Tag: Musharraf
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Zardari’s Watershed US Visit
The singular message president Zardari has given to the West in his semi official tour to the US is that Pakistan can’t fail in its war against terror. The visit that took place in the wake of Pakistan’s 9/11, as claimed by law minister Farooq…
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Pervez Musharraf Plunges into Pakistan Politics Again
Gen. (Retd) Pervez Musharraf, former military dictator of Pakistan who ruled the country with iron hand for about eight years, is entering Pakistan politics through a brand new political party of his own making. On August 11, 2010 talking to The News International, Fawad Chaudhry,…
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Benazir Bhutto’s Assassination was Preventable
A three-member U.N. fact finding Commission headed by Chilean U.N. Ambassador Heraldo Munoz, looking into the circumstances leading to Ms Benazir Bhuttos assassination in Rawalpindi, a city adjoining Islamabad, capital of Pakistan, on 15 April, 2010 declared that the assassination of Bhutto on 27 Dec….
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Independent Judiciary & Democracy
Democracy cannot flourish without independent judiciary. Without independent judiciary justice cannot be instituted. Without justice no society advancing peace, security, love and humanity can be structured: society will disappear into a ragtag mob of undisciplined, unprincipled and illogical swirling sea of brags hankering after their…
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Musharraf’s Political Future
President Musharraf’s political future is in jeopardy. There are multiple reasons for that. All are of his own making though.Why should he seek it out after playing that long an inning is the question that may intrigue many minds. However, more than Musharraf himself his…
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For a Good Cause Mr. President
‘A bad cause will ever be supported by bad means and bad men.’ (Thomas Paine- American political philosopher) After imposing judiciary-specific emergency, sacking about 80 judges and forwarding warped arguments for his actions thereby earning, rightly so, the wrath of the nation, Mr. Musharraf hopes…