godfather Asif Ali Zordari are not going to budge a little in terms of compliance of Apex Court judgment whereby the regime has been directed to withdraw the [...]



He Came, He Saw, He Conquered

By Faiz Al-Najdi • Jan 4th, 2012 • Category: Politics

Irshad Salim – a consultant, journalist/writer and a motivational speaker, who is an American national of Pakistani origin living in New York and currently visiting Jeddah in Saudi Arabia on a professional consultancy assignment with a local contractor gave an informal talk to Pakistani expats, and said he still loves Pakistan, calling himself a “stranded [...]



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 [...]



Benazir Murder Was Disastrous Than Quaid-e-Azam Death

By Umer Toor • Dec 30th, 2011 • Category: Politics

When Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah died in 1948, he was already been sidelined by Liaquat Ali Khan and his acolytes in the establishment. And also Quaid-e-Azam had completed his mission of founding the new country of Pakistan. His mission was accomplished and though his death was a very sad event, but it wasn’t a disastrous [...]