Category: Politics
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Zardari’s disappearance from New York Iftar: Found at Geisha Restaurant
OscarTango, a blog managed by Irshad Saleem from New Jersey has reported some juicy news about Asif Ali Zardari’s sudden disappearance from the Pakistan Embassies Iftar party last Friday in New York city. The President arrived at the event which was hosted by our US Ambassador Hussain Haqqani and on his arrival the President went…
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Misspelling controversy rehashed: God or Gaad, does it really matter?
On 11th September the newly elected President Asif Ali Zardari paid homage to the Mausoleum of the Father of the Nation in Karachi, all seemed well until reports started trickling in from various sources of a juicy controversy, where our new President had accidentally misspelled a few words here ‘n there. The message that appeared…
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Fareed Zakaria rips on Sarah Palin
Fareed Zakaria has in his Newsweek editorial ripped apart Sarah Palin to say Palin Is Ready? Please. He continues to argue his point on CNN when interviewed by Wolf Blitzer.
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American Lawyers conference on rule of law in Pakistan & my brief visit to Europe
Guest Blog by Amjad Malik I was invited by British Law Society of England to visit Brussels as part of their delegation to attend a rule of law conference on ‘Pakistan and beyond’ organised by American Bar Association (ABA) on 25th September at Hilton (Brussels). Reaching Brussels airport in the morning, I caught a cab…
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SNL interviews Sarah Palin: Pakistani guys hugged ‘Literally’
America continues to rip on Asif Ali Zardari’s fling with Sarah Palin a few days back. The famous show Saturday Night Live does a mock of Sarah Palin’s recent interview with CBS News’ Katie Couric. Katie Couric is played by Amy Poehler, while the amazing Tina Fey spins a look-alike of Sarah Palin.
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President Kirdari: McCain & Obama debate on Pakistan
In roughly 37 odd days from today, The United States of America will be electing its 44th President. Though the elections are limited to only the citizens of United States of America but the outcome of electing the new President has a far greater global impact then being limited to the confines of the borders…
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German terrorist arrests: Do all Terrorists lead to Pakistan? NO
Today German federal police seized two suspected terrorists from a Dutch passenger aircraft [KL 1804] at Cologne airport shortly before it was due to take off for Amsterdam. Sources say the two suspects were on their way to join terrorists in Uganda and Pakistan. The suspects were a 23-year-old Somalian identified as Abdirazak and a…
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HUMOR: Making sense of Asif Zardari & Sarah Palin encounter
All day yesterday I was thinking – what stupidity of our President to have flirted with the republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin on live TV. The only possible scenario that comes close to some reasoning is as follows Take for example the two most important comments that Asif Ali Zardari made to Sarah Palin…
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POLL: Who Should Be Pakistan’s First Lady?
Guest post by temporal of Baithak blog Baithak’s Top Ten List for Pakistan’s First Lady And now something different and away from 58-2b, Article 17, Iftikhar Chaudhry, Load Shedding, Fata, Aata, who kills our civilians – the Faujis, the Terrorists, the US Army, NATO and the likes. Please vote on who should be Pakistan’s new…
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Zardari flirts with Sarah Palin: Calling her Gorgeous & Offers to Hug
As suspected from my earlier post where I shuddered at the thought of what Asif Ali Zardari might serve up to Washington during his trip to attend the UN General Assembly, well the games have begun. In a recent meeting with the Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin, our Honorable President was seemingly a little…
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Rahman Dakait nominated for International Peace Award 2008
International Human Rights Commision has nominated Advisor to the Prime Minister on Interior Rehman Malik for the ‘International Peace Award 2008 for War against Terrorism. The real problem with Pakistan is there appears to be a complete collapse of moral fabric. I still choose to call him Rehman Dakiat for his endless list of goofups.…
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Sarah Palin meets Asif Zardari and Manmohan Singh
Guest Blog by temporal from Baithak Blog The first-term Alaska governor plans to meet seven world leaders and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in New York City this week, where the U.N. General Assembly is convening. The meetings might help her answer critics who say she is not ready to handle world affairs. Palin…
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Presidential speech, is he stalling everything or truly bringing reconciliation the soil, a critical analysis
Guest Blog by Amjad Malik 20th September 2008, ‘Land mark’ presidential speech to the joint session of the Parliament was overshadowed by a quick reminder of the menace of terrorism in the form of an explosive terrorist attack at Marriott Hotel, Islamabad which took over fifty three lives and scores were injured. This condemnable attack…
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Islamabad Update: ~60 dead, 200+ injured including Czech Ambassador
The death toll continues to rise on last nights Islamabad bombing and news reports are tallying the count to be somewhere around 60 dead and over 200 injured. This sadly also includes a few foreigners and the highest dignitary killed yesterday is the Czech Ambassador to Pakistan Ivo Zdarek while his Vietnamese parter is also…
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Speaker Fehmida Mirza, hosting an Iftar in Marriott for Zardari
STRATFOR quotes sources in Geo News that the Speaker National Assembly Fehmida Mirza was hosting an Iftar dinner in Marriott today in honor of the President Mr. Asif Ali Zardari when the blast occurred at the Hotel but luckily Mr. Zardari was not there. With this information coming into light, one must look at this…