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All Pakistan Muslim League By Pervez Musharraf and Dr. Sher Afgun

By Salman Mugsi • Mar 15th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Niazi production presents proudly and shamelessly new political flick with brazen arrogance without any remorse and apology. That and they believe that this new party would be the sweetheart of the Pakistanis.
Dr. Sher Afgun Khan Niazi has submitted the papers for the registration of new party All Pakistan Muslim League, whose chairman will be former [...]



NA-55 — Democracy’s Last Chortle

By Qudrat Ullah • Mar 6th, 2010 • Category: Politics

The recently concluded NA-55 by-elections in the heart of Rawalpindi were highly capricious in many ways- it was the finale political Armageddon of the shrewd Sheikh of Potohar in which he tried to play all his tricks but to no avail, Punjab government wanted to win it at every cost, as victory was important for [...]



Fooled By Democracy

By Irfan Waheed • Feb 21st, 2010 • Category: Politics

So at last the sneering former dictator Musharraf has announced that he wants to play his role with the help of people’s power and yes through democratic way. Who knows democracy and its ways better than the dictators?
Just after two years of his departure, Musharraf is once again ready to jump into the practical politics, [...]



Will Zardari Promulgate Emergency?

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Feb 13th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Up till now President Asif Ali Zardari has been following the footsteps of former dictator Musharraf, rest assured he will be carrying on the same streak in the future. During Mush-ruffian era, all that climaxed over the Emergency and then Emergency Plus, and now when the daggers are drawn between the Zardari and the Chaudhry, [...]



Does MQM Wants Army Takeover?

By Salman Mugsi • Jan 14th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Establishment created MQM and they supported it and then they destroyed it and then once again resurrected it from the ashes. Leaders of MQM like Altaf Hussain became so terrified that though opted to be played in the hands of establishment, they refused to come back to Pakistan, though they still love to hear slogans [...]



There is Sure a Silver Lining on the Horizon

By A Khokar • Jan 1st, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Pakistan was created on the bases of two nation’s theory to secure a separate ideological homeland for Muslims in the Indian subcontinent. But soon after the inception of Pakistan, this nation  plunged into a deluge of turmoil that its two founding fathers Muhammad Ali Jinnah; the Qaid e Azam and PM Liaqat Ali Khan; their [...]



The Conflict of State Organs

By amicus • Dec 31st, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

In its short order of December 16, 2009, the Supreme Court of Pakistan declared, inter alia, the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) to be “an instrument void ab initio being ultra vires and violative of various constitutional provisions,” including;
Article 4 Right of individuals, to be dealt with, in accordance with law, etc.
Article 8 Laws inconsistent with [...]



To Drag Zardari in NRO Scandal is Not Justified

By A Khokar • Dec 18th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Kudos to CJP, I M Choudhary that he has been able to read the writings on the wall and felt the prevalent heat in the Pakistani streets that NRO was never a reconciliation and neither it carried any conciliatory spirit in it but was a verdict since ordained to facilitate a few to enable them to [...]



Implications of NRO Verdict

By Shayan Khan • Dec 17th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Candidly speaking, everyone is asking around as now what is the status and future of the President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari after the historical verdict dished out by the 17-member bench, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, in his short order.
Though 8000+ people have benefitted from the infamous National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO), people [...]



GEO Banned II

By Aal e Hashmat • Dec 8th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Geo Television had started its broadcasts on 14th August 2002 on the occasion of Pakistan’s Independence Day, continued to run smoothly but, along with other such Channels like ARY Oneworld and Aaj, had first time suffered with drastic shock in November 2007 when Gen Musharraf had promulgated notorious ‘emergency’ in the shape of sub-martial law [...]