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Posts Tagged ‘Washington’

Quiescent Leadership and Looming Alarming Shadows

By Ch. Naeem Sidhu • Jun 16th, 2008 • Category: Politics (Urdu)



PDA Must Break

By Gul Raiz • May 10th, 2008 • Category: Politics

If you ask me then I would say that Asif Ali Zardari should right now say good bye to Nawaz Sharif and join hands with the PML-Q and Musharraf and invite MQM in the center.
This would not only end this judicial crisis, but will give more time to the government to focus on other issues […]



Zardari and 9/11

By Amna Gilani • May 9th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Had it been Asif Ali Zardari running the affairs of the state of Pakistan on 9/11, the current status of Pakistan would have been entirely different.
President General (r) Pervez Musharraf is not a politician. He is a commando, who shoots from the hip and takes the decisions swiftly and in digital format. He heard ‘Yes’ […]



Consensus Between PPP & PML (N) in Linking with Lobbying Firms In Washington

By kami • May 8th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

It is the norm that a new government in a country changes its lobbying link in Washington, DC as well. Presently, while the late Bhutto’s Pakistan People Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) are busy in keeping their alliance intact on the issue of restoration of sixty judges, they are also discussing the selection […]



U.S. Support of Mujaheddin and 9/11

By kami • Apr 23rd, 2008 • Category: Politics

Washington, D.C. “Every Nuclear Expert we met says there is going to be nuclear terrorist attack in the States, but no one knows when”, says Journalists Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins, the authors of new book named The Nuclear Jihadist. Addressing over several dozen people at the Politics and Pros book store, Frantz said he […]



MQM’s Shoe Treatment to Zardari’s Reconciliation

By Ali Yar Khan • Apr 13th, 2008 • Category: Entertainment, Politics

Couple of weeks ago, Asif Ali Zardari the co-chairman of Pakistan People’s Party and Dr. Farooq Sattar, the top man of MQM in Pakistan exchanged traditional hats and Ajraks with each other and showered artificial smiles and made the children of Altaf Bhai and Zardari sisters and brothers.
Those who know MQM, knew that this won’t […]



Ansar Burney (Singh): The Human Rights Minister for Indians

By The Pakistani Spectator • Apr 8th, 2008 • Category: Politics

By Samad Khurram 
Ansar Burney completed his tenure as the first ever caretaker minister of human rights. During his four months stint in the Ministry of Law, Burney worked hard tirelessly for providing a safe passage for suspected and convicted enemies of Pakistan while completely disregarding Pakistanis. He even went a step further by actively […]



Dushman Is Ka Hindustan Kyon Ho

By M. Waqas (MPA) • Mar 9th, 2008 • Category: Politics (Urdu)



Restoration of Judges ; The Decisive Factor

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Feb 26th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Just like President Pervez Musharraf, US of A wasn’t also expecting this rigorous negative answers against its strategy from the people of Pakistan. The verdict of Pakistani nation has a resounding effect on many across the globe.
President Musharraf’s problem is that he doesn’t want to leave the rule and that is understandably as nobody wants […]



Has the coalition been defeated in Afghanistan?

By Farid Masood • Feb 11th, 2008 • Category: Politics

In a hilly area winning a war is not as easy as licking a lollipop. It’s a bit easy if both the armies are new to a hilly area, but the people living there for decades and just fighting and doing nothing else are too hard to be pushed back.
The people who have got intensive […]