Humor: PPP’s Annual Press Release
Annual Report – September 15, 2008
Management Discussion and Analysis (MDNA) – Brief
The Permanent Plunder Party (PPP) Co. is extremely pleased to announce the results from the success of its “Say What You Don’t Mean” (SWYDM) pills that were designed to induce “hallucinations” and spur episodes of “selective amnesia” among the general public in Pakistan. The [...]
Zardari nominated as the next President of Pakistan
GEO TV just reports that the Pakistan People’s Party has just announced their candidate for the post of the next President of Pakistan – now dont hold your breath….. Mr. Asif Ali Zardari.
The name itself sends a shiver down through anyone who has witnessed his previous tenures in power, now armed with the article 58-2-B [...]
Double Standards : General Musharraf does not need a safe passage, he merely needs a fair trial
Guest Blog by Amjad Malik
18th August resignation of General (rtd) Pervez Musharraf was the first good thing he has done in many years believing ‘Pakistan first’. Nation was jubilant, lawyers at peace and media calmly letting him go, however, political classes are still unsure on how to manipulate the maximum advantage to this joyful experience. [...]
The Supremacy of The People – An Open Letter To Mr. Zardari
Dear Mr. Zardari,
I am sick and tired of you –and all your party stalwarts- constantly drumming into our ears your ideas about the supremacy of The Parliament. I have yet to hear you talk so forcefully about the supremacy of The Constitution or even of the supremacy of The People as the Bhutto’s used [...]
BB’s version of the Nigerian 419 Scam
I was recently in receipt of an interesting email proposing a very lucrative business proposal. Reading the email, the sales pitch seemed very convincing, the facts were seemingly spot on, the plot perfect but something smelled suspicion of a 419 Nigerian scam [you could also enjoy another old post of mine on another [...]
Khalid Shahinshah, key suspect in BB’s murder assassinated in Karachi
A key witness of a Bhutto assassination has been shot dead in Karachi yesterday on Khy-e-Bhukahri
DAWN: Khalid Shahanshah, the chief security officer of PPP co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari, was assassinated on Tuesday afternoon outside his Clifton residence, police and witnesses said. They said that gunmen on a white car sprayed him with a volley [...]
Benazir’s cursed Apartment in Manhattan
The tragic assassination of Benazir Bhutto has quite a number of conspiracy theorists lining up to offer their analysis, was it fate or destiny we may never know but some have gone to speculate it may have been the Bhutto curse where all members of the Bhutto dynasty are slowly eradicated, and in the recent [...]
Musharraf vs Restoration of Judges: Showdown
An article written by Abbas Kassar in The Pakistan Weekly caught my eye which was titled Musharraf Threatens To Dissolve Assemblies If Judges Restored, it raises some serious concerns about the looming threat wielded by Musharraf and his right to exercise article 58-2(B) of the 1973 Constitution of Pakistan. Quite simply utilizing this [...]
Civil Society delegation pays tribute to Benazir Bhutto at Garhi Khuda Bux
Report posted on the People’s Resistance network by Lala Hussain
70 members civil society activists delegation visited Garhi Khuda Bux on 29th March, 2008 to pay tribute to Mohtarma BB. The brief report is below just for sharing our emotions.
When Prime Minister Yousuf Raza was getting historical vote of confidence in capital city, the 70 members [...]
Delegation visiting Benazir’s home town (Larkana) tomorrow
Posted on the People’s Resistance network by Lala Hussain
50 members delegation of civil society activists from different districts of Sindh will pay tribute to Ms Benazir Bhutto on the day when the new Prime Minister M will be getting a vote of confidence from national assembly on 29th March 2008, Saturday. The main objective to [...]
Proposed Resolution for the Restoration of Judges by the National Assembly
The text of the draft prepared for Nawaz Sharif and Asif Ali Zardari by Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim for the restoration of the pre-Nov 3rd Judges
(DRAFT RESOLUTION)
THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF PAKISTAN
WHEREAS, We the elected representatives of the people of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan acknowledge and honor the long and arduous struggle for the return to [...]
PPP names Yousuf Raza Gilani as interim PM
The Pakistan Peoples Party Saturday named ex-parliamentary speaker Yousuf Raza Gilani as its candidate to be the country’s new prime minister. “I have great pleasure in calling upon Yousuf Raza Gilani in the name of Shaheed (martyr) Benazir Bhutto to accept the heavy responsibility to lead the coalition government and the nation”,” said a statement [...]
More Fissures To Come in PPP and PPPP
Guest Blog by Temporal who blogs at Baithak
Today, Makhdoom Amin Fahim, a man of well chosen words said, “My heart is full of secrets, which, if I reveal to media they could bring storm in the national politics.”
I have written on this subject earlier. This is the third blog on the subject of fissures [...]
International Women’s Day; A Pakistani Perspective
March 8th marks the celebration of the International Womens Day worldwide, in Pakistan women have done some hard work to be considered at par with the men of society, probably their most notable event remains the protest of Feb 12th 1982 where women were brutally attacked by the state machinery (aka Zia-ul-Haq), that day is [...]
The Zardari Metamorphosis
In the three months following the assassination of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, her husband, Asif Ali Zardari has been progressively rebuilding his image, trying to distance himself from the tainted image of a feudal lord & Mr 10 percent, into the ‘Statesman’ sporting a sleek suit, trimmed mustaches and dyed hair, one has to seriously wonder [...]
