IN THE LINE OF FIRE
By Pervez Musharraf
Reviewed by
Amicus.
With the publication of his memoir, In the Line of Fire, Pervez Musharraf has virtually launched his campaign for the next presidential election due towards the end of 2007. Through the medium of this book he intends to convey to the people of Pakistan what he has accomplished [...]
The Shahbaz has started to fly from crest to crest, from Rahim Yar Khan to Attock, and he has got a tall order in front of him. Not only he has to make do for the rampant bloopers of the past regime, he has also got to make merit an order of the day. What [...]
Chaudhary Shujaat Hussain is getting fits of frustration over his bleak political future. Though he is a veteran politician, he forgot that whenever a politician sells himself in the hands of a dictator, he becomes a smelling relic for the general public, and that is what Chaudhary Shujaat Hussain has become.
With his PML-Q disintegrating steadily, [...]
Whenever an Army chief wants, he could alter the constitution at his whim, and whenever he wants he could topple the elected governments, and whenever he wants he could send the judges home, and whenever he wants he could start operations in the country, and whenever he wants he becomes a President. This is what [...]
Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar has proved a very interesting thing that the land of Gujrat is very fertile for Musharraf. In the previous nine year, from the same city, another Chaudhary, Chaudhary Shujaat Hussain acted as henchman for him, and now from the same city, another Chaudhary, Chaudhary Ahmad Mukhtar is giving shoulder to [...]
It’s not for the fainthearted and the lion-hearted Musharraf has done it again. Look at the bursts of the bullets coming in from every direction, and every dick and harry is slinging mud and dirt over the President House, and yet the President stands their aloof and untarnished, as he knows that what he had [...]
In the villages, “Russa Geers” are rogues who steal the cattle of people. Chaudharies of Gujrat are famous for the cow “Russa Geeri.”, and the start of their enormous wealth is from this Russa Geeri. Their storage point for stolen cattle is in the bordering Jungle of Kashmir. They have also built bunkers and [...]
“If lawyers want to launch a movement, the government is well prepared to deal with it”. Wednesday, May 28, 2008, The News.
The above words are not from Dr. Sher Afgun, or from Wasi Zafar or from Pervaiz Elahi or from Mohammad Ali Durrani or from Sheikh Rashid or from Pervez Musharraf. These familiar words [...]
Like the audio tape of Malik Qayyum, the attorney general, another audio tape has appeared on the horizon. Ahsan Iqbal, the leader of PML-N has played an audiotape in the press conference with conversation about rejection of the nomination papers of the Sharif brothers. Ahsan Iqbal said he received the cassette in a packet delivered [...]
The impasse over the reinstatement of judiciary between PML-N and PPP has opened up a window of opportunity for the forces of status quo. These forces have got over their grief and ended their wound-licking and now ready to fight back and strike back.
Asif Ali Zardari have also sensed that the PDA coalition would have [...]
