So our kingmakers are ready for yet another experiment in the land of the pure. General Kayani and Shuja Pasha haev also made up their minds; well almost. General Kayani is an ardent fan and follower of Professor Rafiq Akhtar of Gujjar Khan, who also happens to be the guru of Imran Khan and his [...]
Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaafs miraculous insurgency reminds me of the sudden rising of Islami Jumhori Ittehad (IJI) with 9 stars in the early nineties. Nation was crazy for the IJI and that political alliance swept the country thunderously from one corner to the other. Later we learned that ISI was the mastermind, executor, fundraiser, and custodian of [...]
Mian Shahbaz Shareef was high on pitch and the rhetoric,less on substance or road map. It seems PMLN has unlearned the art of opposition.It needs to go back to the primer. The first lesson being connecting and forming an alliance with people and parties opposed to the incumbent Zardari led PPP-Coalition Government.
With Shahbaz Sharif kind [...]
Well more rightly Shah Mehmood Qureshi is about to join his former and original party PML-N. Politics is the power game and with Javed Hashmi riding the solo train and Yousaf Raza Gilani enjoying PPP premiership, PML-N is trying to get its footstep in strong fashion in the Southern Punjab and what better way that [...]
Gauhar Ayub Khan, the son of former dictator Field Marshal Ayub Khan must be basking in unexpected glee as he got a chance to screw PML-N with full force from out of the blue. That, and the way PML-Q leadership landed in the Hazara division like vultures and played politics over the dead bodies has [...]
In 2008, Sheikh Rashid Ahmed got some 15000 votes, while the Aamir Fida Paracha of Pakistan People Party got away with 35000 votes. Javed Hashmi of PML-N won by taking some 76000 votes.
Then in next by election in this same constituency, Sheikh Rashid was nowhere and Haji Pervaiz of PML-N won by taking just 25000 [...]
The results of NA-21 Mansehra are amazing and very disappointing. They are disappointing for me not because I am favoring any party but because of the fact that those who have been exposed too many times before nation, those who supported dictators, those who are proven hypocrites and those who have no moral authority to [...]
When the by elections were scheduled last time in NA-55 constituency of Rawalpindi, Awami Muslim League’s chairman Sheikh Rashid Ahmed met with the leaders of JI and promised them that he wouldn’ t contest elections if JI placed it’s own candidate.
Now as the Apex Court has ordered the by elections in this constituency on 24th [...]
In Pakistan, very few religious leaders who have entered in politics have managed to retain their dignity. Most of them have never managed to gain and retain any widespread, mainstream, popular support from any part of the country. Even during the status-quo era of General Ziaul Haq, the religious leaders especially from Jamat-e-Islami failed to [...]
If you are under the impression that the President Zardari has shown the grace and has totally shed the NRO and left it at the mercy of the court of Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, then will all due respect, you haven’t still got the way this regime works, and you haven’t grasped the psyhce of supremo [...]
