Things categorized as 'Anwar Syed'
February 9th by Anwar Syed.
IT is said that Pakistan is going through a period of transition to democracy. Elections were held nearly a year ago. Representative assemblies are in place. They have been meeting, ...
October 19th by Anwar Syed.
WE the Punjabis have never excelled in the art of associating together to pursue the common good. A few relevant cases described below may be of interest.
An unceasing quest for ...
September 28th by Anwar Syed.
ACTIONS have consequences that catch up with us sooner or later. But this law of nature does not seem to apply equally to rulers. Presidents and prime ministers often get ...
September 21st by Anwar Syed.
AMBIGUOUS are words, phrases, or statements that are open to more than one interpretation. Ambivalence is a state of mind in which a person entertains at the same time two ...
September 7th by Anwar Syed.
POLITICIANS in Pakistan tend to flatter their audiences with the observation that they, the peo-ple, have waged a long struggle for democracy.
Following the election held on Feb 18, 2008, it ...
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 17th by Anwar Syed.
WE have all heard of environmental degradation. The ozone layer of the earth’s upper atmosphere is becoming thinner and there is the danger that one day it may develop a ...
August 10th by Anwar Syed.
ON July 26, 2008 a Cabinet Division notification announced that the Inter Services Intelligence Directorate had been taken out of the prime minister’s establishment and placed under the interior ministry.
This ...
August 3rd by Anwar Syed.
SENATOR Khalid Mahmood (JUI-F) recently called upon Mr Nawaz Sharif (July 14) to stop raising “non-issues” such as the reinstatement of the deposed judges. Others have spoken in the ...
July 27th by Anwar Syed.
WHEN two or more persons make plans to commit a crime, they may be said to have hatched a conspiracy.
Discussion of the project does not become a conspiracy unless the ...
July 13th by Anwar Syed.
IT has been strangely quiet on the political front with no report of any significant development, except that the government may be toying with the idea of launching an ‘operation’ ...
