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Category: Zardari

  • Tahira Abdullah’s emotional appeal to Sherry Rehman and PPP

  • PM Gilani can become a hero from zero

    Guest Blog by NRehman Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has a chance of a life time to become a long awaited hero for the Pakistani nation. If the PM stands firm against Presedent Zardari and ask the Parliament to vote for the restoration of the judiciary, he will get an enormous applause from the…

  • Why ‘Bangladesh Model’ is inevitable

    Guest blog by Ahmed Nadeem Political and administrative blunders being committed by our saviors on daily basis are clear signs of death of the Feb 18 mandate. Bad luck of our leaders – Media picks each of such blunders and passes to public. The shady explanations, fake excuses and rhetoric of leaders which follow to…

  • Method of Appointing Judges

    Extracted from an email sent by the Emergency Moderator to the Emergency Mailing List on 8th March 2009 As stated a few days back, we are circulating a proposal on the method of appointing judges that is somewhat more detailed than the one given in the charter of democracy. In the mean time, the PPP…

  • Ansar Abbasi talks to ABN Chicago

    ABN Chicago‘s Exclusive Presentation: Interview with Ansar Abbasi (aired on March 1st 2009) The interview includes discussion on the following topics: Recent Political situation in Punjab and if we are going back to the 90s. Is it possibility of Army intervening in the situation. The difficulties in doing investigative journalism in Pakistan with special reference…

  • Back to Square One

    Credit FASTRising Blog The following was written on 28th February – before the “mobile justice” Presidential Ordinance (finally withdrawn on 3rd March) and before the attack on the Sri Lankan national cricket team – in response to the promulgation of Governor’s Rule in the Punjab and the official obstruction of the Punjab Assembly sessions by the…

  • Media barred from NWFP senate elections

    It is being reported on various media outlets that the Senate elections in the NWFP region have been barred from the media. GEO.TV The journalists have been disallowed entering into the assembly hall for the coverage of the polling underway, while scores of them kept waiting outside the assembly. It may be recalled that the…

  • Secret Investigative report emerges [22nd Jan] showing threat to Sri Lanka team

    A secret investigative report has just surfaced prepared by the Additional Inspector General of the Crime Investigation Division, Punjab on 22nd January 2009 outlining the potential threat to the Sri Lankan team. It outlines very briefly the following four points It has reliably been learnt that “RAW” (Indian Intelligence Agency) has assigned its agents the…

  • Mr. Zardari remained Mr. Zardari afterall

    Guest blog by Amjad Malik, MA, LLM I wrote on 7 September 2008 that the litmus test for Mr. Zardari to prove whether he is an ‘don’ or an originator of a new dawn of democracy in Pakistan depends on his progress on 5 things: a) how he handles absolute power, b) his party, c)…

  • Mass arrests likely in the days leading upto the Long March

    Reports are emerging across a few networks that there are likely to be mass arrests across the country leading up to the Long March slated to arrive in Islamabad on March 16th. Indications arise from the latest decision by Mr. Asif Zardari to setup mobile courts on Sunday by promulgating an ordinance to amend the…

  • A short history of Asif Ali Zardari

    Khalid Omar writes a short detailed history of Mr. Asif Ali Zardari, though for a Pakistani its nothing new, but its mostly a much needed refresher since we seem to have been missing out on the facts how this small time un-educated feudal lord climbed the power corridor to become the most powerful man in…

  • MQM Scheme for the Breakup of Pakistan

    Islamabad Observer shares an article by Usman Khalid, a retired Brigadier of the Pakistan Army and the Director of the London Institute of South Asia. Never in the history of any country, its government has so consistently acted against the national interest as the Zardari Administration while the MQM in tandemn with Asif Zardari’s PPP…

  • Zardari threatens: I will deal with Lawyers

    President Zardari has categorically said “You will see how I deal with the lawyers,” in a way threatening the lawyers long march due to hit Islamabad on March 9th. This comes from a democratically elected president who dishonored several written agreements regarding the restoration of entire deposed judiciary and even used the lawyers movement to…

  • Long March 2009, Once bitten twice shy

    Guest Blog by Amjad Malik On 28 March 2008, when Chief Justice Chowdhary visited Mr. Zardari to pay condolences over the death of Be Nazir Bhuttoo, the writer wrote as following, “It’s an ill advice of half lawyer half politician leaders who sometimes are trapped in between party loyalty and the cause of independence of…

  • Rebuttal to Ahmed Quraishi’s article, Lawyers’ Iftikhar: A Messiah Or A Pawn?’

    Guest Blog by SM In his recent article, Lawyers’ Iftikhar: A Messiah Or A Pawn?, written on Monday January 26, Ahmed Quraishi has committed a crucial cause and effect mistake while recounting the events related to the historic lawyers’ movement and the de-facto Chief Justice of Pakistan, Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry. This article aims to expose the…