The current political system is in complete turmoil. Political parties are yet again heading towards a dead end and a complete failure. President is worried about selecting his judges, PM is defending president, friendly opposition is not so friendly, judiciary is busy doing strikes, media is getting its hands full, Americans are increasing their presence in Pakistan and the nation is watching left to right like spectators in a tennis match. The sad part is that all the parties have forgotten the nation, masses and people! [click to continue...]
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Hence 90’s Political Style Is Back In Fashion!
After the Supreme Court’s decision on NRO the political canvas has changed the landscape as if hit by a massive earth quake. It seems that we have gone back to 90’s where all we heard was the government clash with other institutes or opposition or corruption or inflation. All this has seen to be revived after the NRO judgment; that came, the most surprising element were the recent comments given by Prime Minister to the media. It came as the most astonishing element of the recent regime when the most widely respected PM lashed out on media in defense of the most controversial President in the history of Pakistan.
According to many experts the current system is heading towards a major clash; i.e. Executive versus Judiciary. It seems that our politicians does not learn from past; and have not seen what happened with Musharraf government in the later stages when judiciary and executive clashed. It is ironic that how our ministers claim that we are in a state of war and look at our government’s priority; fighting against NRO; having more than eight hours long meetings over NRO and its defense; I wonder why there were no such deliberations over the electricity crisis or sugar crisis; perhaps because they were issues of masses and not of the top office holders. [click to continue...]
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NRO Gets a Slap on the Face in Pakistan!
On the cold eve of 16th December, 2009; supreme courts large bench consisting of 17 members out rightly rejected the National Reconciliation Order (NRO) issued on 5th October, 2007 by then Dictator Pervez Musharraf. The decision did not surprise many, including the incumbent government, who was also a party to the case. A lot has been said and read about the NRO beneficiaries and the reason for NRO but this decision officially puts off NRO and restarts the long list of cases that were hanging in air.
Strange things were said in the court during the proceedings and stranger things were heard. A statement from government’s council, “GHQ and CIA want to derail the democratic set-up” then, hiding the details of assets in United Kingdom and Spain. According to an estimate 70% of the case proceedings were on Swiss -Cases; which showed the seriousness of the allegations that were brushes aside using a duster termed as NRO. [click to continue...]
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Exit Control List (ECL) Inducts NRO Beneficiaries
Great news for all the people of Pakistan. The Interior Ministry has placed the names of 248 NRO beneficiaries on the Exit Control List (ECL) on the directives of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB). NAB had sent a list of 248 beneficiaries of the defunct NRO that included federal ministers and bigwigs of the government, bureaucracy and political parties for putting their names on the ECL. The people whose names had been put on the exit control list included the department’s top boss and Interior Minister Rehman Malik.
The names of a host of politicians, bureaucrats and businessmen are on the ECL because under the instructions of the Supreme Court, they require to clear their names through an anti-corruption process. Their cases existed prior to Oct 5, 2007, when NAB courts had been trying them for charges of corruption, kickbacks, commissions and the alleged misuse of authority.
Asif Ali Zardari Leads the Herd
The name of President Asif Ali Zardari has not been put on the ECL because NAB’s legal experts are studying two questions: (i) presidential immunity and (ii) whether immunity would cover cases being tried in foreign courts. However some of the big shots that are included in the list are as follows:
Rehman Malik
Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar
Babar Ghauri
Salman Faruqui
Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao
Nawab Yousuf Talpur
Wasim Akhtar
Dr Imran Farooq
Rana Nazir Khan
Saeed Mehdi
Nawab Yousuf Talpur
Nusrat Bhutto
Jehangir Badr
Ahmad Mukhtar
Malik Mushtaq Ahmed Awan
Rana Nazir Ahmed
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Pervez Musharaf To Be Arrested On Arrival in Pakistan
The tide has shifted and former president Pervez Musharraf would face arrest if he returned to Pakistan. All this after police registered a case against him on Tuesday over his detention of judges during a political crisis in 2007.
The cat and mouse game starts again, it seems like an endless piece of mind boggling jigsaw that would never end, starting from the 60’s every successor has tried to bury his predecessor. Now its former president Pervez Musharraf time to face the reality of being part of Pakistani politics. He could either be arrested on his return or through Interpol.
