Chat with Cisco Country General Manager, Dr. Aamir Matin
A few days back I had the opportunity to sit down for an hour long talk with Dr. Aamir Matin, the Cisco Country General Manager who had flown in from Islamabad to be in Karachi for a few days. The casual meeting was arranged through the efforts of Rabia Garib of Rasala Publications and [...]
A New World Order
Guest Blog by Faisal K - Deadpan Thoughts
In the last 10 years or so we have all watched in horror as disaster after disaster has struck the world. The events I am referring to are mostly man made ones which have left an indelible mark on our history and our conscience, they have also lead [...]
Postal workers in Lahore buying Votes for Rs 1,500 ($25) only ?
Exposing election rigging is a tough job. as the onus of proof generally lies on the accuser, hence usually very tough to prove, at times opposing parties may even try to set each other up simply to humiliate them and pull a few extra votes in the process, everything seems to be fair in our [...]
Cause of death, Gun Shots or Sunroof? Govt foul play suspected
The first reports arriving the day Benazir died was three gun shots to the head resulting in her death, after she was buried today the Govt of Pakistan Interior Ministry spokesman Brig. Javed Iqbal Cheema offers a complete new explanation for the cause of death, he said that she was NOT killed because of the [...]
A Demented Musharraf talks to Newsweek
Newsweek Online has published excerpts of an interview with General (retired) Pervaiz Musharraf taken a few days before the Martial Law was lifted. I share it with you since reading the entire interview one does get an eerie bone chilling sensation that Musharraf has completely lost his sanity and seems to be raging maniac [...]
The NAB Diaries - Part One
Guest Post by Amer Nazir
Part Two of the ‘The NAB Diaries’ can be read here
Part Three of the ‘The NAB Diaries’ can be read here
My name is Amer Nazir. I live in exile in London. It is a forced exile. I left Pakistan as soon as NAB took my name off the Exit Control List [...]
Pakistans Rich List of 2008
Short-listing Pakistan’s most influential business magnates or Groups has never been an easy task because there are the people who have been very powerful in nearly every regime that has held this country’s reins since the last 60 years and then we have had those seasonal species that maneuvered their voice to be heard better [...]
Musharraf’s Economic Deception - Part 1
Guest Post by Dr. Tariq Naeem
General Musharraf took over the reigns of power in 1999 from Nawaz Sharif with the Pakistan economy on the verge of bankruptcy. So desperate was the situation Nawaz Sharif toured the world visiting Pakistanis with a begging bowl requesting them to invest in Pakistan due to the sanctions imposed on [...]
Where do we go from here? - Najam Sethi
Published in the 4th November edition of Daily Times by the editor-in-chief of Daily Times, I think he has outlined the issue quite well and its worth reading
News analysis: Where do we go from here?
By Najam Sethi
Several points are interesting and significant about last nights political rupture.
We have a state of martial law, whatever the [...]
Musharraf’s taped address to nation - Part 2
When in 1999 i took charge of the government, i was intended to take in process a democracratic step and i took that process gradually to change and transfer power to elected reps of the people, now when i took that my strategy was to control administration and move towards stage two. When in [...]
Teeth Maestro Interviewed by Pakistani Spectator
I was recently interview by Ghazala Khan at The Pakistani Spectator - here is the published version as found on their website - I thank her and the entire Pakistani Spectator team for all the kind words they have repeatedly mentioned about me.
Interview with Dr. Awab Alvi : Blogging Maestro
Teeth Maestro is one of the [...]
Plot to Bring Back Benazir
After recovering from the celebrations across the country where majority of Pakistanis celebrated the reinstatement of Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry as the Chief Justice of Pakistan. Its time to look towards the future of Pakistan, one thing we all hope should transpire from this landmark decision is the courage for other legal departments to [...]
Lal Masjid, The End to the Beginning of an Islamic Revolution ?
Before I begin, let me be clear on the issue that I do not hold the Ghazi Brothers in high regard to what they did these past few days, they used women and children as human shields to take an entire city as hostage and in effect ridiculing my country as a nation we harbor [...]
I Support, Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa
The Government of Pakistan (read Pakistan Army) has been trying its best to suppress the release of the book titled Military Inc.: Inside Pakistan’s Military Economy which was written by Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa. Since Friday, the proposed release date the military has pulled all stops to prevent the release of this all-exposing book going [...]
Military Inc.: Banned in Pakistan
The latest book Military Inc.: Inside Pakistan’s Military Economy, written by Ayesha Siddiqa is a tell all narration of the highly profitable company called The Pakistan Army.
The book estimates the militarys share of the economy at over 200 billion rupees, besides owning 11.58 percent of all state land. Military Inc. was due to [...]
