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Posts Tagged ‘Manmohan Singh’

Ub Tumharay Hawalay Watan Saathiyo

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Aug 21st, 2008 • Category: Politics

As America looked away and the army lifted his hands off the castle of dictator didn’t take much longer to dismantle. As Musharraf resigns, a vacuum of target has created for the politicos. Politics is inherently competitive and given the antagonistic history of PPP and PML-N, the coalition partners in the current government there is [...]



100 Days After Musharraf

By Muskan Hina • Aug 17th, 2008 • Category: Politics

It’s now a formality that Musharraf is removed from the President House and we have a new one at the top. I fail to see any immediate relief with the removal of Musharraf, or how would it benefit the country in the shorter run.
The coalition government has also failed miserably in its first hundred days [...]



Angst of Sheikh Jee

By M Mirza • Aug 6th, 2008 • Category: Politics (Urdu)


Amin Fahim versus Asif Zardari

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

Scarcely have you indulged in the politics of Pakistan, when you find yourself in the very midst of a sort of tumult; a confused clamor is raised from all the nooks, a million voices come to your ear at the same time, each of them express their vested interest, and not a single voice catering [...]



Wo Kam Karo Jo Rustam Say No Ho Ga

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

What an opportunity for Nawaz Sharif to genuinely become a national leader and cement his standing in the Pakistan, not just for political gain but for the national gain. The vacuum of leadership in the country is getting wider, and there is no one to fill it, and the dwarfs have failed after trying hard, [...]



Worth-Pity, Worth-Condemnation

By Ch. Naeem Sidhu • Jul 12th, 2008 • Category: Politics (Urdu)