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Posts Tagged ‘NRO’

The Party is All But Over

By amicus • Jan 31st, 2012 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

During the PNA’s movement against Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto in 1977, an American diplomat’s phone call was intercepted in which he reportedly said: “The party is over”.
Notwithstanding the recent media hype about some imminent change ostensibly emanating from the memo and the NRO cases, does, after all not have the requisite sting to give immediate results. [...]



NO Immunity for Zardari

By A Khokar • Jan 21st, 2012 • Category: Politics

In April 1999, Swiss courts caught three criminals; Asif Ali Zardari, Miss Benazir Bhutto and their partner Dr. J. Schlegelmilch, a Swiss lawyer, on laundering some 60 million of stolen and kick back money stashed in Swiss banks accounts. This alerted the Pakistani government and Pakistan put up a claim in the Swiss courts that [...]



Maza Nahin Aya

By Ali Yar Khan • Jan 21st, 2012 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

Disappointment and dejection was palpable among various TV talk show anchors and their armchair analysts when they came to learn that the Apex Court didn’t ironed out Prime Minister and threw him out of the court, or that there was no storming of the court, and things remained cooler and calmer.
Many anchors were beating the [...]



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 [...]



Hire Aitzaz Ahsan to Soften Supreme Court

By Zeeshan Khan • Jan 19th, 2012 • Category: Politics

Just because barrister Aitzaz Ahsan, the blue eyed boy of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and his judges, appeared before the court to defend the Zardari-Gilani duo means that there is no more corruption by Zardari and there is no need to write letter to the Swiss courts, and there is blanket immunity and Pakistanis [...]



What Mr Zardari Brewed from NRO

By Inam R Sehri • Jan 19th, 2012 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

Today, on 16th January 2012, the Supreme Court of Pakistan has issued contempt of the court notice to the sitting Prime Minister of Pakistan Mr Gilani for not implementing the SC’s judgment on NRO originally announced on 16th December 2009. Once again a PM is going to be sacrificed for one person in the [...]



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 [...]



Supreme Court Opens Coffin of PPP Government

By Rohail Butt • Jan 10th, 2012 • Category: Politics

The last rituals of Zardari regime have started. Funeral will be held shortly or will they be cremated? Anyway, the pallbearers have started flexing their muscles and Apex Court has turned open the lid from the coffin of this dispensation, which is the most corrupt and incompetent, Pakistan has ever seen.
A five member bench of [...]



Is Chicken coming back home to roost?

By A Khokar • Jan 9th, 2012 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

After listening to the news that Ex-President Pervez Musharraf is retuning back home during January 2012; it looks as ‘chicken is coming back home to roost’— but is that the case?
Musharraf may be maligned for many things being a dictator but there is no denial that present Pak government was installed under US directive by [...]



Zardari says: NO to Supreme Court Order

By A Khokar • Jan 6th, 2012 • Category: Politics

The Honourable Supreme Court on January 3 gave a seven-day deadline to the government for the implementation of the National Reconciliation Ordinance, which included an order to the government to write a letter to Swiss authorities to reopen cases against President Asif Ali Zardari.
But Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) categorically refused to submit a letter to [...]