Posts Tagged ‘Establishment’

Top-level meeting convened to discuss Kerry-Lugar Bill * PM regrets people making comments about bill without even reading it * PPP meeting agrees to build consensus on bill MUZAFFARABAD: A meeting of the country’s top leadership is being convened soon to discuss the Kerry-Lugar bill and its implications, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani [...]

Here is an analysis by Zamarrud Naqvi exposing the influence of Saudi-American players in civil and military establishment (more...)

احتجاجی تحریک سازش ہے: قرار داد احمد رضا بی بی سی اردو ڈاٹ کام، کراچی قرارداد حکمران اتحاد میں شامل جماعت متحدہ قومی موومنٹ کے سردار احمد نے پیش کی سندھ اسمبلی نے بدھ کو [...]

Dangerous options By I.A. Rehman Thursday, 12 Mar, 2009 (Dawn) Much can be said in favour of all the three gladiators in the arena — the lawyers, the government and the PML-N-but much weightier are the arguments against them. The lawyers were on a high moral ground till they decided to bet on the PML-N’s capacity to bring the [...]

Talk of belling the catTuesday, December 30, 2008By Anjum NiazThe writer is a freelance journalist with over twenty years of experience in national and international reportingShaheen Sehbai’s surgical strike on President Zardari in this newspaper on Dec 26 offered an eclectic mix of facts and speculation. While swathing populist sentiments of [...]

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The PPP and the Army The ruling PPP and the Pakistan Army seem to be in sync even as the Americans seem to be speaking with many tongues over policy in the war against terrorism. Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has fully backed COAS General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on his handling of the two challenges facing Pakistan: the insurgency in Bajaur [...]

Munno bhai writes on the campaign of the Mullah Media Alliance against the political class and their insistence that NRO must be dry-cleaned in the 'fauji laundry'. (more...)