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Posts Tagged ‘impeachment’

Zardari is Pagal?

By Rohail Butt • Aug 27th, 2008 • Category: Politics

New York Times, Financial Times, Daily Telegraph and host of other American and European papers and magazines are raising hell that nuclear Pakistan is going to have such a president next month who is diagnosed with a range of psychiatric illnesses, including dementia, major depressive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder.
It goes without saying that the [...]



Text of Agreement Between Nawaz and Zardari

By Gul Raiz • Aug 26th, 2008 • Category: Politics


Three Months, Three Days

By Saleem Khan • Aug 25th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Today, after offering Fajr prayers, I started reminding “Mr. Asif Ali Zardari and his promises” that he is doing with political parties, influential personalities and a Nation, since he is on the driving seat of PPP chairmanship after assassination of Benazir Bhutto on 27th December 2007.
One of his promises was that his government will officially [...]



PPP Exploits Election Commission

By Ali Yar Khan • Aug 25th, 2008 • Category: Politics

All that humbug about not manipulating the institutions like Election Commission and PEMRA by the government have been exposed as the power games in Islamabad heat up after the resignation of Pervez Musharraf and in the wake of presidential elections.
Throughout his reign, the tinpot dictator Musharraf abused the Election Commission to elongate and strengthen his [...]



Asif Ali Zardari’s : Man of Her Words

By Ali Yar Khan • Aug 24th, 2008 • Category: Politics

  “Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.” – Charles de Gaulle
The cruel, horrendous, gory, sanguineous, direful and horrific assassination of Benazir Bhutto cannot mask her weaknesses, and the biggest of them was to not to keep her words, and that is what has [...]



Zardari Really Between Devil and Deep Sea?

By Sameer Shaharyar • Aug 22nd, 2008 • Category: Politics

Pakistan People’s Party is about to go back on his yet another agreement with PML-N. The latest agreement was struck on 7th August, in which it was ideate that the deposed judges of Nov. 2 would be restored within 72 hours of the impeachment/resignation of General (r) Musharraf from the Presidency. The agreement was signed [...]



Antagonism Towards Judges by PPP

By Sameer Shaharyar • Aug 22nd, 2008 • Category: Politics

It’s the struggle of nine years of the Pakistani nation. People have sacrifices a lot. It’s a joint rejoice of lawyers, civil society, political workers and the people of Pakistan as the dictator has gone. How could one person give indemnity to the dictator just to save his own vested interests.
This sort of affairs must [...]



No Confusion Over Judges Issue

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Aug 22nd, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Asif Ali Zardari, the co-chairman of Pakistan People’s Party has thrown once again cold waters on the celebrations in the wake of Pervez Musharraf’s resignation by not restoring the judges immediately and now it is learnt that he is asking for more time in that regard from the coalition partner PML-N, which is ill at [...]



Coalition At Strained Juncture Again

By Ali Yar Khan • Aug 21st, 2008 • Category: Politics

Indemnification of Pervez Musharraf and the restoration of Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhary are the two bones of contention between PML-N and PPP once again, and now as the throne of Musharraf has evicted from in between, there is no excuse to delay this matter further.
Between 5th August and 7th August, it was agreed between Mian Nawaz [...]



Post Musharraf Scenario

By Farid Masood • Aug 19th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Whatever the case may be, Musharraf resigns willingly or compelled to do it or through impeachment process, there would be a great vacuum during impeachment also in Pakistan’s political leadership. We need to have a politically strong person in President’s chair. Thought the powers centers made be General Musharraf to survive may be curtailed even [...]