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Posts Tagged ‘Yousuf Raza Gilani’

Implications of Detailed Judgement of NRO

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Jan 20th, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Clash is on, arms are out. Supreme Court has dished out its detailed verdict upon the infamous NRO, and the government has returned the recommendations of chief justice after making objections on it. The government ministers and governors are out making all kinds of threatening gestures. President himself is out to garner some votes before [...]



Yousuf Raza Gilani and Corruption

By Mohsin Sehgal • Jan 16th, 2010 • Category: Politics

I have been hammering the fact in these pages that it’s ridiculous to even think that there are any rift between the president and the prime minister and it’s even more ridiculous to thinkt that the premier would ever stand in front of the flooding of corruption.
The fact of the matter is that the corruption [...]



ATTENTION!! Qoum K Lutairo

By Guest Blogger • Jan 8th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Unfortunately, in Pakistan any common citizen who faces charges and the period from “mulzim” to mujrim” or “baygunah” till the time he is not proven, the person has to go through humiliation, mental and physical tortures, degrading insults moreover his family and relatives suffer and go through the same pains. Now I respectfully ask honorable [...]



Will Premier Show Integrity?

By Rohail Butt • Jan 7th, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The biggest problem with the present regime in Pakistan is that it’s corrupt. Not a single person is out there who can claim that he or she is clean. The bunch of ministers and advisors who were selected by the President carry lots of corrupt baggage and now the Islamabad is buzzing with their fresh [...]



Hidden Hands and Shivering President

By Ali Yar Khan • Jan 6th, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The rift between Army and Asif is worsening. Army has adopted the policy of just remain silent, wait and see how much aggressive and foamy the president can get. Just like a bull in the fighting ring, President is watching many red clothes and getting aggressive and hyper and cursing the hidden hands as the [...]



Bismillah

By M Mirza • Jan 5th, 2010 • Category: Features


Buddy Opposition

By Mohsin Sehgal • Jan 2nd, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Contrary to the common belief, Nawaz Sharif needs Asif Ali Zardari more than the President needs him.
Nawaz Sharif is totally unacceptable to the establishment, hasn’t got any support in Sindh and Balochistan and only draws support from the Hazara portion of NWFP, where he in tough competition with the PML-Q. Even in Punjab, Nawaz Sharif’s [...]



Zardari Could Pull a Putin

By Shayan Khan • Dec 12th, 2009 • Category: Politics

There is every possibility that over the course of next few weeks, we might be seeing that President Zardari transfers his powers one by one through ordinances to the premier, and then after getting a public approval from the central executive committee of the Pakistan People’s Party become the Prime Minister, while implementing the 17th [...]



President Zardari Minus His Advisors Would be Fine

By Ali Yar Khan • Nov 25th, 2009 • Category: Politics

What Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani could do for Pakistan right now is to save the president from himself. President isn’t watching the obvious and getting trapped in the swamp again and again by acting upon the directions his advisors are laying out for him. Premier could replace the advisors of president, become his advisor [...]



Survival of Zardari Goes Through Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry

By Salman Mugsi • Nov 17th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Do you now understand, why Asif Ali Zardari, the NRO-ed president of Pakistan was so dead against the restoration of the Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry as chief justice of Pakistan, and why he fought till last to retain Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar as the CJP?
Zardari is a shrewd man and Abdul Hameed Dogar was his plan [...]