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[12 Jan 2003 | Comments Off | Rehana Hakim]

It is that time of the year again – time to ring out the old and ring in the new. Time to make fresh beginnings and chart new courses.

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[12 Dec 2002 | Comments Off | Rehana Hakim]

It could only happen in Pakistan. A PML(Q) contender for the Sindh Chief Minister’s post asks for postponement of the Sindh Assembly because he does not have the requisite votes to make it to the top slot.

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[10 Nov 2002 | Comments Off | Rehana Hakim]

The unprecedented victory of the MMA in the October 2002 elections has set off alarm bells in cross sections of Pakistani society.

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[10 Oct 2002 | Comments Off | Rehana Hakim]

All it took was the concept of free and fair elections for General Musharraf’s avowed agenda of bringing in a clean system of governance and eliminating extremism to fall victim to political expediency.

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[10 Sep 2002 | Comments Off | Rehana Hakim]

Asked what he regretted as being the low point in his three-year tenure as head of state in the BBC programme, Question Time Pakistan, General Musharraf disarmed the audience with his answer: it was the referendum, he said.

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[10 Aug 2002 | Comments Off | Rehana Hakim]

The frenetic manner in which the Musharraf government has been adding to, and subtracting from, its two constitutional packages has given rise to increasing suspicion about the fairness of the entire electoral exercise.

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[10 Jul 2002 | Comments Off | Rehana Hakim]

The disillusionment with the general is total. Following the controversial referendum, the President’s office has now come up with a constitutional package to beat all previous packages.

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[12 Jun 2002 | Comments Off | Rehana Hakim]

A barber in Srinagar tells correspondent Mark Tully in a BBC programme on Kashmir, ‘Paradise Lost,’ that the Kashmiris want to have no part of either India or Pakistan.

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[11 May 2002 | Comments Off | Rehana Hakim]

General Ayub polled 97.7 per cent votes in his referendum. General Zia-ul-Haq polled an equal number. So if General Musharraf paralleled the record set by his erstwhile comrades, it should come as no surprise.

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[14 Apr 2002 | Comments Off | Rehana Hakim]

Why is General Musharraf so miffed about the parallels that are being drawn between him and his erstwhile comrades-in-arms, specifically General Zia-ul-Haq?