“I tremble when I reflect that God is just and His justness cannot sleep forever”– Thomas Jefferson Six decades of Pakistan’s history bear testimony to the fact that each successive government — whether military or civil — has proved worse than its predecessor. There is an increasing sense of disillusionment, even despair, in the future [...]
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For whom the bell tolls
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Altaf’s call to the army
The unexpected statement by the MQM chief Altaf Hussain, calling on ‘patriotic’ army generals to act against corrupt politicians, has created an immediate political stir. Comments favouring martial law are always unwelcome – particularly when a democratically elected government is in the middle of its tenure. But at the present time these comments may represent [...]
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Pakistan president targeted by shoe-throwing protester in Birmingham
Pakistan‘s president Asif Ali Zardari narrowly avoided being hit by a pair of shoes after a protester attempted to attack him during a speech in Birmingham over the weekend. Sardar Mohammed Shamim Khan, 57, was led away by police after hurling his shoes at Zadari on Saturday in protest at the president’s handling of the [...]
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Still uneducatedStill Uneducated
Brave words need to be followed by brave deeds. Our president had vowed to ‘educate’ British Prime Minister David Cameron at their meeting at Chequers on Friday, but it would seem that suddenly education was off the agenda. There was very little educating going on and rather a lot of the recycling of diplomatic platitudes [...]
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This is anarchy
The NAB prosecutor general tells the Supreme Court, including the chief justice, that it is unfit to hear the Bank of Punjab case. The chief minister of Balochistan tells the media a bachelor’s degree is valid, whether fake or genuine. The government defies Supreme Court orders by not implementing them. The Punjab Assembly passes a [...]
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