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Posts Tagged ‘Mark Lyall Grant’

The life and death of the one-point agenda

By Faraz Beg • Aug 20th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Musharraf quits! So swiftly that it might even have surprised the coalition partners. And herein lies the big test for them. They had a common enemy, that common enemy is no more, and consequently, the coalition has lost its raison d’être. What’ll happen next is a test of their characters, sincerity and honesty. For that [...]



Options For General Musharraf

By Sameer Shaharyar • Aug 17th, 2008 • Category: Politics

In the fatherland, always the democratic governments come during the brief periods when armed governments decide to take rest. This time a new thing has happened as a democratic government has come, when still there is a dictator present and the democratic governments are bent on ousting that president without any help from the Army.
Army’s [...]



Back Channel Efforts for Musharraf’s Exit

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Aug 16th, 2008 • Category: Politics

It has been decided that Musharraf won’t face impeachment and neither would he be tried in the court of law for the charges, which are part of the charge-sheet prepared by the PPP-PML-N coalition committee. Army doesn’t want to humiliate it’s former chief, and establishment doesn’t want to open a new can of worms. The [...]