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Imran says he’ll sweep the elections

By Masood Khan • Jan 30th, 2012 • Category: Politics

Pakistani cricket legend and opposition politician Imran Khan predicted that his party will sweep the next national elections and he will become the country’s next prime minister.
The 59-year-old cricketer  entered politics 15 years ago when he founded Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party and struggled to translate his sporting fame into votes. But his political fortunes changed in [...]



MQM’s Petty Politics on Provinces

By Salman Mugsi • Jan 23rd, 2012 • Category: Politics

MQM wants unrest in Pakistan no matter what. They have learned to exploit the natural human psyches by fear and by greed, and they use it to get their vested interests even on the price of national integrity and national security, and they spare no chance of it.
Now MQM has no stake or presence in [...]



Karachi Alliance of Zulfikar Mirza Ready

By Salman Mugsi • Jan 20th, 2012 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

Asif Ali Zardari can forgive and forget anything but anything regarding non-support of his corruption cases. MQM had sensed that these are last days of this highly unpopular government and they have also observed the confrontation of government with the establishment, and they don’t want to be seen much closer to the government in these [...]



The Dreadful Dacoits Deal

By Aftab Alam • Jan 12th, 2012 • Category: Politics

Exactly 8041 robber Leaders & Power Drunk Bureaucrats of Pakistan plundered 1,06,50,00,000 US$ (1.65 Trillion), equal to PKRs. 9,3200,00,00,000/- and this dacoity was declared legal by operation of Notorious Law known as The National Reconciliation Ordinance October 5, 2007. The amount is more than 6 Kerry-Lugar Bill of the US had been promised by US [...]



Imran Prime Minister, Musharraf Opposition Leader

By Maria Sultan • Jan 12th, 2012 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

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 [...]



MQM Prepares a New Round of Bloodshed in Karachi

By Salman Mugsi • Jan 7th, 2012 • Category: Politics

The unfortunate Karachiites brace themselves for yet another expected spree of target killings, arson, kidnappings, tortures, sacked-bodies, sirens of ambulances, gory images, threats, strikes and mayhem in their city as ruling PPP and MQM once again failed to sort out differences on Local Government System as the core committee meeting of both the parties [...]



Hung and Compromised Pakistan; Establishment Wins

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Dec 28th, 2011 • Category: Politics

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 [...]



3 Foreign Ministers in Imran Khan’s Team

By Maria Sultan • Dec 27th, 2011 • Category: Politics

Sardar Aseff Ahmad Ali was elected to the National Assembly from Kasur in 1994. In 2004, he joined the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP). He served as the Foreign Minister of Pakistan in the National Government led by the PPP from 1993 to 1996. He has now joined Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI) of Imran Khan.
Makhdoom [...]



Afaq Ahmed Resurrect MQM

By Salman Mugsi • Dec 19th, 2011 • Category: Politics

Since April 2004, the prisoner of conscience and the hero of the Mohajir people Afaq Ahmed was bearing the cruelties of the MQM, first during the era of Musharraf and now during the era of Zardari. MQM was partner with both as it cannot live without rule.
Government of PPP upon pressure from the MQM tried [...]



Usay Kehna December A Raha Hai

By Salman Mugsi • Nov 28th, 2011 • Category: Politics

Last year one funny makeshift poet of MQM wrote an incongruous poem like thing about Asif Ali Zardari and warned him that December was coming and he could be rolled over by the establishment. TV anchors also chipped in and started the talkshows and people started saying that as MQM had said that, an ally [...]