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Pakistan without a Finance Minister

By Ali Yar Khan • Mar 5th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Pakistan’s Economy is among the worst economies in the world. Shaukat Tarin, the former finance minister has resigned at last. It was known for some months that Tarin was going out. His clashes and differences from rest of the cabinet and the premier was known to everybody. For the last six or so months, everybody [...]



Go Zardari Face the Cases

By Ali Yar Khan • Feb 27th, 2010 • Category: Politics

If President Asif Ali Zardari really wants to fill in the shoes of his late wife, the two time prime minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto, who was brutally assassinated in 2007 during an era of a dictator in the city, where her father was murdered through the courts upon the orders of a dictator, then [...]



What Sheikh Rashid’s Defeat Means?

By Ali Yar Khan • Feb 24th, 2010 • Category: Politics

It means a lot for the future of politics and electioneering in the Pakistan. The winning election of Malik Shakeel Awan of PML-N by an overwhelming majority will not only strengthen the opposition in Pakistan, but its effects will be very far reaching and tangible.
Sheikh Rashid Ahmed is not just a candidate. He is the [...]



100 Shoes, 100 Onions; Gilani Retreats

By Ali Yar Khan • Feb 17th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Not only they have taken back the notification, they have also accepted the recommendations of the apex court for the nominations of judges.
Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has announced the formal withdrawal of the two suspended presidential notifications Wednesday following his meeting with Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry at the Prime Minister [...]



Why Zardari Did It?

By Ali Yar Khan • Feb 15th, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

It’s extremely preposterous to even think that the cunning President Zardari didn’t have an idea about the implications and the reactions of his decision to outrightly reject the recommendations of the supreme court’s top judge and make his own decision.
He very well knew that Chief Justice (Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry would kowtow in front of [...]



Unity Among Lawyers : Need of Time

By Ali Yar Khan • Feb 14th, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Partly due to the rifts between some of the lawyers, and then due to the government conspiracies, and then due to the malign-adventure of some media groups, the unprecedented lawyers’ movement is in disarrary right now.
Lawyers movement was  one of the best things happened to Pakistan, who helped ouster of dictator and heralding a new [...]



We are not Servants of Sharifs, Bhuttos and Imrans

By Ali Yar Khan • Feb 12th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Pakistan’s former prime ministers Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto went out of this world in unusual circumstances and as is expected in Pakistan, their parties declared them martyrs.
Ask from Ijazul Haq, son of former dictator General Ziaul Haq who died in plane crash, and Ijaz would call his father a martyr. From the ashes [...]



Assassination Attempt on Sheikh Rashid; Who Dunnit?

By Ali Yar Khan • Feb 8th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Who is the beneficiary? Just answer this question, and you would be nearer to the answer.
Right now in the NA-55 constituency of the Rawalpindi, the only competitor of the Sheikh Rashid Ahmed is PML(N), and dead or injured Sheikh Rashid is highly in the disfavor of PML-N, because in that case the Sheikh Rashid would [...]



Pakistan Cricket: Time to Overhaul Everything

By Ali Yar Khan • Feb 1st, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Before the cricket becomes hockey in Pakistan and goes to the dustbin of oblivion, we need to get up and blow away the movers, shakers and players of the current dispensation responsible for cricket in Pakistan.
Yes we won the world cup of cricket in 1992, but dammit that is 18 years ago. How we won [...]



Gilani Goes Zardari

By Ali Yar Khan • Jan 29th, 2010 • Category: Politics

The short order and the detailed judgement of the Supreme Court has at least done one favor to the political horizon of Pakistan. It has told all of who care where the premier Yousuf Raza Gilani stands. Those who were speculating about rifts between President and the Prime Minister should know better now.
The columnists and [...]