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Support the Yousuf & Co.

By Ghazala Khan • Mar 25th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Hopes are stupendous and dreams are prodigious and expectations are colossal. After the election of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gillani, people even want their unrealistic and unreasonable wishes to be completed in a jiffy.
People need to be very rational and not-so-sentimental. They should not be impatient and they must not be very ultra-sensitive. For the […]



Go Musharraf Go, Judges Must be Restored Now, PM Orders

By Ghazala Khan • Mar 24th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Need I say More?



Premier Yousuf, What About Judiciary?

By Ghazala Khan • Mar 23rd, 2008 • Category: Politics

Pakistanis do care about their judiciary, and they want their 63 judges restored including Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhary.
On Nov 3, General (r) Pervez Musharraf under the legal advises of people like Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada and Malik Muhammad Qayyum made a permanent amendment in the Constitution which is not really the prerogative of President. It was […]



Tinctures of dictatorship

By Ghazala Khan • Mar 21st, 2008 • Category: Politics

Pakistan has have enough of the tyranny and dictatorship. Enough, really enough. Much has been lost due to the blind and brute tyrannical eras, and even the politicians have learnt a lot from the vestiges of tyranny.
The misperception of the tinpot tyrants that they are the only saviours of this country have put the country […]



Restoration of Judiciary

By Ghazala Khan • Mar 20th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Even our lords in the American congress have received pang of conscience after all these months, and two members of Congress have submitted a resolution in the favour of reinstatement of deposed judges in Pakistan including Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhary.
It is also learnt that these congressmen have decided to move this resolution towards endorsement […]



First Session of Assembly

By Ghazala Khan • Mar 17th, 2008 • Category: Politics

While the Constitution Avenue becomes the “red zone” barring almost everyone except the 334 newly-elected members out of 342-member seat of lower house, outgoing Speaker Chaudhry Amir Hussain is bickering over the petty question of whether the members will take oath under the Constitution as it existed before the Nov 3 emergency or the one […]



Kya Ub Raj Karay gi Khulq-e-Khuda?

By Ghazala Khan • Mar 15th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Over all these years, we have seen the murder of five assemblies by the hands of king makers. These king makers have got the jolt of their lives on 18th February when General Kiyani let the elections to be held without the intervention of invisible hands.
This time they have given chance to both the veteran […]



Murree Declaration : PML-N, PPP take Musharraf Head On

By Ghazala Khan • Mar 9th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Say it the the stroke of coincidence or the lesson of history that on 9th March 2007 process of deposition of judiciary was started by General (r) Pervez Musharraf, and now on 9th March 2008 though the sixty judges including Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhary remains deposed and locked up, at last the […]



Delay Card

By Ghazala Khan • Mar 5th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

President Musharraf and his allies are playing the old Delay Card with the same dexterity once again, but this time they are bound to fail, as the indicators are suggesting.
Just after the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, they didnt waste a second and delayed the elections for more than a month, which enabled PML-Q, MQM and […]



Guoanbu and Al-Qaeda

By Ghazala Khan • Mar 1st, 2008 • Category: Politics

After CIA, Mossad, M-5 and KGB another formidable player in the secret services agencies of world is China’s Guoanbu. With more than two million secret agents, it right now stands as world’s biggest secret agency, and the quantity hasnt marred its quality.
With the whooping $1.3 billion budget, the most urgent task of this formidable secret […]