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Media and Pakistan

By Amin Rehman • Feb 12th, 2010 • Category: Politics

There was a time when we had only one Channel named PTV and it used to stop broadcasting at midnight unless there was some special event like Pakistan Hockey match or Muhammad Ali’s boxing match being broadcast live. PTV helped to create a rival in the form of STN or Shalimar Television Network which created [...]



National Reconciliation Ordinance : Is It a Potential Catalyst?

By amicus • Oct 27th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

On October 5, 2007 the then President of Pakistan promulgated an Ordinance, ostensibly to promote national reconciliation, as the legend in the preamble claimed;
WHEREAS it is expedient to promote national reconciliation, foster mutual trust and confidence amongst holders of public office and remove the vestiges of political vendetta and victimization, to make the election process [...]



What PML(N) is doing Besides suffering Scandals

By Sher Ali • Jul 14th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Nawaz Sharif is said to be the most popular leader right now in the country. His brother and the chief minister of the biggest province of Pakistan is busy in servicing the people of Punjab, but that is not enough, as it is proving glass of water in a vast desert.
Nawaz Sharif has appointed Chaudhry [...]



Disparity in Political Cohesion

By Maria Sultan • May 9th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Pakistan, confronted with a host of alarming internal and external pressures, asks for absolute political cohesion and harmony to face the dangerous situation. Coalition governments in Punjab and Islamabad between PPP and PML(N) isn’t going to achieve that purpose, rather it would initiate a new round of contention with in the corridors of power. Power [...]



Shahbaz Sharif and Salman Taseer

By Rohail Butt • Apr 3rd, 2009 • Category: Politics

It is now the mood of optimism that follows the reinstatement of Shahbaz Sharif as the chief minister of Punjab. Everyone now is expecting that now a new, brighter chapter will open in the lives of people in the Punjab province. Especially people are expecting to get back their cheap roti and they are also [...]



PML (N) Disappoints Nation Again

By Salman Mugsi • Jan 13th, 2009 • Category: Politics

It’s time PML(N) chief  Nawaz Sharif learn to make decision after rigorous pondering and it’s honestly time for him to make some intelligent, worldly, smart, and sincere companions. If he carries on with the lot of Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan, Khawaja Asif, Zafar Iqbal Jhagra and other incompetent and lackluster idiots, he is bound to [...]



Fazlu’s Blackmailing

By Muskan Hina • May 23rd, 2008 • Category: Politics

As Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) is trying to accumulate numbers in the parliament to get it’s constitutional package through without PML-N, Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam chief Fazlur Rehman has already started blackmailing PPP.
He is asking for a heavy share in the cabinet with lucrative ministries. As PML-N’s Khawaja Asif has left the ministry of Petroleum, Fazlur [...]



Blaming Jews and Christians for Our Own Follies

By kami • May 20th, 2008 • Category: Politics

In the response of my article nameD “Consensus Between PPP & PML (N) in Linking with Lobbying Firms In Washington”, Insaf Khan expressed his reaction by writing:  “In fact, the PML-N does NOT want to waste Pakistani tax-payers money by hiring any old or new (American Neo-Con, Zionist, Evangelist, Christian, or Jewish) lobby firms in [...]



Hussain Haqqani the Watchman of London

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • May 10th, 2008 • Category: Politics

As far as the London is concerned, where the PML-N and PPP are locking the horns for perhaps the last time over the reinstatement of the judges, there simply is no development, and though the minor leadership of both parties with the representative of Musharraf have met, but Khawaja Asif, Hussain Haqani and Rehman Malik [...]



Zardari’s ‘Personal Reasons’ in Dubai

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Apr 28th, 2008 • Category: Politics

At this critical juncture in the history of Pakistan when the whole nations stands by over the impasse of judiciary issue, Zardari is off to Dubai for ‘personal reasons.’ Regardless of the ethical, legal and other aspects of the judiciary matters, is that the way to lead the majority party in the country, and is [...]