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[14 Mar 2003 | Comments Off | Rehana Hakim]

The arrest in Rawalpindi of a key Al-Qaeda operative, Khalid Mohammed Shaikh, reportedly from the house of a Jamaat-i-Islami member’s residence, has opened up a Pandora’s box for the Pakistan government.

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[6 Mar 2003 | Comments Off | Karamatullah K. Ghori]
Army Takes All

Unlike the Turkish and Algerian armies, which have kept their involvement in their countries’ affairs within well-defined parameters, the Pakistan army has infiltrated every aspect of life in the country.

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[5 Mar 2003 | Comments Off | Yusuf Agha]

A primer for Muslim rulers: How to Make America Love You

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[11 Feb 2003 | Comments Off | Rehana Hakim]

As the American juggernaut moves closer to yet another war, there are fears of a clear and present danger that Pakistan might be next on the US hit-list.

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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.