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Posts Tagged ‘Khurshid Shah’

Justice May be Blind

By Shaukat Masood Zafar • Dec 20th, 2011 • Category: Politics

The promotion of administration of justice and rule of law are of paramount importance. This is backed with a stated commitment to equal justice for all which includes ensuring access to justice equally for elite and for the economically and socially disadvantaged members of the community but it remains a remote perspective for disadvantaged groups [...]



Floods 2011 in Pakistan

By Muskan Hina • Jul 1st, 2011 • Category: Politics

July is once again here. In late July last year, the Indus river basin in Pakistan saw worst of the floods. The damage to life and property was huge not only due to the natural calamity but also due to the mismanagement and the intentional manipulation by the feudal to save their land and to [...]



High-Pressure Slickness

By Irfan Waheed • Nov 6th, 2009 • Category: Politics

One thing that the current crowd around President Asif Ali Zardari is adept is “glibness.” Unctuous attitude by the ministers, advisors and other office holders of this regime has achieved new heights. They can present coughing of Zardari as the most melodious song every sung.
From Dr. Babar Awan to Khurshid Shah and from Fauzia Wahab [...]



Khurshid Shah’s Shut-up Call to Kamran Khan

By Gul Raiz • Aug 13th, 2009 • Category: Politics

GEO’s anchor Kamran Khan has been condemned by a veteran parliamentarian Khurshid Shah, who normally remains very calm, quiet and tolerant. But it seems that he had had enough of the man and he outbursted on the floor of the house and asked the national assembly to bring Kamran Khan to the floor and inquire [...]



Prime Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi?

By Sameer Shaharyar • Mar 19th, 2008 • Category: Politics

The coalition partners PPP, PML-N, ANP, and JUI-F has shared the same feeling that they are not comfortable with Makhdoom Amin Fahim as the next Prime Minister of Pakistan. This view as mutually shared in the joint meeting by the representatives of these parties in Islamabad.
Mian Raza Rabbani, Sherry Rahman, Raja Parvaiz Ashraf, Khurshid Shah [...]