ICH BIN EIN TAMIL AND PASHTUN
We are all Tamil and Pashtun today: BRADISTAN CALLING Ich bin ein Tamil and Pustun. We are all Tamil and Pashtun today, back in 1960s American President J.F Kennedy chanted for the freedom of Berliners. We should show our humanitarian solidarity with the civilian victims of terrorism in Tamil and Pashtun areas. … Read entire article »
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Silence of the Lambs
Silence of the Lambs By Samad Khurram Back in 2002, I was returning from Friday prayers when I saw an unusual gathering of singing and quasi-dancing Mullahs. Unusual because I had always assumed Mullahs to be against all types of Kuffar (Art). The amused crowd were listening to chants of “Taliban aa gayay, Taliban aa gayay”. I smirked. As if! Pakistan is a nuclear country with the seventh largest army. We’re safe. The Mullahs’ songs have been answered … Read entire article »
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Pakistan's Lawyers: Pawn of the moment or tool forever?
by Khaled Ahmed writing in the weekly Friday Times The lawyers are passionate, the retired judges are angry, and those who absent themselves from the country’s biggest display of righteous anger in history keep their mouths shut. The political parties are divided over how to interpret the phenomenon but are clearly grinding their separate political axes, looking for the right purchase on what the lawyers are up to. The anger of the wukla and the enthusiasm … Read entire article »
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Asif Zardari Ticks Off Aitzaz Ahsan??
I have no comments on this news-item published in the Daily Times. Since it is still not verified by either of the parties, it remains uncertain whether this incident ever happened? NAUDERO: PPP Co-chairman Asif Zardari is reported to have ticked off Aitzaz Ahsan in an after-dinner gathering of the PPP’s Central Executive Committee (CEC) members in Naudero on the subject of the restoration of the judges, independence of the judiciary and the threatened long march by Aitzaz and his supporters. According to sources present on the occasion, Zardari took Aitzaz to task for constantly threatening to launch a long march to force parliament to restore Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry and the other deposed judges. Zardari advised Aitzaz to go ahead with his long march if he was so keen on it instead … Read entire article »
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PAKISTAN: Putting Development Back on the Agenda
By Beena Sarwar KARACHI, Apr 2 (IPS) – Pakistan’s new prime minister has announced what many term a `revolutionary’ agenda: continue the `war on terror’ but on Pakistan’s terms, lift the long standing ban on student and trade unions, raise minimum wages, revoke `black’ media laws, provide relief for farmers and observe austerity. Yousuf Raza Gillani revealed his ambitious initial 100 day plan for his government after obtaining an unprecedented unanimous vote of confidence in the National Assembly. The plan has breathed fresh air into this nuclear-armed South Asian nation where military-dominated politics has long been marked by acrimony, bitterness and vengefulness. A new in-house advertisement on the popular television channel Geo TV captures the mood: clips of various politicians bantering, smiling and laughing. The slogan, `Jeo, muskura kar’ (`Live life with a smile’). The country that gave the world its first Muslim woman prime minister, Benazir … Read entire article »
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Three Two Cheers For Democracy*
a typically immature rant by kinkminos Hear, hear. With an absolute lack of cynicism i’d like to wish Mr Gillani and the soon to be formed government of Pakistan a memorable term in office. (Memorable for the people that is, not for them.) Perhaps the best thing that can be said (at this stage, as he has still to prove himself worthy of the post) of Mr Gillani’s election to the office of PM is that his winning means that the other candidate, Ch. Perv. Elahi, is not First Minister (no mere silver lining, imho). Still, the optimism (thank God there is still some vestige of it left in me, i don’t know why or how) is tinged with a sense of oh-no-here-we-go-againism. For while the freshly minted PM … Read entire article »
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Yousuf Raza Gilani elected new Prime Minister of Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly Monday elected PPP’s Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani as the new prime minister of the country with thumping majority. Gilani bagged 264 votes. The rival candidate Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, fielded by the Pakistan Muslim League-Q and its allies secured 42 votes. In a maiden speech on the floor of National Assembly after he was elected as Prime Minister, he said, “I request the national assembly as my first job to pass a resolution for UN probe into the assassination of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto.” Elaborating the top priorities of the new government, the newly elected Prime Minister of Pakistan Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani vowed to take all out efforts for the supremacy of parliament. He also said the National Assembly should pass another resolution to apologize to the nation for hanging of … Read entire article »
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Pakistan's New Prime Minister
Yousaf Raza Gillani – a profile By Amjad Warraich LAHORE: Pakistan People’s Party’s (PPP) nominee for prime minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani, is a seasoned politician with strong background of influential political family and vast experience of local to national level politics. Presently the vice chairman of the PPP, he served as the National Assembly speaker during Benazir Bhutto’s second government from 1993 to 1996 and as a federal minister in Muhammad Khan Junejo’s … Read entire article »
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PAKISTAN: Historic resolution is now before the National Assembly
A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission A few suggestions to remove ambiguities from the AHRC History is being made in the National Assembly of Pakistan. The Speaker was elected and the debates have already begun. True to the pledge given to the voters to restore the chief justice and all the other judges who were ousted, a resolution has already been drafted and is being discussed now. The newspapers have published this draft and we reproduce it below in its entirety with just a few suggestions for the strengthening of the resolution and the removal of any ambiguity regarding the intention of the legislature with regard to the restoration of the Constitution of the Republic of Pakistan as it stood in November 2007; that is before the Provisional Constitutional Order … Read entire article »
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