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Real Heirs of Bhutto

By Rohail Butt • Nov 1st, 2011 • Category: Politics

Just like Benazir  Bhutto hijacked the Pakistan People’s Party from Murtaza Bhutto, Zardari has kidnapped the PPP from the Bhutto clan and it has now practically under the Zardari tribe.
If you poke into the history, you would be surprised to find out that the founder of PPP, late Zulfikar Ali Bhutto wanted to appoint Sheikh [...]



Democracy is the best Revenge

By Asad ur Rehman • Jun 6th, 2011 • Category: Politics

When Benazir Bhutto (Shaheed) returned to Pakistan after a self imposed exile she was asked by reporters that “Do she intends to take revenge from anyone?” and she replied that “Democracy is the best revenge. She had clearly expressed that she had no grudge towards anyone and if she gets successful in bringing back democracy in Pakistan that



PP-111 Election Tentative Result

By Haris Hashmi • Mar 16th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Activists of the PML-N and the PML-Q clashed with each other during the election campaign for PP-111, Gujrat, by-polls here on Sunday.
MNA Khwaja Saad Rafiq, Senator Pervaiz Rasheed and other PML-N leaders, along with party workers, were passing through the Main Muslim Bazaar in connection with the election campaign of the [...]



Gilani Choses a Clever Way out of Local Government Quagmire

By Altaf Khan • Jul 29th, 2009 • Category: Politics

In Sindh, MQM doesn’t want to abolish the local government system, and in NWFP ANP wants to retain it but with new and renewed elections. In Punjab, PML-N wants to rub the Nazims off the screen as soon as possible, and in Balochistan, the federal government itself wants to terminate teh Nizamat.
MQM, ANP and PML-N [...]



Haji Muhammad Ishaq of PPP : Another Case Emerges in Punjab

By Sher Ali • Jul 25th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Power corrupts and in Pakistan when it gets political backing it corrupts to no bounds. Punjab Assembly is the test case nowadays. After the back to back  cases of PML-N, now the PPP member of Punjab Assembly Haji Muhammad Ishaq is in the limelight. He is the Minister of Revenue & Relief and also Member [...]



Five Pakistani Women Buried Alive By Brother of PPP Minister

By Amna Gilani • Aug 30th, 2008 • Category: Misc, Worth A Second Look

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a remote area of Balochistan province, that five women were buried alive, allegedly by the younger brother of Mr. Sadiq Umrani, the provincial minister and a prominent leader of the Pakistan People’s Party, the ruling party. However, police have still not arrested the perpetrators after [...]



Ghazala Gola Go-Kart in Balochistan

By Salman Mugsi • Apr 26th, 2008 • Category: Misc

In the biggest cabinet of all time of Balochistan Assembly, many ministers are relative of either each other are of chief minister Nawab Raisani or of governer Mugsi. But there are few who have genuinely comes from a middle class background and Begum Ghazala Gola is one of them.
Mrs.Ghazala Gola Begum is the wife of [...]



Implications of Making Yousaf Raza Gillani Prime Minister

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Mar 22nd, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The slides are revolving like hell on the private channels that the PPP has finalized the name of Makhdoom Yousuf Raza Gillani from Multan for the Prime Ministerial job, and the coalition partners have retified the name.
Now that’s not a sweet, smooth and silky decision. One point of caution is that there still are left [...]



Lips of Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

By Amna Gilani • Mar 20th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

When the young son of late Benazir Bhutto, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, would announce the name of the PPP’s nomination for the Prime Minister, then who would object him? And whoever will object him, will invite the wrath of the sentimental members and activists.
Though, PPP Parliamentarians president Makhdoom Amin Fahim has called upon the coalition partners [...]



FORGET PAST – FOCUS ON FUTURE

By Rohail Butt • Feb 20th, 2008 • Category: Pakistan Vote'08, Politics

The political leader should not be (only) judged or voted on the basis of his performance, one should also see that whether this leader can represent our emotions and our thoughts. Peoples in Pakistan mostly say that we will vote that person who had done something for us, who has made roads, fly overs, who [...]