Up until 1999 the IMF had been using the Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility (ESAF) as the key instrument for supporting poor countries in implementing approaches to bring about substantive changes in the way countries’ programs are formulated. Later in that year the ESAF was replaced by the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) which places [...]
With the picture-showing of dancing daughter of Salman Taseer and his son’s beach pictures with nude women by the Law Minister Rana Sanaullah Khan have started fresh fights between the PPP and PML(N), but strangely enough the reaction from the PPP leaders is not aggressive and it’s very much tepid, and it seems that very [...]
Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah brandished nude pictures of Salman Taseer with some ladies and the pictures of some naked women and dance parties in the governor house, and right after that Raja Riaz of PPP accused that Rana Sana get drunk daily after saying his prayers. That is the beginning of a new round [...]
As the Opposition leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan carries on his acid attacks on the performance of the PPP-led coalition government, the PPP top leadership wants to shut Chaudhry Nisar by pressurizing his leadership. Law Minister Farooq H Naek and Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer are the most ardent supporter within PPP to put leashes on [...]
International Monetary Fund (IMF) has agreed to extend a loan of over 7 billion dollars to Pakistan under stand by credit limit which will be repayable in four years. Loan under stand by credit limit is provided to those countries which meet the requirements of IMF. As usual the government ministers have started patting themselves [...]
Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer was the man who didn’t even pay homage to the late Benazir Bhutto when she was assassinated last year in December, and didn’t go to her funeral and enjoyed the sun under the King Musharraf, and when Asif Ali Zardari started distributing sweets among his friends, he also blessed one of [...]
It was amusing to read a new term being coined in the print and electronic media “likeminded legislators.” Now that is something out of sheer genius and any kind of expediency can be embedded in such a utensil with ease and without any moral and legal obligations.
The minds of these mindless likeminded legislators change faster [...]
Salman Taseer and the naughty carnival he is staging in the Lahore with the help of chronic lota from Okara Mian Manzoor Wattoo is now getting out of control and the barking has grown way too louder to be ignored. Not only governor Punjab is spitting venom on the top leadership of the Pakistan Muslim [...]
I never ever fully fathomed the notion of working relationship between Pakistan People’s Party and Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz. It was more like mingling violet with the velvet. Their very core is miles apart and their natural and logical position is to go after each other. Bipartisanship is a boon for any country’s democratic roots [...]
Fazlur Rehman is the leading hypocrite of Pakistan. He has proven his dissimulator role time and again, and it was extremely painful to see him standing between the leaders of ruling coalition. He was the one who cajoled and 17th amendment got passed and allowed Musharraf constitutional cover, and he was the one who kept [...]
