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Will Aitzaz Ahsan Join Zardari Team?

By Salman Mugsi • Nov 8th, 2009 • Category: Politics

The commotion and panic is almost touchable in the ranks of the Zardari regime which has strangled itself by its own hands, and now trying to get oxygen. In order to survive, President Zardari has extended hands to even those people whom he didn’t want to even see.
The leader of the lawyers’ movement, Chaudhry Aitaza [...]



Let’s all play…

By Chris Cork • Nov 5th, 2009 • Category: Politics

…Find the President. This is a game for the whole family. Everybody can join in. If you have an internet connection it’s more fun, but even if you don’t, you can join in anyway. The purpose of the game is to Find the President. Extra points are earned if you Find the President doing something [...]



NRO Puts Democracy in Eye of Storm :Bhuttos Turning in Graves

By Salman Mugsi • Nov 5th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

At one side, there is Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry who has rejected the government’s offer of allotment of a residential plot worth Rs30 million in Islamabad, and on the other side there is President Asif Ali Zardari who has defended the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) to retain the wealth which was looted [...]



Nawaz Sharif, You Owe It to the Nation

By Mohsin Sehgal • Oct 29th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Remember Nawaz Sharif slamming down Asif Ali Zardari, his corruption, NRO and other things during his public meetings throughout Punjab earlier this year, as Nawaz struggled to restore the judiciary along with lawyers and the civil society? Nation responded and responded in a grand way.
Despite of the hardships and the dangers, people thronged the streets [...]



Story of NRO

By Tazeen • Oct 27th, 2009 • Category: Features

In the light of the Supreme Court judgment against the Nov 3, 2007 state of emergency imposed by Pervez Musharraf, the NRO did not exist between Feb 4, 2008, when it passed its first life of 120 days, and July 31, 2009, when the ruling was handed down.
The NRO thus remained a valid piece of [...]



Time to Change Driver

By Irfan Waheed • Oct 27th, 2009 • Category: Politics

In a longer journey, all the passenger get to know after a while about the competency of the driver. An adept driver navigate the vehicle superbly on a bad road in bad weather, but an incompetent driver cannot drive a new vehicle, on a new road under bright light.
Zardari regime is desperate to legitimize the [...]



National Reconciliation Ordinance : Is It a Potential Catalyst?

By amicus • Oct 27th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

On October 5, 2007 the then President of Pakistan promulgated an Ordinance, ostensibly to promote national reconciliation, as the legend in the preamble claimed;
WHEREAS it is expedient to promote national reconciliation, foster mutual trust and confidence amongst holders of public office and remove the vestiges of political vendetta and victimization, to make the election process [...]



Freedom an Illusion

By Guest Blogger • Oct 25th, 2009 • Category: Features

They say freedom is the key to reach the world, full of bounties and comfort. That is why freedom should be achieved at any cost, to make this planet a heavenly place. The modern globe, we see today, emerged with slogans of freedom, which according to some schools, lead to prosperity and equality. But what [...]



Pakistanis Doesn’t Need Aid, Our Rulers Do

By Ali Yar Khan • Oct 15th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Without any exception of military dictators or the elected representatives, everyone of our paladins in Islamabad depend upon the foreign aid. The common Pakistan works hard from dawn to dusk, and has never tasted the aid, and that is why no amount of aid offered or given by US or other donors has managed to [...]



Chaudhry Nisar Once Again Pushing Nawaz Sharif To Disaster

By Rohail Butt • Oct 13th, 2009 • Category: Politics

It has become a common knowledge that the opposition leader in the national assembly, the parliamentary leader of the PML-N Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan is extensively meeting with the army establishment and some other king makers in Islamabad to topple the government, whereas the party head Nawaz Sharif is not happy and agree to it.
Nawaz [...]