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Posts Tagged ‘bhutto’

Media Wars: Geo Zardari Party

By Dil Nawaz • Jan 17th, 2010 • Category: Politics

President Zardari’s struggles against a ‘belligerent’ Geo News seems very strange,if seen in isolation. Supposedly Geo News is working for ‘freedom of expression’ previously against a dictator and now against a democratically elected president. Geo and its parent Jang group are well versed in judging the ‘trend of the time’.
Zardari is unpopular due his alleged [...]



Tariq Ali’ s “Leopard and the Fox”- The Bhutto Story

By Dil Nawaz • Jan 5th, 2010 • Category: Features

Like Agusto Pinochet and American interference in chile, CIA, Ronald Regan General Zia Ul Haq and Afghan Jehadis played a dangerous game with the destiny of Pakistan.
Tariq Ali’s Book “The Leopard and the Fox- a Pakistani Tragedy” sheds light on role of Thatcher government and BBC in extending a lifeline to Brutal Dictator General Zia [...]



Iblees Ka Sajda

By Kaptain Mirza • Dec 28th, 2009 • Category: Politics

The awaited NRO is defeated and buried but unearthed the same old faces who would want to come back for a kill yet sometime again, if we falter. We have been for the last 62 years. The glimmer of hope that each one of us awaited finally came. Reaching there seemed easy but for how [...]



Zardari, Sharif and Co. – The fleece that wouldn’t sell

By Kaptain Mirza • Oct 29th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Yet another feast and this is NOT a feat. The nation wilts and tilts to a position where there is no return. The Army is locked up, beefed up and engaged from where it cannot step back but from whence it has to return victor, no second option. Until then the pawns have to be [...]



Kaalay Qaul - Hassan Nisaar Say Ma’azrat Kay Saath

By Kaptain Mirza • Oct 2nd, 2009 • Category: Politics

Abba – zeest k warq per chann’d ek adhoori satrein, kuch mitti huwi, kuch mad’hamm, kuch bhoolai gaeein, kuch aansoo’oan say nehlaai gaeein, kuch dard bhari per ziaada tehleel kardi gaeein
Iman – woh Gosha, woh tijaarat jo kisi mehnat ya sanyaas k baad na mila, buss kissi gunahgaar k do gumnaam say aansoo is samander [...]



We Have Not Forgotten and We will Never Forget! Accountability of 1977 Coup Collaborators

By Hassan Amin • Aug 16th, 2009 • Category: Politics

MQM Quaid, Altaf Hussain addressed the General Workers Meeting by phone today. Commenting on the present political scenario, the Quaid emphasized that parties should avoid harping on former President Musharraf’s accountability, adding that if he is put on accountability, then the process of accountability should be extended for everyone across the board. Quaid-e-Tehrik underscored the [...]



Jamat Islami: The Apex of Hypocrisy!

By Hassan Amin • Aug 11th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Ever since the inception of Pakistan, Extremist Mullahs have always been vying to hijack the State. When I refer to the term ‘Extremist Mullahs’, I draw a line to separate, ‘Islamist Fanatics with a Political Agenda’ from the simple and true Muslim religious scholars who don’t belong to any fanatic organization or political party. The [...]



My Favorite Prime Minister

By Faraz Beg • Jul 26th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

It’s official, Mr. Gillani has dropped several places on my personal PM rankings! Well, it’s not like he ever held the top spot on that “premier” list, but he was a decent outfit nonetheless.
However, last week’s speech was a huge disappointment, not because of the lack of content, but because of his lack of confidence. [...]



Kya Hoa Tera Wada ???

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Jul 2nd, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

On the fourth day of the operation in the Khyber Agency, empty residences and so-called central structures of the three banned outfits of Lashkar-e-Islam, Ansar-ul-Islam and Tanzeem Amar Bil Maroof Wa Nahi Anil Munqar are under perpetual shelling of the security forces, and the escapted militants are now threatening for the retaliation and all the [...]



Who is Hariri to Interfere in Our Problems?

By The Pakistani Spectator • Sep 8th, 2007 • Category: Uncategorized

Are we really soverign? Who are we after all? A toy in the hands of every one? Who is Saad-al-Hariri? Who exactly he is to interfere in the Pakistani affairs? What mandate has he got and who has asked him to interfere? Has Lebonan solved all the issues or they have sent him here to [...]