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Articles with tag: 2008

A Walk down Memory Lane

Zeejah    Apr 1, 2008   interacts: 26

Forgive me if I am not taken in by the high sounding statements issued by the winners (and losers) of Election 2008, I simply see 'more of the same' for the future.

Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa Agha on Pakistan Military

AliHasan Cemendtaur   Mar 2, 2008   interacts: 22

Stay out of politics, it is good for you, good for us, Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa Agha advises Pakistan Military.

Voting For Change

Beena Sarwar   Feb 19, 2008   interacts: 558

Despite pre-poll manipulation and irregularities voters have rejected the politics of hate and religious extremism.

Election 2008: Looking Ahead

Ishrat Saleem   Feb 19, 2008   interacts: 1

The election result has come as a touch of healing to the anxious, wounded and exhausted and tense nation.

People's Verdict

Dilawar Syed   Feb 19, 2008   interacts: 7

A left-of-center Pashtun nationalist party and Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) bags more than 60% of the seats in provinces neighboring Afghanistan.

Manufacturing a Fig Leaf of Democracy in Pakistan

Abdus S Ghazali   Feb 17, 2008   interacts: 3

According to an IRI poll in September 2006, Musharraf had a 63 percent approval rating. But last October 11, IRI released a poll showing him at 21 percent.

Political Issues Ahead of Pakistan Elections

Mehroz Sadruddin   Feb 16, 2008   interacts: 6

If these elections are not free and fair, irrespective of the turn out, public reaction would “boil up in the times to come,” according to lawyer Sahabnam.

Pakistan Elections 2008 - An analysis

Yasser Latif Hamdani   Feb 11, 2008   interacts: 353

For the first time since the constitution of 1973,elections promise to be fought around an agenda that has to do with democracy, social welfare and minorities rights.

Hillary Clinton a Better Presidential Candidate

dawood mamoon   Aug 9, 2007   interacts: 23

It is quite clear that Obama has put objectivity aside and is following the foot steps of George Bush to at least promote yet another of US foreign policy blunders.

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