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Posts Tagged ‘shaukat aziz’

Blind Authority Reeks

By Salman Mugsi • Jun 19th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

In the course of our lives, we all do silly things. It’s simply avoidable, but the sagacious ones understands their bloopers and they strive their hard to not to repeat them, and when the time comes and if they are given the chance, they accept their follies and try to make do for them in [...]



Profile of Hina Rabbani Khar

By Fatima Tassaduq • Jun 17th, 2008 • Category: Misc

Hina Rabbani Khar was born on January 19, 1977 in Multan. She has been elected for her first term as MNA. She is
politically affiliated with PML(Q). She also served as Minister of State for Economic Affairs Division, and was previously the Parliamentary Secretary for Economic Affairs and Statistics.
A businesswoman by profession, she graduated with [...]



Hina Rabbani Khar Changes Skin

By Sameer Shaharyar • Jun 16th, 2008 • Category: Politics

According to the media reports, Hina Rabbani Khar, who was Minister of State for Economic Affairs in Shaukat Aziz government, criticise the economic failures of previous government saying that agriculture sector was ignored by the previous government as a result of which the country which exported wheat has become a big importer.  She said the [...]



Quiescent Leadership and Looming Alarming Shadows

By Ch. Naeem Sidhu • Jun 16th, 2008 • Category: Politics (Urdu)


Amar Bail of Musharraf Epoch

By Sameer Shaharyar • Jun 13th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Had Pervez Musharraf found someone like Ehtasham Zamir of 2002 elections, in the 2008 February elections, he would have once again been gloating and wallowing with the PML-Quislers and MQMers, and perhaps we would have some one from MQM as Prime Minister, or he could be none other than Punjab’s Shame Chaudhary Pervaiz Elahi.
Now one [...]



Benazir Income Support Program

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Jun 12th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Finance Minister Syed Naveed Qamar and his team has done a good job of formulating the upcoming Budget of Pakistan. In this budget, they are facing many disparate challenges. At one side they have to render much needed relief to the hapless populace and on the other hand they have to pull the economy out [...]



We Cannot Forget Lal Masjid / Jamia Hafsa

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Jun 7th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

When more than 4,000 innocent students girls of all ages weren’t allowed to escape from the siege of Jamia Hafsa and Lal Masjid and they were burned down alive by the phosphorous bombs, then why should Pervez Musharraf be allowed to escape without any trial and punishment?
The brave and daring martyr girls of Jamia Hafsa [...]



Lt Gen (retd) Abdul Qayyum : Changed Man from POF Wah Cantt to Steel Mills

By Rohail Butt • May 27th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Former chief of the Steel Mills Lt Gen (retd) Abdul Qayyum is also the former chief of Pakistan Ordinance Factories, Wah. Recently he has given an interview to a program of private TV channel and has altruistically expressed his regret, remorse and pain over the ill-intentioned privatization of the steel mills Karachi.
Lt Gen (retd) Abdul [...]



Muhammadmian Soomro for President

By Rohail Butt • May 27th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Do you remember once there was a Prime Minister in Pakistan for taking care of himself and his name was Muhammadmian Soomro? He is still the chairman senate, and would you believe that he is considered the second best favorite of United States after our bad old President Pervez Musharraf, who is also a retired [...]



Shattered Rupee

By Gul Raiz • May 15th, 2008 • Category: Politics

The sharp fall in the rupee against the steadily falling dollar in the backdrop of horrendously rising oil prices, and the melting down economy with no outside investment whatsoever coupled with contorted inflation has posed grave challenges for the new government.
The above worries have become even more worrisome as the new government in its fourty [...]