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Posts Tagged ‘Dictator’

A Long walk back home

By A Khokar • Dec 29th, 2011 • Category: Features

Like Qaid e Azam M A Jinnah as founding father of Pakistan, in Turkey Mustafa Kemal Ataturk an Ottoman and Turkish army officer is the founding father of modern Turkey. As a revolutionary founder of Republic of Turkey he after defeating the allied forces gained remarkable successes in military campaigns to secure independence for Turkey. [...]



Libyan Dictator Gaddafi Shot Dead PICTURES !!!

By Mohammad Yusha • Oct 21st, 2011 • Category: Politics

Gaddafi, who ruled Libya for 42 years, was shot dead after having being dragged from a hole (pic above). Like Saddam Hussain, Gaddafi’s hiding place also happened to be a hole.
“We have been waiting for this moment for a long time. Muammar Gaddafi has been killed,” Mahmoud Jibril, Libyan prime minister, told reporters on Thursday [...]



10 Reasons Why I don’t trust Super Power

By Asad ur Rehman • Apr 6th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

America is the super power of the world. I don’t have any personal grudges with American citizens or the country itself. There are number of factors on the basis of which I have no faith in American governments.



In Fairness to Pervez Musharraf

By A Khokar • Sep 8th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Visit any TV channel or go through the print media, the hot topic under discussion is Pervez Musharraf’s trial for breaching the Constitution. Most vocal in this campaign is Mian Nawaz Sharif and his coterie. The pertinent question that comes to mind is, that it was not the first time that it has happened, quite [...]



Mr Prime Minister, You Forgot 160 Million Joe Bidens

By Farid Masood • Jan 13th, 2009 • Category: Entertainment

Tags: Musharraf, Resign, Dictator, COAS, Joe Biden.



Rain of Testimonies

By Sameer Shaharyar • Jun 5th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Now we fully understand, as why didn’t Pervez Musharraf, the retired commando didn’t give a damn to the verdict of Pakistani people on 18th February. He is a fascist, and the biggest characteristic of a fascist is that he lies with full conviction and then gets spanking by the same aides afterwards who earlier wagged [...]



Musharraf’s Lies Unfolding

By Sameer Shaharyar • Jun 5th, 2008 • Category: Politics

As if we didn’t know about this characteristic of our tinpot dictator. He lied about laying off the uniform, and he lied about the accepting the verdict of the nation. He said that he would quit if people would want him to quit and the defeat of his brainchild PML-Q would be tantamount to his [...]



Shooting the President

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Jun 4th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Mir Zafarullah Jamali should be ashamed as a man from his own tribe Taj Mohammad Jamali has washed the black spots from his tribe, by describing Musharraf of what he is worth. Where the former Jamali shone every boot of Musharraf, the latter Jamali has shown the shoe to Musharraf.
Whether call it an exaggerated verbosity [...]



A Billion Dollar Liability

By Farid Masood • May 30th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

When an asset becomes liability then it should be written off. President Musharraf took over on October 19, 1999. General public didn’t went against him and welcome his quo even he became in power by over-throwing an elected government.
Time passed so quickly till 9/11 of 2001. He bowed down his head after a telephonic call [...]



What Should Be Done To Musharraf?

By Sameer Shaharyar • May 29th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

It’s just a matter of time as Pervez Musharraf is ousted from the Army House, which he occupies in the name of Presidency. He enjoyed blind and brutal power for a long long time because as Thomas Jefferson puts it, “All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain [...]