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Posts Tagged ‘benazir bhutto’

Are Pakistanis Waiting for Bilawal Bhutto Zardari?

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Mar 1st, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

There are many interesting questions which are still in dormant status but lurking in the background to come out in the near future.
With the tragic assassination of Benazir Bhutto more than two years ago, her widower Asif Ali Zardari took hold of the party and then the presidency and he also pledged with the workers [...]



Civil Society, Political Islam and Shariah Law in Pakistan

By Dil Nawaz • Feb 19th, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

In order to understand the development of Islamic theocracy in Pakistan, we have to understand the different political forces present in pre partition North West India. It is prudent to restrict the analysis to right wing Muslim parties as, regardless of their stance on independent Pakistan; in post partition political spectrum ring wing became the [...]



Riyadh Solemnly Observes BBs Second Anniversary

By Faiz Al-Najdi • Jan 3rd, 2010 • Category: Politics

Pakistan Peoples Party Saudi Arabia and Riyadh Region solemnly observed the second shahadat anniversary of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto (SMBB) in Riyadh this past weekend. The program was hosted in a local Istarah (Farm House) which was attended by a large number of SMBB lovers and others from the Pakistani community in Riyadh and its [...]



Is Zardari Equivalent to Bhutto and Benazir?

By Ali Yar Khan • Jan 2nd, 2010 • Category: Politics

President Asif Ali Zardari has said he is equipped with ‘political weapons’, which he will use when the time comes or the need arises. He says that the spirits of Zulfikar Bhutto and the his late wife Benazir Bhutto speak through him.
So do you think that Asif Ali Zardari is really the successor to the [...]



Mr. 10%: Our Man in Islamabad

By Guest Blogger • Jan 1st, 2010 • Category: Politics

In my office hang photos of this writer with Pakistan’s last four leaders. Two of them - Zia ul Haq and Benazir Bhutto - were murdered. Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif was ousted in a military coup led by photo number four, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who was deposed last year by Pakistan’s military.
Either leading Pakistan [...]



There is Sure a Silver Lining on the Horizon

By A Khokar • Jan 1st, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Pakistan was created on the bases of two nation’s theory to secure a separate ideological homeland for Muslims in the Indian subcontinent. But soon after the inception of Pakistan, this nation  plunged into a deluge of turmoil that its two founding fathers Muhammad Ali Jinnah; the Qaid e Azam and PM Liaqat Ali Khan; their [...]



Unconnected PPP Leadership

By Salman Mugsi • Dec 31st, 2009 • Category: Politics

With the assassination of the Benazir Bhutto, the whole frontline leadership of the PPP has either changed or it has become compromised and has opted for the expediency. Most of the people at the hotseats in the present regime belong to the President’s Zardari.
Not only the murderers of the Benazir Bhutto are on loose and [...]



Zardari versus Army

By Maria Sultan • Dec 28th, 2009 • Category: Politics

President of Pakistan People’s Party and President of Pakistan has openly shown defiance towards the armed forces of Pakistan. He has done at such a critical moment when the armed forces are literally fighting the war of country’s survival in the North and the restive Balochistan and suicide attacks in country are rocking the boat.
What [...]



Victimization of Asif Zardari

By Umer Toor • Dec 28th, 2009 • Category: Politics

From the outset, the anti-Bhutto forces have always ganged up to either keep the Bhuttos and their party out of power or to pull their legs from the citadel of power. These are the people who have always spoken against the PPP and for the public stances this party has always taken in the face [...]



BB: THE BRILLIANT, THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL

By Faiz Al-Najdi • Dec 27th, 2009 • Category: Politics

On 27 December 2007 Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto (SMBB) was martyred in the garrison city of Rawalpindi where her father – another great and popular leader of Pakistan – was hanged some thirty years ago by a mean, vindictive and a heartless military dictator. It is needless to underscore that [...]