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Meray Mutabiq 12 July 2009 – [ Must Watch Programme]Dr. Shahid Masood brings a very HOT episode of Meray Mutabiq discussing governance and corruption issues of Zardari & his government with Haroon Rasheed. For Video Click here
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Meray Mutabiq 12 July 2009 – [ Must Watch Programme]Dr. Shahid Masood brings a very HOT episode of Meray Mutabiq discussing governance and corruption issues of Zardari & his government with Haroon Rasheed. For Video Click here
Filed Under: News From You
I appreciate your feeling for Pakistan and Pakistani but unfortunately you too, expecting to control sole centralize power in your hand so that you can solve the public grievances as you too did in the past. Like other politician did in last 60 years. However you want to show the people that you are the […]
Filed Under: News From You · Politics
Source: SindhToday.net
Pakistan’s defence minister has criticised former prime minister Nawaz Sharif for his alleged calls for civil disobedience and charging President Asif Ali Zardari with being a political “dictator”, saying his comments amount to treachery towards the nation.
“The words uttered by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif fall well within the ambit of treason,” […]
Filed Under: Politics
Source: UPI
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 28 (UPI) — Protests against a court ruling banning former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his brother from holding office entered a third day Saturday.
For his part, Sharif has accused President Asif Ali Zardari of influencing Wednesday’s Supreme Court decision. The high court, in its decision, upheld the ban against […]
Filed Under: Politics
Source: VOA News
Thousands of supporters of opposition leader Nawaz Sharif protested in Pakistan Thursday, angered over a court decision banning him and his brother from elected office.
Sharif denounced the Supreme Court ruling, blamed President Ali Asif Zardari, and called for more protests at a rally near the eastern city of Lahore in Punjab province. Around […]
Filed Under: Politics
There are fissures in the foundations of Pakistan which is due to the severe scarcity of superior leaders in our political and nonspecific arena. Since the departure of Mohammad Ali Jinnah and Liaqut Ali Khan, the situation has gone haywire in our realm. From Ayub to Zardari, the status quo of this dearth is escalating […]
Filed Under: News From You · Opinions · Politics
Nau jawan writer Faizan Shahzad nay naitazi.com par apne halya byan main kaha hai k mombai main dhamake kya hoe india ko to jese bhana mil gya pakistan par hamla karne ka aisa lagta hai k jese wo tyar betha tha k mulk main koi bra waqia ronoma ho or main is ka ilzam pakistan par […]
Filed Under: News From You
Source: Taiwan News
A bomb exploded at the home of an opposition lawmaker in eastern Pakistan on Monday, killing at least seven people and wounding 61, officials and a witness said.
The blast was the latest in a string of attacks apparently targeting lawmakers in Pakistan, a key ally in the U.S. war on terror.
The country has […]
Filed Under: terrorism
Source: Economic Times
ISLAMABAD: In a bid to woo estranged ally PML-N, Pakistan People’s Party chief Asif Ali Zardari favoured a “national consensus” government to solve the problems of the country even as he strengthened his chances for the presidency by winning the backing of a majority of Baloch lawmakers.
PML-N chief and former premier Nawaz Sharif, […]
Filed Under: Politics
Source: Bloomberg
By Khalid Qayum and Paul Tighe
Nawaz Sharif meets with leaders of his Pakistan Muslim League party today to decide whether to quit the ruling coalition because the Pakistan Peoples Party is ignoring its partners in the alliance.
“There is no need for the party to be part of the coalition government, if one party is […]
Filed Under: Politics
1999 - When Musharraf came in power, everybody thought Pakistan is going to get it right this time around, we are going to get rid of corrupt politicians, our institutions will be stronger, we will progress as a nation and Musharraf would prove that his intent of coup was right … people were jubilant …. […]
Filed Under: News From You · Opinions · Politics
This is in reply to the letter of WG.CDR. (R) AHMED S. JAN (DAWN, 20th May). I completely disagree with his notion that Zardari is abiding with the Bhurban Deceleration and Nawaz Sharif is not. I would request him to read the text of the accord once again:
1 - Allied parties, the Pakistan Peoples Party […]
Filed Under: Emergency 2007 · Miscellaneous · News From You · Opinions · Pictures · Politics · Religion · military · terrorism
Source: PK Politics
A chronology of key events:
1906 - Muslim League founded as forum for Indian Muslim separatism
1940 - Muslim League endorses idea of separate nation for India’s Muslims.
