Source: Daily Times
Having good faith in politics is not enough; it requires permanent vigilance. Law and the constitution must restrain the power of an elected government because power in countries with weak institutions can be misused
From whom must we take our country back? And who is ‘we’?
We can answer the second question without much difficulty: […]

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Source: Daily Times 
* Achakzai says martial law still prevails in form of NSC
By Manzoor Ali Shah
PESHAWAR: Pakhtoonkhawa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) leader Mahmood Khan Achakzai said on Friday that the people of Pakistan had voted against the dictatorship and that now President Pervez Musharraf should admit defeat and resign.
Addressing a news briefing after a two-day […]

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Source: Marxist.com
By Alan Woods on 29th Nov 2007
Events in Pakistan are moving fast. Yesterday, General Musharraf quit as army chief, and was hastily sworn in as president on the same day. The General hopes that in this way he will win respectability in the run-up to the election promised for January 8. This sets the […]

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