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Tag: Zardari

  • Soomro interim President – Zardari to become President

    Very reliable sources from the US – the main broker of the Musharraf exit deal have just chimed in to say that, Musharraf will resign from the Presidency in 48 hours to be replaced by Chairman Senate for a few days after which Asif Ali Zardari will become the next President of Pakistan. The news…

  • Musharraf to Quit rather then face impeachment

    Intense secret talks between the ruling coalition and President Musharraf are seemingly have come to a breakthrough where President Pervez Musharraf is expected to leave office in the next few days just before the Parliament takes up the impeachment proceedings against him. At present they are reportedly under intense discussion (48hrs) whether he will choose…

  • 61 years and counting – Happy Independence Day PAKISTAN

    I must begin with offering my felicitations to each and every Pakistani for the 61st Independence Day. May this upcoming year be fruitful for Pakistan, having suffered through a tumultuous political roller coaster in the past few months [and years], people stand today ready to abandon this nation for greener pastures of foreign lands, quite…

  • What if Hamid Mir’s Spin is Wrong?

    Guest Post by temporal – Baithak What if Hamid Mir’s spin is wrong? Every person who writes for a newspaper is not by default a “journalist.” Here is a list borrowed from The Elements of Journalism by Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel Journalism’s first obligation is to the truth. Its first loyalty is to the…

  • Musharraf – Saved By the CIA and Zardari?

    Guest Post by Hassan Abbas The world is abuzz with news about the impending impeachment of General Musharraf . Pakistan’s ruling coalition goes around with broad smiles, oozing confidence about the outcome of their efforts. Even the vibes coming from Washington which has so often affected the fate of Pakistani governments seems to be supportive…

  • STRATFOR: Army ‘Not Supporting’ Musharraf

    Strategic Forecasting, Inc. shares an article on Pakistan as well as a short podcast on the same subject Stratfor Podcast on Pakistan 7th August 2008 – [audio:Stratfor_Podcast.mp3] PAKISTAN: MUSHARRAF, IMPEACHMENT AND ISLAMABAD’S TRAJECTORY After some four months of disagreements over the fate of President Pervez Musharraf, the two main partners in Pakistan’s coalition government —…

  • ISI spared from Rehman Dakait

    After yesterday’s reports where the ISI had been handed over to the Ministry of Interior for ‘one whole day’ and then at 3am early Sunday morning the Prime Ministers office issues a clarification saying that [oops sorry] ‘it was result of a misunderstanding‘, truly one gets a feeling for a moment that the ISI was…

  • Rehman Dakait given control of ISI and IB

    With immediate effect a notice has been issued by the Prime Ministers Secretariat whereby the two top intelligence agencies, Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) and the Intelligence Bureau (IB), were handed over to hence forth be controlled by the Ministry of Interior which incidentally is headed by none other then Rehman Malik (aka Rehman Dakait [robber]…

  • 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…

  • Update on ASP Shahid Hayat rumor

    After the publication of our latest Rumor Mill report which concerned the alleged pardoning of the Police officer involved in the murder of Murtaza Bhutto by the Dogar Court, we very soon received a confirmation report from another credible source who states Yes, all the police officers implicated in the Murtaza Bhutto case (including Shoaib…

  • Rumor Mill: ASP involved in Murtaza Bhutto’s murder compensated by Dogar Court

    This rumor report has been submitted by a credible source, naturally more investigation is still needed Last night at a wedding a very senior government officer narrated to me a strange story. He said that he has seen a Supreme Court document, which is a decision on the application of ASP Shahid Hayat who was…

  • Shedding Crocodile Tears over Inflation

    The News Tuesday, June 24, 2008 by Aqil Sajjad The PPP and its supporters argue that the “common man” cares more about inflation than the restoration of the judiciary. They insist that forcing the present government’s hand on the judges’ issue would create political instability, threaten the democratic process and make it difficult for the…

  • Whatever is to become of the Movement for Justice

    a letter to activists of the People’s Resistance by Dr. Awab Alvi One issue which we all have dodged to question ourselves, is to decide what is acceptable when the powers-to-be talk about the ‘conditional’ restoration of the judiciary, either in the form of the much trumpeted 60-point constitutional package or separately. For me, this…

  • Dawn Op-Ed: Marching into History by Cyril Almeida

    Published today in the DAWN Op-Ed section by Cyril Almeida Cyril does well to decipher the Constitutional mess being created these days by various individuals in Islamabad, the chaos of the Double A’s, Double B’s, Triple A’s and what not have been deliberately designed to perpetually confuse Pakistanis of their real implication. This article helps…

  • You deserve what you get

    For sometime I contemplated if this article may best be simply linked too in the collection of Decidous Links [mini-links] we have running on the blog but then it would not have opened an opportunity for comments and reactions and I suspect this heart felt article by Ghazala Minallah might evoke some comments from our…