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Posts Tagged ‘Dharna’

Collision in Islamabad is Better

By Mohsin Sehgal • Mar 12th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Army is not coming. GHQ is silent. Boots are not ready to hit the roads of Islamabad. Uniforms are still unpressed. Establishment, after nine years of rule, doesn’t want to come again so soon. They have hardly managed to get rid of tentacles on 18th February. Still they want time to repair their reputation. They [...]



Pakistan Long March 2009 : New Hope, New Dream

By Ali Yar Khan • Mar 11th, 2009 • Category: Politics

No matter how much lies, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari of People’s Party tell us and no matter how much atrocities are showered on the lawyers, political workers, and civil society, the Long March is to happen and it is going to happen. Caravans are ready to depart for Islamabad. People from every walk of [...]



Azli Dushman (Pakistan Urdu Blog)

By M Mirza • Feb 28th, 2009 • Category: Politics (Urdu)


Zardari-Dogar versus Nawaz-Shahbaz

By Ali Yar Khan • Feb 27th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

What else you could expect from Zardari? The truth is that the man hasn’t yet believed that he has become the president of Pakistan, the country he so lavishly looted.
It’s also a blessing in disguise for the Nawaz Sharif and his brother and for their whole party. Their popularity graph is already soaring due to [...]



Who are Lawyers to Challenge Parliament ?

By Zeenat Rehman • Feb 26th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The time has come when the Pakistanis have to call a spade a spade. It’s time we decide who is supreme: parliament or some lawyers? Well, the lawyers movement has achieved it’s purposes by getting enabling the political parties and getting the dictator out, though there are also many other very weighty factors like the [...]