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 [...]
Every man has his price. After remaining away from the practical politics for more than two years, the pir of Hala, Makhdoom Amin Fahim has broken the fast of silence and has shed away all the principals and for whatever reasons he wasn’t enjoying the power, and now he has joined the coterie of President [...]
Maliha Makhdoom, daughter of the PPP diehard loyalist and Commerce Minister Makhdoom Amin Fahim (MAF), has been appointed as first secretary to Ireland. She has been hired as a Foreign Service official without fulfilling the prerequisites of appearing in the CSS examination and going through 18-month training in two different academies.
Her appointment has been facilitated [...]
Mustafa Kamal, Altaf Hussain and other MQM leaders never told us a lie. They, from the onset, told us that Mustafa Kamal was a “number 2″ mayor, and that was also vetted by a world body, though now the world body is stunned at the whole episode.
According to their website, the FOREIGN POLICY Magazine [...]
The coalition government is religiously pursuing the impeachment movement of President General (r) Pervez Musharraf and in that regard the draft of charge sheet is in the final stages of preparation and both NWFP assembly and Punjab assembly have passed the resolution in the favor of Musharraf’s impeachment.
Contrary to the many speculations, General (r) Musharraf [...]
After General (r) Pervez Musharraf, if Asif Ali Zardari should be grateful to anybody for his current role and the bountiful NRO, then it should be Makhdoom Amin Fahim, who still holds the top slot in the Pakistan People’s Party though its just a cosmetics.
The reason why Asif Ali Zardari is at the helm of [...]
Though this question isn’t pertinent when it comes to gathering the 295 votes required to impeach President Generel (r) Pervez Musharraf in the combined houses of 442, but it does have its very deep political implications.
In it’s preliminary reaction over the decision of both coalition partners PML-N and PPP, The Muttahida Qaumi Movement has denounced [...]
If demanding the restoration of judges, impeachment of Pervez Musharraf and formulation of policy regarding war on terror according to Pakistani interests makes somebody a trouble maker in the books of Asif Ali Zardari, then majority of 170 millions of Pakistanis are trouble maker.
Asif Ali Zardari has written a letter to the chief of PML-N, [...]
The horrendous slaying of Benazir Bhutto, the two-time Prime Minister of this hapless country, last year in Rawalpindi is still an unsolved mystery, and her own successors are pulling every cosmetic rabbit out of their grinning bags and still there is no initiations of any United Nations investigations. One also wonders as what wonder, the [...]
First time in the history of Pakistan People’s Party, a Prime Minister has been nominated and elected who doesn’t have a Bhutto in his name. According to many, it’s highly unlikely that any real Bhutto would now occupy the Prime Minister slot from PPP for a long time to come.
Even if Bilawal Bhutto Zardari manages [...]