1947 - Muslim state of East and West Pakistan created out of partition of India at the end of British rule. Hundreds of thousands die in widespread communal […]
Filed Under: Politics
Source: Bloomberg
By Khalid Qayum and Farhan Sharif
May 20 (Bloomberg) — The Pakistan Peoples Party, leader of the coalition government, will present a plan this month to reduce the powers of President Pervez Musharraf, which include the right to dissolve parliament and appoint Supreme Court judges.
“The constitutional package is one of the most critical issues right […]
Filed Under: Politics
Source: [Emergency] Mailing List
By Asif Ezdi
The decision of the PML-N to withdraw from its coalition with the PPP following the breakdown of their talks on the judges’ issue is good news for all those who want the country to return to the constitutional path after the havoc wrought by Musharraf’s depredations. Particularly welcome is the […]
Filed Under: Politics
Source: International Herald Tribune
Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s party will join lawyers in street protests next month to press for the restoration of judges sacked by President Pervez Musharraf, a spokesman said Sunday, a move that could further strain the unraveling coalition government.
Leaders of the Pakistan lawyers’ movement said Saturday they will organize a “long […]
Filed Under: Politics
Source: Reuters Blogs
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is pushing for visa-free travel with India, and has gone to the extent of saying Islamabad might do it unilaterally if New Delhi is not prepared to go the distance.
As ideas go, visa-free travel in a globalised world isn’t anything remarkable. In the context of the tortured […]
Filed Under: Politics
Source: New York Times
An election tribunal in Lahore accepted the nomination papers of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, paving the way for him to run in legislative elections on June 18. Mr. Sharif’s papers had been rejected during the general elections in February. His party, Pakistan Muslim League-N, pulled out of cabinet ministries this week […]
Filed Under: Politics
Source: AFP
ISLAMABAD (AFP) — Nine ministers from the party of former Pakistani premier Nawaz Sharif resigned Tuesday over a dispute about the reinstatement of judges sacked by President Pervez Musharraf, state TV said.
The ministers from the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) submitted their resignations to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani at his office in Islamabad, the […]
Filed Under: Politics
Source: International Herald Tribune
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: With a self-imposed deadline looming, Pakistani leaders had yet to clinch a deal Sunday on reinstating judges sacked by President Pervez Musharraf, an issue that has threatened to break up the ruling coalition.
U.S.-backed Musharraf removed dozens of judges and declared emergency rule in November to halt legal challenges to his […]
Filed Under: Politics
USA has the flair of meddling in our domestic affairs and has once more proved this notion correct. A US congressional panel by Sheila Jackson Lee, a congresswoman, was told on Wednesday the PPP was doing a good job in Pakistan while Nawaz Sharif needed to be watched. As a matter of fact, since the […]
Filed Under: Miscellaneous · News From You · Opinions · Politics · Religion · terrorism
Source: Daily Times
* War on terror in Pakistan’s interest: Fatemi
By Khalid Hasan
WASHINGTON: Narasimah Rao, when he was prime minister of India, told his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif that he would like to send a delegation to Pakistan led by Dr Manmohan Singh to study the country’s ongoing privatisation programme.
The visit did not materialise because of […]
Filed Under: Business
Source: Chicago Tribune
Move could give lift to new government
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan’s ruling parties apparently have agreed how to restore the judges fired by President Pervez Musharraf last fall, potentially resolving the most contentious issue facing the fledgling government and preventing the fragile coalition from collapsing.
Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, leader of the second-largest party […]
Filed Under: Politics
Why am I not surprised to hear this? *chuckles*
So our democratic, non-barbaric, pious, and ‘civil’ government has had the door slammed on their face by the T-Boys. Ha. Were you really expecting them to do otherwise? How silly of you.
There were basically four demands put forward by the T-boys to our kind government:
- Withdrawl of […]
Filed Under: Miscellaneous · News From You · Opinions · Politics · Religion · military
Source: AFP
ISLAMABAD (AFP) — Pakistan’s ruling coalition has failed to agree on a plan to restore judges sacked by President Pervez Musharraf, but will reinstate them “soon”, former premier Nawaz Sharif said Tuesday.
Sharif, the head of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz party, held two days of talks with Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of slain opposition […]
Filed Under: Emergency 2007 · Politics