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    World Safer Place Because of Bush – Asif Zardari

    by  • September 28, 2008 • Pakistan, Politics, United States, War on Terror • 0 Comments

    This morning’s Daily Times carried a stunning headline for Pakistanis. Asif Ali Zardari, to clarify “the President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan” stated that ”Obviously, the world is a safer place,” he said. “It could have been worse,” in an interview with the Washington Post on Saturday. Can I ask which world Zardari is talking [...]

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    Where lies the responsibility – Kunwar Idris

    by  • May 21, 2007 • Pakistan, Politics • 2 Comments

    This Op-Ed piece was picked up from the Sunday Daily Dawn. Great reading and posted here for your consumption. THE Economist of London described General Musharraf’s autobiography as “laughingly vainglorious”. That description equally fits his reaction to the gang warfare and pillage in Karachi on May 12. Three days and 40 deaths later, according to [...]

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    International Republican Institute

    by  • September 4, 2006 • Politics • 2 Comments

    A few weeks ago, when the South Asian Tribune ran a story that the United States was planning a coup to remove General Musharraf from power, I honestly didn’t put alot of thought into it. There is always a coup of some kind in process in Pakistan, whether it comes from the religio-fascists that don’t [...]

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