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Why a successor was important?
Ayub Khan’s regime was extremely similar to Musharraf’s in that he and Musharraf both were the blue-eyed boys of the US, wrote a book about it, enjoyed absolute authority for about a decade, engin...
The life and death of the one-point agenda
Musharraf quits! So swiftly that it might even have surprised the coalition partners. And herein lies the big test for them. They had a common enemy, that common enemy is no more, and consequently, th...
Chandelier of Democracy
Tyranny is dead and democracy is alive again. On the corpse of dictatorship, the funeral of guard of honour has been offered like it was for Yahya Khan, Ziaul Haq and Ayub Khan. Now democracy is calli...
Soldier of America
I Feel Like Orphan After Musharraf
The man who resurrected the country from the ashes after 1999, the man who pulled the country out of despair, exasperation, frustration and agony and showed the light at the end of the tunnel has gone...
Musharraf: An other Causality of War on Terrorism
If this can be claimed and proved that there is certainly a truth behind the war on Terror; that there are some stooges called Taliban- Al Qaeda operating from the safe haven created in the far flung ...
Look Back At Musharraf’s Era
It looked to me same people who were rejoicing on the T.V screens after the resignation of Pervez Musharraf who were distributing sweets on 12th October, 1999. Musharraf’s time is filled with ro...
Good Riddance
Whether through the charismatic diplomacy and pleading of the interlocutors of Musharraf or through the back door convincing of Saudis or through the behind the scenes arm-twisting of American, at lea...
Musharraf’s Resignation Riddle
For the last one week, we have been watching “breaking news” on every private T.V channel that the next 48 hours would be very crucial and decisive in regard of the resignation of General ...
For Musharraf : Safe Passage or Accoutability?
Asif Ali Zardari, the co-chairman of Pakistan People’s Party has hinted that his party may be ready to give Musharraf a safe escape leeway, if he resigns quitly and even Ahmad Mukhtar, the defen...
Impeachment of President Musharraf
Taliban commanders are taking over more of the country’s ungoverned north-west by the day.Tensions between South Asia’s nuclear-armed rivals are rising. After a suicide-bomb attack on the Indian e...
In search of Enemy
Resign Mr. Commander-in-chief
First this thing should be crystal clear to everybody within and outside Pakistan, that Pakistan Military doesn’t belong to any individual and it’s not loyal to any single personality or a...
Impeachment of Musharraf : Nawaz Sharif’s Personal Vendetta?
The News carried out a survey, according to which 70% of Pakistanis pointed their fingers at the General (r) Pervez Musharraf for the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the two time Prime Minister of Pa...
Cowasjee Nails It Once Again
I am sure most of the learned readers here have in likelihood read the Sunday masterpiece of Mr. Cowasjee in Dawn, which starts like: AT play: Our insecure elected and unelected political players, som...
General Kiyani and Presidency
The so called elected CIVILIAN leadership of PPP and PML(N) have spoken. The socalled FREE media of pakistan have all smiles. But one man is the answer to the question whether Musharaff will ACTUALLY...
PML-Q Pothers Break Ahead of Mush’s Impeachment
Coats are turning, lotas are wringing and apostates are deserting as the Musharraf’s life in President House comes to an ignominious end. For starters, MNA Sardar Bahadur Khan Sihar from distric...
Ub Unjam Jo Ho So Ho
Healing After Musharraf
The joint declaration of the PML-N and PPP has shown that some semblance of political democratic maturity is seeping in, and the way both parties have shed out their differences for the common causes ...
Final Fight
At last, Asif Ali Zardari and Nawaz Sharif has come to the decisive point that the good days of honeymoon have gone and now its time for some action. After the formation of government, cropping up of ...
Both PPP, PML-N Blinked : Nation Relieved
The Pakistani nation evenly distributed the mandate of 18th February among the PPP and PML-N, and they wanted them to clean up the act of dictators together. They wanted them to get rid of Musharraf a...
Musharraf : Teri Yaad Aai Teray Janay K Bad
Yeah, contrary to the media propaganda, the truth of the matter is that President Pervez Musharraf isn’t taking part in the fiascos and melodramas happening all around us, and he is just sitting...
Time Up
Political turmoil, instability and deep economic crises are what have choked the national life in Pakistan, and now Pakistanis are just living on their unfathomable willpower. The dark clouds of gloom...
Desire for Breaking News
Where the introduction of private T.V channels have raised the level of awareness, many disturbing trends have also emerged. In their cut-throat competition, instead of competing with other in healthy...
Phir Milain Gay
Again the two leaders met and again the two leaders failed to reach on any consensus, and both left to meet again while people again looked at each other in bewilderment. Again the deadlock was on the...
Ahsan Iqbal on Rethinking U.S. Policy
On July 31, in Washington, I had a long conversation with Ahsan Iqbal, Information Secretary of PML-N, on Pakistan’s role in helping Afghanistan and to stabilize that part of the world. I stated t...
Baffled Dr. Shahid Masood
Dr. Shahid Masood is going through same strange terrains and learning to his great pains the real semantics of hefty salary and lush perks, quite soon after assuming the duties as the Managing Directo...
Rehman Malik : Hoay Tum Dost Jis Kay
Practically the affairs of the government are being run by the Rehman Malik. One can pity on the Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, who could just sit there and watch the aides of Asif Ali Zardari rec...
Coming of Age
This is the 21st century; the century of civilization. We have long since stepped past the barbarians, the stone age. The mushrooming, rapid advancements of the modern era and its technologies has mad...
Change We Don’t Want
One has to hand it to the co-chairman of Pakistan Peoples’ Party Asif Ali Zardari, as how quickly he has bungled up with the mandate given to his party, and how quickly he has ditched the dreams...