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Time to Abandon Antediluvian Patriarchs

By Ali Yar Khan • Sep 4th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Years after years, government after governments, Martial laws after martial laws, the people of Pakistan have seen with agony and disappointment the failures, corruptions and prevaricated promises of their politicos and tyrants and now they have abondoned almost all of them, including the religious parties.
Pakistani people are long questioning their actual say in the state […]



Give Zardari a Chance

By Gul Raiz • Sep 3rd, 2008 • Category: Politics

The efforts to strengthen and consolidate the democracy only got momentum after the peaceful departure of General (r) Pervez Musharraf. The very reason that there was no bloodshed involved in the bid to remove Musharraf and also there was no harm rendered to Musharraf is suffice to convince all and sundry about the eligibility of […]



Ub Aik Haan

By Ch. Naeem Sidhu • Aug 31st, 2008 • Category: Politics (Urdu)



Unpatriotic Decision

By Dawar Naqvi • Aug 27th, 2008 • Category: Politics

“PML (N) may fool all the people some of the time,PML (N) can even fool some of the people all of the time,
But they cannot fool all of the people all the time.”
Since his political party PML (N) became coalition partner of current government they have done only destructive politics.
Pakistan is going through very bad […]



Fazlur on Political Business

By Farid Masood • Aug 27th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Yesterday, Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) has parted itself away from government coalition comprising of PPP, PML(N), JUI(F) and ANP. By this announcement of PML(N) now the game for election of the person for Office of the President of Pakistan has become red hot.
PML(N) has announced its candidate Mr Justice (Retd) Saeed-uz-Zaman Siddqui for Presidential elections. […]



Silver Lining to PPP, PML(N) Splinter

By Muskan Hina • Aug 27th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Opposition is an equal partner in the parliamentary system of government as of the treasury benches and the more the opposition is stronger, the more the parliamentary system gets durable and solid provided media, judiciary, and the establishment behave themselves and politicians don’t get way too greedy and knavish.
Pakistan, after the nine years of absolute […]



PPP-PML-N Coalition True Saga

By Sameer Shaharyar • Aug 26th, 2008 • Category: Politics

I still remember the cursed day of 27th December, 2007 when Nawaz Sharif rushed to General Hospital Rawalpindi and reached there when there was no PPP leader to mourn the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. Nawaz Sharif barefootedly, according to Sindhi tradition, wept and consoled with the agonized and shocked PPP workers. He vowed there to […]



Six Months, Six Days

By Saleem Khan • Aug 26th, 2008 • Category: Politics

I was sitting idle so started reading old posts on my favourite blog TPS, specially the posts of last week of February 2008. These posts were full of hopes and happiness. Every writer/blogger tried his level best to portray the bright future of Pakistan after Election 2008. It is claimed that dreams are transforming into […]



Implications of PPP, PML(N) Carve-up

By Ali Yar Khan • Aug 25th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Whatever happened on 3rd November cannot be justified. It was illegal, unconstitutional and unprincipled and one of the last cries of dictator and the reason why coalition broke was because one partner wanted to retain the echoes of those cries on the whims of international stakeholders and while the other wasn’t feeling that much attachment […]



Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari

By Rohail Butt • Aug 23rd, 2008 • Category: Entertainment

The Central Executive Committee of Pakistan People’s Party has nominated the PPP Co-chairman, Asif Ali Zardari for the post of president of Pakistan.
Altaf Hussain has proposed the name of Asif Ali Zardari for President of Pakistan.
Salman Taseer, the governor of Punjab has put forward the name of Asif Ali Zardari for the president.
Qaim Ali Shah, […]