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Posts Tagged ‘John McCain’

Jio Tu Asy Jio Keh Zindagi Ko Bhi Rashk Ay

By Mohammad Yasir • Oct 10th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Mera taluk punjab ke pasmanda tareen zila ki pasmanda tareen union council mud wala se hay.meray walid sab ka pesha zirat hay. aur thori se zari arazi hay. unki khawhish par main ne Masters kia jis par unhon ne kafi kharch kia. university education kafi mehngi pari..
aur haimain maqroz kar dia. 6 [...]



Afghanistan: Open Letter To Gen. Petraeus, Obama & McCain

By The Pakistani Spectator • Oct 4th, 2008 • Category: Politics

After his fairly good performance in Iraq, General David Petraeus takes charge of his new post as the overall head of the U.S. forces in the Middle East (including Afghanistan) on October 31. But now General Petraeus needs to acquaint himself better with the history and ground realities in Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and the Central [...]



The Women: Next Door

By A Khokar • Sep 10th, 2008 • Category: Misc

Amir Tahri, a columnist gives us an insight that what future holds for women in our neighbouring country Iran. Iran where even Shirin Ebadi: The Nobelist faces threats for backing women’s rights.
AHMADINEJAD’S NEW ENEMY: WOMEN.
IN one of his last sermons before his death, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini warned of “three threats” to his vision of [...]



Safety in “Big Daddy’s” Shadow?

By Dan Tow • Sep 8th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

I couldn’t resist a few remarks on my impressions of the recent American nominating convention for the Republican Party, nominating John McCain for their candidate. I’ll be relatively brief, for a change. American presidential nominating conventions have changed over my lifetime. In the 1960s and earlier, these conventions were news-making, business-like affairs, where important party [...]



McCain’s Houses and Zardari’s Accounts

By Fatima Tassaduq • Aug 31st, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

There is lots of hubbub going on in the Western media about a controversial answer by John McCain, the presidential candidate in the US elections. McCain was asked in an interview as how many houses he own, and McCain was confused over that as he was unable to recall the exact number, and even he [...]



We Have Broken it, So We Ought to Fix it

By A Khokar • Jul 21st, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Although we may be right in blaming US for the prevalent mayhem and anarchy in Pakistan but this was surely Pakistan’s own choice that they see themselves now gutted in this hell fire. It is their own created inferno which is eating it up and is turning this heavenly country’s western area into rubble and [...]



There is victory in sight for George W Bush?

By A Khokar • Jul 16th, 2008 • Category: Misc, Politics

Where as purported presence of Al-Qaeda among Taliban on Pak-Afghan border has so far served as a tool and a lynch pin of Neocons dream hegemonic policy in Middle East and Central Asia. US has virtually been showing its craze to depict Al Qaeda as an omnipotent force, an imaginary, invisible enemy in disguise to [...]



America Can Afford to Attack Iran

By Salman Mugsi • Jul 15th, 2008 • Category: Politics

America is using mainly English soldiers in Iraq with its own soldiers and taking massive help of NATO forces in the Afghanistan, and now it intends and has planned to use Israel to attack the Iran. For Pakistan, it has got Indian in the store. With no burden at all on it’s exchequer and with [...]



Change We “Can’t” Believe in!

By Faraz Beg • Jun 7th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Barack Obama’s presidential campaign hinges on one pivot: Change!
From US’s Iraq policy to Universal Health care and from Home Financing to NAFTA, he has got a plateful of changes to offer to the American people. And it’s not a surprise that the world is seeing Obama as the agent of change, but is he for [...]



Hillary Out , Now It’s Obama vs McCain

By Salman Mugsi • Jun 4th, 2008 • Category: Politics

According to The Associated Press tally, based on primary elections, state Democratic caucuses and support from superdelegates. It took 2,118 delegates to clinch the nomination at the convention in Denver this summer, and Obama had 2,154 by the AP count. So are we going to have an African American President in the world’s most powerful [...]