“The News” has gone into overdrive these days. Anonymous sources confided “The News” that Ambassador Haqqani’s contract is going to expire in May and reports speak of Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir being posted to Washington to replace Haqqani. This big and false rumor to begin to agitate again, I surmise. If you go through this [...]
No sane tourist could come from United States of America to visit Pakistan in these times. All those who are coming to Pakistan from US are either new recruits at the ever-expanding embassy in Islamabad and mission in other cities, or they belong to either Xe Services, or Dyncorp or any other private security contractors. [...]
As the 28th November approaches, the nation prepares for the Eid to sacrifice the animals while many political pundits are predicting some high profile sacrifices too after this day, as NRO protection will expire on 28th too.
What has the official announcement of the NRO beneficiaries’ list achieved? It surely has divulged nothing new as we [...]
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 [...]
Mr. Shah Mahmood Qurreshi, the Foreign Minister, who had gone to the United States after a brief appearance in the National Assembly on Oct 9 after an earlier trip to Washington, told the National Assembly, on October 17, that, ‘he had minced no words in conveying reservations expressed in Pakistan and got a prompt response [...]
On 16th March, Zardari forcibly bowed in front of Kayani’s assertion that the chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry should be restored along with other judges, and then on 10th October of the same year, Zardari backed off from his blind support of Kerry Lugar bill.
Zardari is on record to say that Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry could [...]
Following are the charges, which the establishment has put forward to the President House against the Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States:
The revelation of the confidential letter, on an Indian television channel
The granting of visas “at ambassadorial discretion” to a host of Americans, some of whom had earlier been deported
The inclusion of clauses targeting the [...]
After President Obama made his policy statement on Afghanistan and Pakistan in March 2009 it was expected that in future the United States would focus more on the need of the people rather than the governments in pursuing US interests in the region and would come up with sustained strategic commitment with Pakistan.
However, no one [...]
With regard to the Kerry-Lugar Bill, I have failed to find anything which runs counter to the national interest of the two countries. The conditions embodied in the said legislation, including the ones relating to democracy, non-proliferation, war on terror, civilian supremacy and monitoring facilities, do not militate against the interest of Pakistan.
America has traditionally [...]
I still remember those pictures (probably forged) of Begum Nusrat Bhutto with President Ford and the pictures of late Benazir Bhutto during the vitriolic elections campaigns of the nineties. The mob who was responsbile for producing those pictures and other mud-slinging material over the Bhutto family, also included a very active role of Mr. Hussain [...]
