Tag: President Zardari
Thrown into a tailspin
Why make a bad situation worse?
Either he kept contradicting himself or his claims were being constantly refuted. Mansoor Ijaz must have been happy to...
The military-civilian chasm
Who will fall through?
What was common knowledge is now official. Going by the replies filed by the Army Chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, ISI...
One-man demolition squad
Thus spake Mansoor, again…
Mansoor Ijaz’s claim regarding the alleged memo was taken extremely seriously by the establishment, opposition parties and the Supreme Court. The...
Haqqani refutes efforts to ‘malign’ him
Pakistan’s former ambassador to the United States, Husain Haqqani has rejected the impression that he tried to leave the country along with President Zardari,...
The rumour stock
Buy on the fly, sell on the news…
The news about President Asif Ali Zardari’s departure for Dubai on December 6 for medical treatment generated...
Hail the Monkey
Spiralling downwards
One afternoon while sitting on the lawns of a friend’s house near the Himalayan foothills of Islamabad, there was a rustling in the...
Rumours run amok
A flurry of palpitations…
There is never a dull moment in Pakistani politics. Just when the ubiquitous media pundits and discussants hopping from one electronic...
A reluctant leader
Is the young one up to the task?
Bilawal has been prematurely thrust into the frontline politics by two circumstances: the death of Benazir in...
The plot thickens
A system corrupted beyond cure?
A vile premonition has followed the incumbent government each day of its four years in the halls of power. And...
A baptism of fire?
For Bilawal, many obstacles ahead
While the PPP core committee has decided to shift the public focus from Memogate, contradictory statements regarding Zardari’s sudden departure...
He ain’t going nowhere!
Love him or hate him
Even if you are an unabashed critic of the man, you have to grant him one thing, even if grudgingly:...
Rumour mill overdrive
US birdies all around
The readers will recall that last week I mentioned an analyst Spengler’s article in connection with American plans for the region...
NATO attack not deliberate, Obama tells Zardari
The serious nature of differences that erupted in Pakistan-US ties in the aftermath of the NATO attack in Mohmand Agency, in particular Islamabad’s decision...