If convicted he Musharraf could be jailed for three years. This is the first time that such a case has been brought against a former military ruler. The former dictator detained judges and ousted them illegally as a result he has to be tried for his illegal and unconstitutional actions,’ Mohammad Aslam Ghuman, the lawyers who filed the case against Musharraf, told Reuters.
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Shumaila Anjum Rana - The Cyber Thief of PML-N
No wonder PML-N is as corrupt a party as the current PPP government is and that is evident from the incidents of corruption and malpractices by its party leaders. We all know the incidents of PML-N ministers pushing a female minister in the Punjab Assembly and we all are also aware how their minister raped a women and later pressurized her into a deal. If all this was not enough, the Shumaila Anjum Rana decided to come out with an innovative and a high tech crime but she executed it poorly.
Shumaila Anjum Rana decided to steal the credit cards of her fellow gym partner when she was busy lifting some heavy weights. Shumaila must have taken some pick pocket crash courses in her childhood to do a clean sweep without being noticed. On the other hand, she chose Siddique Trade Centre as the best destination to do some shopping and bought some gold sets. She was not careful enough to send someone else and instead went herself to commit the crime in front of the security cameras and hence her story is now public. But at the end of the day, such people are so shameless that they are least bothered about it and will even feel proud to have got some coverage in the media. [click to continue...]
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Tehreek-e-Insaf Central HeadQuarter Attacked
News just coming in that Imran Khans Party Tehreek-e-Insaf Central Secretariat was attacked by unknown person, whereby party members and workers were tortured badly. The News further reports
Unknown persons attacked the central secretariat of Tehreek-e-Insaf and tortured local leaders of the party here on Sunday. Tehreek-e-Insaf leaders told Geo News that in the night between Sunday and Monday, eight armed persons stormed into the office of the party, situated at Embassy Road and started beating the people present there.Local leader of the party Awais Khalid and others wounded in the attack.
Pro-Pakistan will bring you updates as soon as any news is available on this story.
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Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif Declared Ineligible for Elections
Supreme Court of Pakistan has given its rulings and declared Nawaz and Shahbaz Sharif as ineligible to contest elections. I wonder if this will impact their current positions as well? In case yes, Shahbaz Sharif will have to step down from the position of Chief Minister of Punjab. This will also intensify their involvement in the upcoming Long March of Lawyers on 16th March, 2009. This will have major implications on the political scenario of the country. What you guys think about it?
ISLAMABAD: The three-member Bench of Supreme Court has disposed off Sharif brothers’ electoral eligibility case by declaring them ineligible for contesting elections in its two-line short order announced here.
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Sheikh Hasina Wajed’s Awami League Wins Bangladesh Elections
At this moment the party is leading by a huge margin of 129 seats as against 14 seats won by Bangladesh Nationalist Party. It is just a matter of time before Awami League, Sheikh Hasina Wajed’s Party win these elections.Â
DHAKA: The Awami League party of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed leads in Bangladesh elections by a landslide margin, local private television stations reported early Tuesday.
The privately owned TV network said the Awami League had won 129 seats compared to 14 won by its rival the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).
The winner needs a simple majority of 151 seats to govern.
DHAKA: A ‘grand alliance’ headed by Bangladesh’s former prime minister Sheikh Hasina has won a majority of seats in parliament, according to unofficial results from Monday’s vote, election officials said.
The unofficial figures showed Hasina’s alliance had taken more than 201 seats in the 300-seat parliament. - Reuters Rauf Klasra adds: Hasina Wajid is said to be inching close to recapture power in Dhaka after seven years as initial results revealed that the eight-party grand alliance she is leading was finally heading towards an electoral victory against the BNP of Begum Khalida Zia.
Turnout was the heaviest since Bangla DeshÃs creation in 1971 as the youth went to vote to make a new history amid turmoil and economic mess in the country. Over 16 million young voters, who were supposed to vote for the first time, gave a new dimension to the election.
The initial survey of independent groups of international repute turned out to be of no help to Khalida Zia whose party was earlier being given an edge over her rival Hasina WajidÃs Awami League.
Khalida Zia’s alliance with the Jamaat-e-Islami is said to have proved a disastrous decision for her party whose candidates were found trailing behind the candidates of the grand alliance in at least 200 constituencies out of a total of 299.
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