Posts Tagged ‘Asif Zardari’
Pakistan opts out of isolationism, Zardari’s address at the UN
President Asif Ali Zardari’s address at the General Assembly of the United Nations on Thursday has to be rated as a good speech that fairly expressed Pakistan’s point of view on the problem of terrorism while avoiding the kind of isolationism that exuded from the speech of his Iranian counterpart, Mr Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Mr Zardari sounded a [...]
A shameful forgery (by Ansar Abbasi and other anti-PPP Junoonis)
The past week has seen a vicious electronic and press campaign maligning President Asif Ali Zardari through a forgery. Someone forged a garbled version of his remark recorded in the visitors’ book at the mausoleum of the Quaid-e-Azam and sent it around. Mr Zardari had carefully written, “May God give us the strength to save Pakistan”. This [...]
Punjab’s undesirable politics of defection (i.e. Lota Politics)
Despite advice from all sane quarters, Punjab is in the grip of a power tussle. A firm arrangement is making transition to an uncertain one that is going to be haunted by court cases and general acrimony. The PMLN government wants to end the coalition with the PPP and wants its ministers out of its cabinet. Since it falls short of a majority after [...]
War on Terror: Clash of realism and populism in Pakistan
Comment about the government’s policy on the war against terrorism is understandably rife in the media because of the sensitivity of the issue at hand. Some reporters speaking from areas of conflict are advising the government to “do what the people want”. Others are asking why there was no talk at the Foreign Office briefing to President [...]
Mother of all challenges facing President Zardari
According to one report, there are five challenges that the new President of Pakistan, Mr Asif Ali Zardari, will face. These are ones posed by rising militancy, a failing economy, fledgling democracy, conflict with India, and his own personal safety. More realistically, he is supposed “to respond to Western pressure to crack down on Taliban and [...]
A great victory, a perilous task – Tanvir Ahmad Khan
Tanvir Ahmad KhanThe questions of provincial autonomy, relations between the presidency and parliament, the right balance between the powers of the president and the prime minister and the fullest possible rehabilitation of the judiciary will have to be addressed adequately and promptlyOn February 18, the people of Pakistan belied many dark [...]
President Zardari and media obsessions
On Tuesday, at the press conference following his swearing-in, President Asif Ali Zardari set the tone by saying: “The president will only carry forward the brief of the government and bow before the parliament; the president will be subservient to parliament”. This is all he could say as president, but those present around him wanted him to [...]
The politics of values – by Adrian A Husain
By Adrian A HusainPOWER can at times appear shamanistic. It is able to steal into hearts, subtly persuade and, with devastating logic, finally prevail. The political adroitness of Asif Ali Zardari, the new president-elect of the country, has achieved precisely this.No mere ‘accident’ or proxy, he succeeded, on the contrary, in (more...)
A non-defence of Zardari – by Dr Meekal Aziz Ahmed
http://thenews.jang.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=135222Thursday, September 11, 2008by Dr Meekal Aziz Ahmed (The News) I write in regards to the unrelenting, but not entirely unexpected, stream of criticism and abuse being hurled at Mr Zardari in Pakistani newspapers and elsewhere, including the Internet, on his becoming president. Of course, [...]
