Posts Tagged ‘COD’
Charter of Democracy (CoD) Implementation Chart
The Charter of Democracy (COD, signed by Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto and Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif) is indeed a Magna Carta of politics of reconciliation and democracy in Pakistan. Despite a lot of criticism by the right wing media and politicians, a non-governmental institution after a careful scrutiny has revealed that 90% of the CoD has [...]
Nawaz Sharif Backtracked – by Sajid Ali
The Constitution Reform Committee worked for about 9 months at 18th amendment for repealing 17th amendment. The Committee consisted of senior parliamentarian of all parties, treasury as well as opposition. All nation put their eyes at the 24th of March when the Bill was to be tabled but suddenly PML (N) backtracked and took a u-turn. It is now [...]
Has the Charter of Democracy become irrelevant? — by Mohammad Jamil
How can one put highly professional military personnel, dealing with sensitive information, under non-professionals who are not competent enough to do the job? Politics is said to be the art of the possible and some say it is the art of compromise, but in Pakistan it is the art of deceit and deception, as the nation has witnessed how the [...]
The Greater Game of Rightist Establishment
What we are today witnessing is a completely de-politicized youth of Pakistan trying to define Pakistan's politics in a haste and in black and white. There are many grey areas in politics too. Our youth today needs to understand the importance of those grey areas in our History and our Politics. From 1977-1988 Pakistan's youth was exploited in [...]
PPP and PML-N are united against the Friends of Taliban and their designs against democracy
vs Friends of Taliban in the Pakistani media and politics are very upset with this development. For example, read Nazir Naji's column on the frustration of the Taliban lovers and democracy haters in (more...)
2nd Instalment Of Truth – NRO Actually! – by Marvi Sirmed
Selection by: Jarri MirzaArticle written by: Marvi SirmedThis is in continuation of my earlier post on NRO, posted on November 7, 2009, which can be seen at http://marvisirmed.com/?p=193. We were trying to learn about this Ordinance clause by clause. So far we have examined Section II and saw that a major amendment in Criminal Procedures Code [...]
Independent judiciary, meesaq-e-jamhooriat, and Nawaz Sharif…
If Nawaz Sharif is sincere in implementing the "Meesaq-e-Jamhooriat" (the Democracy Accord), then he must stick to all the clauses of the (more...)
