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Articles tagged with: General Pervez Musharraf

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[18 Aug 2010 | One Comment | Sara Kazi]
Degrees of Democracy

The fake degree scandal has shown politicians of all stripes to be champions of lying and cheating. Even the democratically elected PPP is using intimidation to hold onto power.

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[18 Nov 2009 | 6 Comments | Zahid Hussain]
General Sympathy: Aiding the Taliban

Several former army soldiers are either fighting in Afghanistan or training Taliban forces and formulating strategies to counter the war on terror.

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[30 Sep 2009 | No Comment | Amir Zia]
Interview: Nawab Khair Bakhsh Marri

Nawab Khair Bakhsh Marri is seen as the kingpin of the radical Baloch nationalist movement, which explicitly demands an independent Balochistan. Never one to mince words, he has this to say about the decades-old problems plaguing Balochistan: “We cannot live with the Punjabis. There is no room for compromise in my book. We have to get rid of them.”

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[13 Sep 2009 | No Comment | Nadir Hassan]
Weekly Briefing

Every Sunday, The Water Cooler will give a run down of the week’s oddest, funniest and most interesting stories from and about Pakistan.

News & Politics, Opinion, Viewpoint »

[5 Aug 2009 | 2 Comments | Anees Jillani]
A Landmark Judgement

For the first time in the country’s judicial history, the Supreme Court has ruled against an army general’s unconstitutional acts.

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[15 Oct 2008 | No Comment | Anees Jillani]
Chaos in the Capital

A disaster response plan could have prevented the situation from worsening at the site of the blast.

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[8 Sep 2008 | No Comment | Mahir Ali]
An Affair to Remember

Will Washington miss its most allied ally in the ‘war against terror’?

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[13 Apr 2008 | No Comment | Talat Hussain]
Hope and Hurdles

Pppp-1-apr08akistan today stands on the brink, and the coalition government of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gillani has to pull it back. And quickly.

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[12 Mar 2008 | No Comment | Zahid Hussain]
Down, But Not Out

There is no sign yet of an embattled President Musharraf going gently into the night despite the rout of his supporters, the PML-Q, in the national elections.

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[12 Mar 2008 | No Comment | Talat Hussain]
Reality Bites

Mistaken advice, predicated by wishful thinking, led Musharraf to believe the PML-Q would win the elections. The results have come as a rude awakening.