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Pakistan’s Musharraf: House-Hunting in London?

By Swaraaj Chauhan • Nov 25th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Pakistan’s former military dictator Pervez Musharraf arrived in London on Sunday. This is his first visit abroad after he resigned from the post of president to escape imminent impeachment in August this year.
India’s leading TV channel NDTV reports that “Musharraf’s visit comes amidst much speculation that he is planning on settling in the UK and […]



Cowasjee Nails It Once Again

By Gul Raiz • Aug 11th, 2008 • Category: Politics

I am sure most of the learned readers here have in likelihood read the Sunday masterpiece of Mr. Cowasjee in Dawn, which starts like:
AT play: Our insecure elected and unelected political players, some corrupt to the core. The aim: Dependent upon the contours of their overflowing pockets, they shoot at half-cock. The beneficiaries: The politicos […]



Sacrifice for the Nation

By Farid Masood • May 28th, 2008 • Category: Politics

The day of 28th May, a day cannot be forgotten. In 1974 India tested Nuke which was an eye opener for Pakistan. Mr Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Mr Ghulam Ishaque Khan & Dr Abdul Qadeer were the key persons who taken the initiative to make Pakistan a state that can have a compatible deterrence.
Again on 11th […]



Good Memories With Some American ‘Right Wing Bigot Christians’

By kami • May 23rd, 2008 • Category: Misc

Last year in April, Dr. John L. Esposito of Georgetown University offered a symposium exploring the definition of Muslim identity. This event was a global interactive conversation on religion moderated by Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham and Sally Quinn of the Washington Post.
A panel of journalists and religious scholars like Sherman A. Jackson, the Muslim Chaplain […]



The IRI Survey Report

By Farid Masood • Feb 12th, 2008 • Category: Pakistan Vote'08, Politics

Please visit the link below and see how the general public is responding. Almost 75% of respondents say that President Musharaf should leave his office . . .
IRI Report
Courtesy Dawn.com



Nawaz Sharif Has Bitten by Democracy Bug

By Amna Gilani • Feb 8th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

NAWAZ Sharif, the Quaid of his own PML faction, is in a bitter-sweet mood.
There are ample reasons for his bitterness. He feels that as two-time prime minister he did not deserve to be tortured mentally, physically and, more importantly for him, spiritually. He appears to be an angry man who has resolved to himself, […]



Dawn : Bring Our Ayaz Amir Back

By The Pakistani Spectator • Dec 24th, 2007 • Category: Uncategorized

By Fahd Mirza
I for one buy the Dawn newspaper of Friday just to relish the column of Ayaz Amir. For the last some years, I use to buy newspaper in the morning, read it from page to page, leaving his column for last. As I know that pleasure delayed is pleasure doubled. For the rest […]



Blessing in Disguise

By The Pakistani Spectator • Jun 18th, 2007 • Category: Uncategorized

An article written by Ms Anjum Niaz in Dawn Magazine dated 17th June 2007 titled as “Home before Dark”, in which she has pointed out the law and order situation in Islamabad. She wrote a true happening as vagabonds spread after evening and try to loot many areas like Blue Area even open shops.
Law […]



Sacrifice for the Nation

By The Pakistani Spectator • May 26th, 2007 • Category: Politics

The day of 28th May, a day cannot be forgotten. In 1974 India tested Nuke which was an eye opener for Pakistan. Mr Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Mr Ghulam Ishaque Khan & Dr Abdul Qadeer were the key persons who taken the initiative to make Pakistan a state that can have a compatible deterrence.
Again on 11th […]