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Posts Tagged ‘John Kerry’

Army and democracy in Pakistan

By Salman Latif • Jan 10th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Lately there have been ripples through my social circle over a recent blog post I wrote, also RSS-fed at my facebook profile. The post in question was about Kerry-Lugar Bill and the reaction that ensued primarily consisted upon telling me how ‘unpatriotic‘ I was and more interestingly, how dispassionately I rejected army’s role as the [...]



Do We Need a John Kerry for us to Talk Environment ?

By Guest Blogger • Aug 24th, 2009 • Category: Politics

It’s a crime to take a good thing like the population’s concern for the environment and turn it into a socialist agenda like cap and trade in order to control business and remove the population’s wealth so that they also can be controlled more. The people want to clean up the environment, but they need [...]



How many times will we be fooled by the US?

By Dr Shireen M Mazari • Apr 22nd, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

So Senator Kerry has come to do the usual doublespeak to the Pakistani people through its already confused leadership! Like the other US leaders before him, his understanding of Pakistan ran skin deep at best as he tried to justify the drones by declaring that terrorism existed in Pakistan before these attacks. Oh what a [...]



Mr. Kerry, For Your Eyes Please

By Shayan Khan • Apr 14th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Well Mr. Kerry, you certainly know how to speak with the people of Pakistan, but it is yet to be seen as do you really know how to actually act upon what you say. Kerry’s statements during his press conference with the Pakistan’s foxy Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi were very refreshing and very [...]



Biden, Kerry Interest in Pakistan Election 2008

By The Pakistani Spectator • Feb 16th, 2008 • Category: Pakistan Vote'08, Politics

Senator Joseph Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, together with senior panel members John Kerry and Chuck Hagel, will observe the elections on February 18. These senators are the bigwigs in the democrat circles of US, and according to these senators their presence in Pakistan shows as how much interested US is in [...]