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Photo: Daily Times The Asif and Asifa show rolled into London last week as the above photo shows.  The President of Pakistan met the British Prime Minister in Downing Street, the bastion of British power for centuries not with elected dignitiaries instead preferring to drag his  daughter Asifa in the affairs of the state. President [...]

This dedicated series of posts covers the comments of the H tag team that is Hussein Obama and Hillary Clinton. On the eve of President Zardari’s first meeting with President Obama, I am posting Obama’s newest diatribe on issues concerning Pakistan. The subtitle of the post in indicative as I have called Obama’s comments as [...]

I have been in a jovial mood of late, singing a tune even smiling obviously delighted that the Chief Justice has been restored. After a long period of time I can truly say that I am so proud to be a Pakistani, after all this is a new Pakistan we are shaping today one full [...]

On the 9th of March 2007 Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammed Chaudhry stood tall against a military dictator. Two years on from that day I feel somewhat nostalgic and want to state what has been achieved since that fateful day. The stand taken by ‘The Chief’ as I fondly call him and the principled lawyers movement [...]

My views on the so-called ineligibilty of the Sharif brothers is  captured above, need I say more? That said I will say at least this, that it is a wicked verdict coming from the canine Dog(gar) court. The judgement was authored by Mr 10% though it does bear the pawprint of the dog sorry Dog(gar) [...]

George Herbet once said that “hope is the poor man’s bread”. In luckless Pakistan this hope is all that people live for, hoping against hope for the miracle of a better tomorrow. However miracles do not come easy in this land of the pure made impure by military and civilian dictatorships alike. That said a correction [...]

Pakistan is today a nation in total freefall. The optimism and hopes after February 18th seem a distant memory now with the nation now starved of food, power and basic human rights whilst her leaders tour the globe.   Pakistan has been put on autopilot on the road to hell without anyone to steer it away from the multiple [...]

It has taken me more than a few weeks to stomach and digest the news that Pakistan has elected our revered Mr 10% as her President. Indeed I still have to pinch myself daily to prove I am alive and that this is not a nightmare I am seeing.  But sadly it is a nightmare and its not on Freddy Krueger’s [...]

On the eve of the April 30 Murree declaration deadline I wanted to place on record my views on the subject. I have refrained from commenting on the issue up till now as I had hoped the PPP would be interested in extinguishing the fire that is today Pakistan, instead they seem ‘Duracell-ready’ to inflame [...]