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Posts Tagged ‘PML(N)’

Impeccable people in Pakistan

By Guest Blogger • Feb 18th, 2010 • Category: Politics

There are not many takers of Nawaz Sharif sympathy. Nawaz Sharif’s current standing somehow fueling conspiracy theory. On one side, Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan, the opposition leader held many clandestine meetings with Chief of Army staff Gen Ashfaq Pervez Kiyani. So called champion of democracy and judiciary, Khadim-e-Ala of Punjab had a two hours long [...]



Keep Them In To Get Them Out

By Ali Yar Khan • Jan 8th, 2010 • Category: Politics

I am all for letting the current dispensation of rulers go on for their full tenure of five years. Come next elections, they will be wiped out forever. Let them do whatever they can do. Let them commit whatever blunders they have capacity to commit, and let them even get away with the scandals and [...]



Shahbaz Sharif & the politics of federalism

By Qudrat Ullah • Nov 29th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Some days back, Shahbaz Sharif was on an important mission to Quetta and Karachi to make correct the blunders of the past dictator and to give message to the indigent dwellers of less developed parts of federation that they are an equal partner in development and Punjab will now make every sacrifice for them so [...]



Musharraf’s Trial : A Pipedream

By Salman Mugsi • Aug 12th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani’s promise that he would act towards the trial of former dictator Musharraf, the moment a unanimous resolution is passed in the national assembly. That shows how deeply PM Gilani is subservient to the presidency as President Asif Ali Zardari is absolutely opposed to any idea of Musharraf’s trial.
All that news [...]



PML-N Govt. decides to shut down Lahore Food Street

By Guest Blogger • Aug 11th, 2009 • Category: Politics

The culture of intolerance farmed by Late Z. A. Bhutto and watered by the successive governments witnessed its height in the 90 when two major ruling political parties of that decade made records of political bigotry. The marriage, in fact of inconvenience, took place in London where two parties signed Charter of democracy, gave us [...]



PML (N)’s 4th Foot: Lord Buffoon Nazeer

By Tanzeel • Aug 8th, 2009 • Category: Politics

“I heard him playing tabla myself. It was during a (recent) music show in London, ok okay let me tell you – recently he was invited as chief guest to a music show where he felt that the “tabla Nawaz” (drum beater) accompanying the singer had gone out of rhythm. Dissatisfied, rather irritated, by tabla [...]



Musharraf : Treason or High Treason

By Rohail Butt • Jul 31st, 2009 • Category: Politics

There is a well-defined difference between treason and high treason. Treason is an offence under the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) whereas a separate statute of law exists for high treason after the heinous offence has been provided in the Constitution. If someone works against the state, for example, by raising a private army, he commits [...]



Musharraf League, PML(M), Meem League, M League

By Ali Yar Khan • Jul 30th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Call the garbage by any name, the garbage stinks and it generates repulsive sentiments. The former tinpot dictator who hatched his illegitimate child Q-League, tried to adopt it after getting out of the power, but lotas showed him their back, as they do to all the losers.
The top leadership of the Pakistan Muslim League-Q (PML-Q), [...]



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 [...]



Humayun Akhtar versus Pervaiz Elahi : Dirt and Mud Dances

By Fatima Tassaduq • Jul 9th, 2009 • Category: Politics

It was quite amusing to watch Humuyun Akhtar Khan, a rich son of a late general sitting with the beautiful Kashmala Tariq doing a press conference, perhaps his first serious press conference during his drawing room political career. He was hurling mud at the Chaudhry Brothers of Gujrat, who are hell bent at carrying on [...]