What if Hamid Mir’s Spin is Wrong?
Guest Post by temporal - Baithak
hamid-mir
What if Hamid Mir’s spin is wrong?
Every person who writes for a newspaper is not by default a “journalist.” Here is a list borrowed from The Elements of Journalism by Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel
Journalism’s first obligation is to the truth.
Its first loyalty is to the citizens.
Its essence is discipline [...]
The dictator is the one animal who needs to be caged - Z. A. Bhutto
Guest Post by Silence
The dictator is the one animal who needs to be caged; He betrays his profession and his constitution. He betrays the people and destroys human values. He destroys culture. He binds the youth. He makes the structure collapse. He rules by fluke and freak. He is the scourge and the ogre. He [...]
STRATFOR: Army ‘Not Supporting’ Musharraf
Strategic Forecasting, Inc. shares an article on Pakistan as well as a short podcast on the same subject
Stratfor Podcast on Pakistan 7th August 2008 - [Audio clip: view full post to listen]
PAKISTAN: MUSHARRAF, IMPEACHMENT AND ISLAMABAD’S TRAJECTORY
Pakistan military with flag
After some four months of disagreements over the fate of President Pervez Musharraf, the two main [...]
A business proposal for Pervaiz Musharraf
Guest Post by Rana Raheel Babar
Mr. Pervaiz Musharraf
The President of Islamic Republic of Pakistan
Pakistan
Re: A Business Proposal
Dear Mr. Pervaiz Musharraf,
It is such an undesirable pleasure to have you (General Purvez s/o Busharraf) as our forced president.
Mr. President, I truly consider it as an outcome of your sincere and untiring efforts for Pakistan that you were [...]
An open letter to Begum Pervez Musharraf and wives of army officers
Guest Post by Silence
Dear Begum Pervez Musharaff,
I recognize that every one of us is responsible for our own acts, as such, being the wife of a Military Dictator and a former General of Pakistan Army, I wound not hold you responsible for his acts, however I will request you to consider following facts on [...]
ISI spared from Rehman Dakait
new-Pakistan-emblem
After yesterday’s reports where the ISI had been handed over to the Ministry of Interior for ‘one whole day’ and then at 3am early Sunday morning the Prime Ministers office issues a clarification saying that [oops sorry] ‘it was result of a misunderstanding‘, truly one gets a feeling for a moment that the ISI was [...]
The rat may come out of the bag…
You get different versions here in London… some very interesting, no matter how sad they are in nature…
A few month back, before the elections, a textile tycoon, a friend, a very ‘educated’ man from Lahore, sat with me at Leister Square’s ‘All Bar One’ and cursed both Benazir and Nawaz. ‘They should both be hung [...]
GHQ to Islamabad
Published in The Nation
by M. Ashgar Khan
The shifting of the Army’s General Headquarters from Rawalpindi to Islamabad has been planned for some time and was given a fresh impetus during 2007. We have not been told what the total financial burden of this move will be but the cost of land alone at the prevalent [...]
Pakistan; The Ongoing “Soft Revolution” towards a “Welfare State” - Part II
Guest Post by Silence
Part I of this series can be read here
The first Cultural Revolution in history of sub-continent was the Sufi movement, from the 13th century A.D. Sufism increasingly attracted the creative social and intellectual energies within the community and with the passage of time it acquired new dimensions and began to deal [...]
Pakistan; The Ongoing “Soft Revolution” towards a “Welfare State” - Part I
Guest Post by Silence
A welfare state is a government that provides for the welfare, or the well-being, of its citizens completely. Such a government is involved in citizens’ lives at every level. It provides for physical, material, and social needs rather than the people providing for their own.
The purpose of the welfare state is to [...]
The Ex-Servicemen and Bureaucrats & Their Consicence
Guest Blog by Temporal from Baithak
Geo has been repeating that interview with retired gen. Kayani. Recently the ex-servicemen have been flexing their muscles. Troubling consciences are known to strike at men and women of good will at all times. Even ordinary mortals like you and me are troubled and stricken with conscience generated guilt and [...]
Explosive Shahid Masood Show exposes Musharraf
no mercy Go Musharraf
In the recent weeks Dr. Shahid Masood’s Meray Mutabiq Show has been very revealing, barely a week back Dr. Masood had pulled the cart out of the bag when he brought Steel Mills Ex-Chairman to expose the corruption of Shaukat Aziz, but today (June 2nd) he was able to pull yet another [...]
Defeating the mind set
Guest Blog by Amjad Malik
People of Pakistan are elated by coming nearer to the fall of General Pervez Musharraf and considering it a beginning of a new era where rule of law, constitutionalism and justice prevails. They consider this as an end of the status quo, dictatorship, and rule of establishment, however they are hardly [...]
All The President’s Men
by Afzal Khan
Islamabad May 24
Musharraf keeps his strangle hold on the governance
Musharrafs version of Democracy in Pakistan
Islamabad May20:”We want governance and not just government”, PPP co-chairman Asif Zardari had bravely declared soon after elections. Unfortunately for him, that runs counter to Gen. (R) Pervez Musharraf’s concept of shedding the authority he had usurped in 1999 [...]
Pakistan Hood’winked
Maj Gen Jay W Hood
It was back in April when Moin Ansari of the Rupee News Blog trumped us with the news that the Commandant of Guantanamo Bay Prison, Maj Gen Jay W. Hood had been sent to Pakistan. It does not take a genius to figure out that Guantanamo Bay was a major [...]
