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Posts Tagged ‘Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry’

Heart Burns or Healings ?

By Ali Yar Khan • Jun 11th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

If history is any guide, we shouldn’t be expecting any good in the near future from the new alignments of the politicos on the country, which are almost at loggerheads. Within the coalition of PPP led government, the ANP and JUI-F have pulled the daggers out and slinging mud without any pause. ANP is also [...]



Rip-Off Ourselves

By Ali Yar Khan • Nov 23rd, 2008 • Category: Politics

We all are incriminated in the economic rip-off our country. Yes, leaders are corrupt and in Pakistan nobody reached to the assemblies without corruption and if somebody thinks otherwise, then he is the a “shahzada” in himself. We don’t pay taxes, and we are not ready to sacrifice. No lawyer, no doctor, no teacher, no [...]



11-Point Demands of PML(N)

By Sameer Shaharyar • Nov 15th, 2008 • Category: Politics

The truth is that the present government has given nothing but gloom, frustration and desperation to the nation so far and the uglier thing is that there is no hope left for the people. Already the air in Islamabad is polluted by the scandals of the ministers of PPP, and the reality that the government [...]



Re-conditioning of PML-Q for Musharraf’s Entry

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Nov 11th, 2008 • Category: Politics

News is that former commando and former chief of army staff and former dictator and former president Pervez Musharraf has become once again very active behind the scene and he intends to take hold of the reigns of a refurbished PML-Q after 18 or so months. President of Pakistan can only take part in politics [...]



Nawaz Sharif, Stand Up

By Salman Mugsi • Nov 2nd, 2008 • Category: Politics

Asif Ali Zardari’s flashing teeth and the Farooq H. Naek’s flashing legalese has certainly extracted some juice from the lawyers movement courtesy to the dual strategy and uncertainty greed of Aitzaz Ahsan, and it is not sooner that we will see the soul-stirring sight of Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar taking his heels out of the [...]



Multiple Supreme Courts Not Acceptable by the Nation

By Farid Masood • May 10th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The nation has given its mandate to get rid of dictatorship and to re-instate the deposed Judiciary including Chief Justice of Pakistan Mr Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry.
This mandate is based on the sacrifice of the nation, which is suffering from severe economic turbulence, price hike, currency devaluation, missing loved ones, therefore, if a politician/leader says that [...]



Justice Khalilur Rahman Ramday is not Humma Shumma

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Mar 30th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Detailed judgment in the case concerning the reinstatement of the Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry is feared to be destroyed when last night Supreme Court Judges Colony Staff ransacked the guest rooms of Justice Khalilur Rahman Ramday. It was an exact replication of attitude shown by the President to the Chief Justice. Some [...]