Things added in August, 2008
August 31st by Khalid Aziz.
This asymmetric war is being waged at different levels in FATA and THE NWFP. Unlike a conventional war, where success and failure is measured in term of enemy area captured, ...
August 31st by Anwar Syed.
PERVEZ Musharraf resigned as president on Aug 18. The two Houses of parliament and the four provincial assemblies, acting as an electoral college, will elect a new president on Sept ...
August 31st by Kunwar Idris.
THE people and the press have often spoken of ‘milestones’ and ‘turning points’ — which never were — in Pakistan’s 61-year march downhill. If one event can be so described, ...
August 31st by Dr Farrukh Saleem.
Can anyone name a Pakistani soul who has more votes in our presidential electoral college than does Mr Asif Ali Zardari? To be certain, presidential-hopeful Zardari is a ...
August 31st by Ayesha Tammay Haq.
The good is oft interred with their bones. As a law student, one read about the importance and the influence of morality, ethics, culture and religion on law.
How the moral ...
August 31st by Zaheerul Hassan.
In respect of coming Ramadan Pakistan Government announced unilaterally cease fire in Swat and surrounding area against militants. The interior minister of Pakistan categorically mentioned ...
August 30th by Rahimullah Yusufzai.
One would have wished Pakistan to have a non-partisan president, and certainly most Pakistanis harbour a similar wish. But this may not happen as PPP co-chairman Asif Ali ...
August 29th by Zaheerul Hassan.
On August 28, 2008 Democrats formally nominated Barack Obama and Joseph Biden their respective presidential and vice presidential candidates with the hope of staying in white House for next eight ...
August 29th by Shafqat Mahmood.
One reflection of the dizzy pace of events over the last ten days is that Pervez Musharraf is now almost forgotten. Everyone knows he is around and there is some ...
August 29th by Ayaz Amir.
In a land which has always excelled at all kinds of ironies—none more striking than the constant gap between rhetoric and reality—the ultimate irony has to be Asif Ali Zardari ...
August 29th by Ayesha Siddiqa.
TERRORIST attacks are becoming a horrible reality in Pakistan. Things become scarier each time there is an attack involving a sensitive organisation.
Such an attack always raises questions about ...
August 28th by Kamran Shafi.
BAD idea, Asif Zardari putting himself up for election as president, and worse, to do it without consulting the PML-N, the other part of the quite wonderful experiment of ...
August 28th by I A Rehman.
ONE of the issues frequently raised by political parties is that the crises of the state and the plight of the people have been aggravated by the failure of political ...
