Things categorized as 'Asif Ezdi'
January 11th by Asif Ezdi.
The Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Reform (PCCR) was set up in June in response to the demand for constitutional amendments agreed in the Charter of Democracy (CoD). The principal constitutional ...
September 26th by Asif Ezdi.
As a presidential candidate, Obama publicly acknowledged the importance of resolving Kashmir. His interest of course was not in getting the Kashmiris their rights, but in winning Pakistan's full cooperation ...
September 10th by Asif Ezdi.
The Gilgit-Baltistan (Empowerment and Self-Governance) Order, 2009, approved by the cabinet on Aug 29 seeks to grant self-rule to the people of the area on the pattern of the autonomy ...
August 26th by Asif Ezdi.
In an interview with a TV channel on Aug 17, Zardari said that the NRO was history. It was no more an issue. These were his first public comments on ...
August 5th by Asif Ezdi.
The main interest in the constitutional cases decided by the Supreme Court on July 31 was not whether Musharraf's PCO of November 2007 would be overturned. That was taken as ...
July 23rd by Asif Ezdi.
There is no doubt about it. India climbed down at Sharm el-Sheikh. It had earlier made a dismantling of the "infrastructure of terrorism" and the prosecution of those accused of ...
July 1st by Asif Ezdi.
Since the victory of the Congress Party in the Indian parliamentary elections last May, the new government of Manmohan Singh has been sending more positive signals on a dialogue with ...
June 20th by Asif Ezdi.
President Zardari's announcement on June 12 that an army cantonment would be established in Swat to prevent a return of the Taliban shows how far the government is from achieving ...
June 6th by Asif Ezdi.
After the victory of the Congress party in the Indian parliamentary elections, Pakistan has again called for a resumption of the 'composite dialogue' which India suspended after the terrorist attack ...
May 26th by Asif Ezdi.
The divergence between Pakistan and France over what was supposedly agreed between the two sides in the field of nuclear cooperation at Zardari’s meeting with French president Sarkozy on May ...
May 21st by Asif Ezdi.
The military action in Swat that began on 8 May has been greeted with approval – and in some cases loud approval – by most of our political parties as ...
May 16th by Asif Ezdi.
Our American friends have been telling us for sometime now that the real threat to Pakistan comes not from India but from Islamic militancy. Pakistan should therefore redeploy some of ...
March 20th by Asif Ezdi.
If the struggle for the reinstatement of Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry and the other judges unconstitutionally removed was for undoing the wrong done to them by a military dictator gone ...
March 16th by Asif Ezdi.
“When politics enters the Palace of Justice, Democracy, its cherished inmate, walks out of the backdoor.” (The Supreme Court of Pakistan – 1958).
Every passing day underscores the urgency of the ...
March 16th by Asif Ezdi.
President Asif Zardari’s offer of March 14 to resolve the “issue of judiciary and restoration of judges” in accordance with the principles laid down in the Charter of Democracy (CoD) ...
March 10th by Asif Ezdi.
The decision of the PCO judges to disqualify Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif from holding elected office had been on the cards for quite some time. Characteristically, Zardari tried to ...
October 30th by Asif Ezdi.
Shortly before Musharraf's unceremonious ouster from the presidency last August, some PML-Q leaders suggested to him that he should cancel the NRO and restore the deposed judges before resigning. This ...
October 15th by Asif Ezdi.
Zardari's tour de force on his visit to New York was not his flirtation with Sarah Palin. His masterpiece was not even his speech at the UN General Assembly at ...
October 6th by Asif Ezdi.
The United Nations General Assembly decided on 15 September to commence inter-governmental negotiations on expanding the Security Council in the informal plenary of the Assembly not later than 28 February ...
September 18th by Asif Ezdi.
In a country where politics is a no-holds-barred game of winner takes all, we have been blessed with many star players. It is the only game in which we excel. ...
August 27th by Asif Ezdi.
Zardari has done it again. For the second time, he has reneged on his solemn commitment to restore the dismissed judges within the agreed timeframe through a parliamentary resolution. On ...
August 16th by Asif Ezdi.
One of Kafka’s short stories is about a mouse who complains that the world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning, it was so big that he kept running ...
August 8th by Asif Ezdi.
Daily Times has carried a two-part article by Mr Ejaz Haider (August 4-5) in which he describes my article on the India-US nuclear deal which appeared in this newspaper on ...
