All posts tagged PML N

Irshad Ahmad Haqqani in today's column having indepth analysis on Pak US relations. He is showing concerns over PPP's inability , that so far failed to maintain good

Irfan Siddiqui is sketching Pak Afghan relations, PPP's relations with president specifically Salman Taseer. Long term relations with PML N and issues hindering in any coalition with PPP

The oath-taking of President Asif Ali Zardari was perceived by friend and foe alike as a historic occasion. Mr Nawaz Sharif called it a victory for democracy and

Hasan Nisaar wishing PPP for their government and seeing pros and cons for smooth run of democracy. He is pointing out some issues which according to columnist, need

HAVING installed a loyalist prime minister and filed his own papers for the presidency (barring a political tsunami he should be the president when these lines appear in

Barring a stroke – of which the chances, it has to be admitted, appear pretty slim – Asif Ali Zardari, son of Hakim Ali Zardari, is all set

On September 6, Pakistan will elect a new president for the next five years. The Election Commission has already accepted the nomination of Asif Zardari, Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui and

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The inevitable has happened, but perhaps much sooner than expected. Facts, perceptions and interpretations combine generating many stories on the causes of the breakup. The only obvious cause

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

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