If the security situation in Pakistan is worsening with every passing day, the political situation has also turned explosive with the top ally of beleaguered President Asif Zardari on Monday advising him to quit as the head of the state.
The advice to Zardari came from...
Pakistan ( Lahore )Dated = Thursday, March 12, 2009 ; 08:54 AM PSTNews Source = GEO News PakistanNews Source Link = http://www.geo.tv/3-12-2009/37103.htmPML ( N ) leader Nawaz Sharif has accused the government of...
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" By Moin Ansari Rupee News The gulf between the PPPP and the PMLN is growing. The PMLN has stayed out of the fray and not joined the PPPP. The increased belligerence of Mr. Nawaz Sharif can only be matched by the exponential increase in the public appearances of former...
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" U.S. and U.K.-backed democracy is destroying Pakistan the same way it almost brought Russia to collapse in the 1990s. Pakistan needs a creative and unorthodox solution. This includes curtailing some of the chaotic aspects of democracy in order to help Pakistan heal and...
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"The Pakistani intelligence report released by The News confirms two things: It is time for Pakistan to take punitive measures against India and stop allowing India the use of Pakistani transit and air routes pending the Lahore probe and, two, that the U.S.-installed...
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" “No one party can fool all of the people all of the time, that’s why we have two parties,” says Bob Hope. Zardari may be nearing his end, but what is there to rejoice for if Sharif is his replacement? Both are incompetent, and both belong to parties that...
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ISLAMABAD: The efforts of the ruling Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and its allied parties for reconciliation with twice-elected former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who has been declared by the Supreme Court of Pakistan ineligible to contest election to any public office,...
" The Nawaz league’s recent hooliganism and the destruction of public property isn’t nationalism or a fight for justice. It is sheer terrorism that should be punishable by death! Someone please rid us of both Zardari, Nawaz. Nawaz Sharif has suddenly discovered that...
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Public-private partnerships, the infrastructure development model hailed by some as a superior way for governments to provide hospitals, highways, schools and other large-scale projects to taxpayers, have taken...
" Former Pakistani premier Nawaz Sharif (R) and his brother Shahbaz Sharif surrounded by supporters Pakistan puts its troops on high alert in its Punjab province after a court ruling triggered political unrest in the violence-wracked country. Paramilitary forces were...
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" Nawaz Sharif’s reason for supporting Iftikhar Chaudhry one year ago was to get back at Musharraf, a glorified version of kindergarten revenge. Nothing more. Today, Mr. Sharif’s purpose is to grab the federal government. He believes his right to rule Pakistan was...
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The foreign diplomats in the Pakistan capital are worried because of a twice-elected former prime minister's onslaught on the ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP)."ISLAMABAD, February 22 (Internews): The announcement by former prime minister Nawaz Sharif to take on the ruling...
Public finance initiative (PFI) projects in Britain may be looking for a multi-billion pound bailout from government as funding sources dry up in the wake of the global economic crisis. Some think that when the...
" Nawaz Sharif favored his daughter. Iftikhar Chaudhry his son. The less said about Zardari the better. And the political squabbling continues even during the height of the Mumbai drama that still has the potential to spark off a full scale war. We see this all the time and...
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BORN amidst bloodshed and raised in turmoil, it appears that this country’s has been marked out for unceasing pain and suffering. In fact, the year just ended has had more than its usual share of disappointments — though also the occasional triumph. "Our winter of...