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Posts Tagged ‘Hamza Shahbaz’

Time to Abandon Antediluvian Patriarchs

By Ali Yar Khan • Sep 4th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Years after years, government after governments, Martial laws after martial laws, the people of Pakistan have seen with agony and disappointment the failures, corruptions and prevaricated promises of their politicos and tyrants and now they have abondoned almost all of them, including the religious parties.
Pakistani people are long questioning their actual say in the state [...]



Give Zardari a Chance

By Gul Raiz • Sep 3rd, 2008 • Category: Politics

The efforts to strengthen and consolidate the democracy only got momentum after the peaceful departure of General (r) Pervez Musharraf. The very reason that there was no bloodshed involved in the bid to remove Musharraf and also there was no harm rendered to Musharraf is suffice to convince all and sundry about the eligibility of [...]



Ub Aik Haan

By Ch. Naeem Sidhu • Aug 31st, 2008 • Category: Politics (Urdu)


Silver Lining to PPP, PML(N) Splinter

By Muskan Hina • Aug 27th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Opposition is an equal partner in the parliamentary system of government as of the treasury benches and the more the opposition is stronger, the more the parliamentary system gets durable and solid provided media, judiciary, and the establishment behave themselves and politicians don’t get way too greedy and knavish.
Pakistan, after the nine years of absolute [...]



Six Months, Six Days

By Saleem Khan • Aug 26th, 2008 • Category: Politics

I was sitting idle so started reading old posts on my favourite blog TPS, specially the posts of last week of February 2008. These posts were full of hopes and happiness. Every writer/blogger tried his level best to portray the bright future of Pakistan after Election 2008. It is claimed that dreams are transforming into [...]



Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari

By Rohail Butt • Aug 23rd, 2008 • Category: Entertainment

The Central Executive Committee of Pakistan People’s Party has nominated the PPP Co-chairman, Asif Ali Zardari for the post of president of Pakistan.
Altaf Hussain has proposed the name of Asif Ali Zardari for President of Pakistan.
Salman Taseer, the governor of Punjab has put forward the name of Asif Ali Zardari for the president.
Qaim Ali Shah, [...]



Democracy Not Dynasty or Dictatorship

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Aug 23rd, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

But this is slavery, not to speak one’s thoughts. - Euripides
Though the dictator has gone, the dictatorship is still there permeated in the core of our society. The politicos have done well to keep the flame of struggle against dictator alive, but they are themselves dictator in their own parties. In the democratic societies of [...]