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Posts Tagged ‘Pervaiz Musharraf’

Chances of Military Adventure in Pakistan

By Mohsin Sehgal • Sep 12th, 2011 • Category: Politics

It goes without saying that Pervaiz Musharraf did to army which India or any other enemy never managed to accomplish. Due to his policies, military was exposed and terrorists attack throughout the country including the military installations did huge damage.
Not only Musharraf’s policies endangered the nation but also put the lives of the military officers [...]



August 26th ; another a black day in Pakistan’s history

By Syed Samiullah • Aug 26th, 2011 • Category: Politics

Today Baluchistan is no doubt burning thanks to ill-perceived policies by security establishment over the years. Unfortunately the men at the helm of affairs in our country have not learned lessons from history. The current security situation in parts of Baluchistan is not very much different from what those of former East Pakistan in late [...]



Musharraf Sooba

By Gul Raiz • Aug 16th, 2011 • Category: Politics

It would be a folly to create a new province consisting of Urdu speaking community on the basis of language or ethnicity. The people of Karachi and Hyderabad have got a separate identity from rest of the Sindh, and their culture, education, and status is very much different, so much so that Sindhis and Urdu [...]



Imran First, Musharraf Second

By Gul Raiz • Jul 30th, 2011 • Category: Politics

Change is really in the offing. A fresh survey from United Kingdom done in various cities and towns of Pakistan suggests that by the measure of public popularity in Pakistan, Imran Khan is at the first number, and Syed Musharraf, the former president of Pakistan is at the second number.
Another surveyed fact is that the [...]



A Forgotten Page of Pakistan’s History

By Inam R Sehri • Jul 20th, 2011 • Category: Politics

On 9th March 2007, the history of Pakistan took another turn, unprecedented and un-imaginable. Gen Musharraf had called the Chief Justice of Pakistan, Justice Iftikhar M Chaudhry, at Army House Rawalpindi for a meeting but asked him to resign from his office.

When the CJ refused to oblige Gen Musharraf, he was pressurized by [...]



When Will We Get Rid of Fazlur Rehman?

By Rohail Butt • Jun 7th, 2011 • Category: Politics

The appointment of the opposition leader in the senate by the chairman senate is perfect example of dirty politics in the country and it has once again exposed the leading hypocrite of Pakistan, the Fazlur Rehman and has also once again proven to the people of Pakistan and to whoever cares to understand that Fazlur [...]



Why Musharraf Sent Dogs to Imran Khan?

By Umer Toor • Jun 7th, 2011 • Category: Politics

When Musharraf came into power, Imran Khan was all sweet and sugar to him and Musharraf was a sugar-daddy of Imran Khan. Both shared many common traits and preferences and one of them was to have expensive and rare breed dogs. Musharraf’s kennel was exemplary during his era, and now he breeds few of them [...]



Musharraf: For Godsake Come Back

By Gul Raiz • May 1st, 2010 • Category: Politics

The lack of trust upon the rulers by the people of Pakistan is resulting in a form of civil disobedience. Nobody is paying any heed to the measures announced by the government to save the electricity. That, and the people are even defying the local authorities and keeping their shops and business open till late [...]



Army vs politicians…..who is the winner this time?

By Faiz Aman • Dec 20th, 2009 • Category: Politics

The cases of corruption against the politicians have been started once again as according to the plan of the forces who are against the democratic process in Pakistan since 1958.Once again same situation and same ground has been decorated as it was in the 90’s.In those days the politicians were mainly used against each other [...]



Who Will Pay Musharraf’s Electricity Bill ?

By Salman Mugsi • Jul 6th, 2009 • Category: Politics

There still exist some species in the country, though you are likely to find them in rare locations running for the cover, who love Musharraf and still profess their aashaqi with the dictator. When the tinpot dictator overpowered Pakistan and started disseminating  his blessings, the first catchy slogan Mush raised, was the elimination of so-called [...]