As America looked away and the army lifted his hands off the castle of dictator didn’t take much longer to dismantle. As Musharraf resigns, a vacuum of target has created for the politicos. Politics is inherently competitive and given the antagonistic history of PPP and PML-N, the coalition partners in the current government there is [...]
It’s now a formality that Musharraf is removed from the President House and we have a new one at the top. I fail to see any immediate relief with the removal of Musharraf, or how would it benefit the country in the shorter run.
The coalition government has also failed miserably in its first hundred days [...]
Scarcely have you indulged in the politics of Pakistan, when you find yourself in the very midst of a sort of tumult; a confused clamor is raised from all the nooks, a million voices come to your ear at the same time, each of them express their vested interest, and not a single voice catering [...]
What an opportunity for Nawaz Sharif to genuinely become a national leader and cement his standing in the Pakistan, not just for political gain but for the national gain. The vacuum of leadership in the country is getting wider, and there is no one to fill it, and the dwarfs have failed after trying hard, [...]
By Daniel S. Tow
www.singingsql.com
On the notion that this might be of interest to an audience in Pakistan, I’m offering an American perspective on the US system of government, especially on the American system of courts, the Judiciary.
Most law in the US is enforced through state courts, which have judges put in place through sets of [...]
Pakistanis used the name of former Indian President Dr. Kalam to blast their government. Thier point was that Indians bestowed the top office to the founder of their atomic programme, whereas Pakistan detained thier atomic father.
Pratibha Patel, the just incumbent president of India is not very well known in Pakistan. After assuming the office, [...]
