Pakistan has experienced so many dramatic events in the last three years that it is no longer the country the world knew in 2007. Back then, a supremely confident Pervez Musharraf moved between international power centres with ease and basked in the fame of his memoirs, In the line of Fire. He had a plan [...]
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Pakistan and Democratic Policies
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Sharif lashes out
Here we go again. Pouring fuel on Saturday’s fire, Nawaz Sharif has lashed out against President Zardari. The president is the ‘biggest threat to democracy’ in Mr Sharif’s reckoning and the move to replace Lahore High Court Chief Justice Khwaja Sharif was unconstitutional. The PML-N supremo threatened to agitate against the government’s ‘anti-constitutional’ moves inside [...]
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Don’t play down the crisis
This was inevitable. The confrontation had been building up and it was a matter of time before the executive and the judiciary would start defying each other publicly. They are now close to a collision, and the situation could deteriorate further if the politicians and, more importantly, the powerful military command don’t do some fence-mending. [...]
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Fair Play in the Ground
What happened during last few days which we have already mentioned in our blogs, a miserable situation where no one is willing to tolerate his opponents. At the moment, there are three pillars of politics in Pakistan, President Asif Ali Zardari, Mr. Nawaz Sharif and Mr. Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry and working as referee is the [...]
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Closer to conflict
The government’s apparent foot-dragging on the issue of the appointment of judges takes it yet a little closer to conflict with the judiciary. The prime minister, in his latest comments on the matter, has said that the government will indeed appoint judges – he is just not sure when this will happen. A two-member Supreme [...]
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