Pakistan elections: fingers crossed - MSNBC

Pakistan elections: fingers crossedMSNBC - 3 hours agoBy Carol Grisanti, NBC News Producer For those who think the election campaign is suspenseful in the United States, come visit Pakistan. …

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The Election Campaigns Hit the Screens

With Pakistan’s elections scheduled for next Monday, the political parties are in their final press for votes.  As noted earlier, Asif Ali Zardari is leading the People’s Party campaigning in Punjab.  The PPP will perform well in Sindh, outside of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) stronghold of Karachi.  The real battle has been and always […]

In Pakistan, Islam needs democracy

Waleed Ziad, an economic consultant and an associate at the Truman National Security Project, in the New York Times:
While it’s good news that secular moderates are expected to dominate Pakistan’s parliamentary elections on Monday, nobody here (in Karachi) thinks the voting will spell the end of militant extremism. Democratic leaders have a poor track record […]

Bhutto ghost dominates Pakistani elections

In The Guardian, UK, Decian Walsh reports from Faisalabad:
Shielded behind bulletproof glass and surrounded by armed police, the Pakistani opposition leader Asif Zardari told supporters yesterday that his assassinated wife, Benazir Bhutto, had come to him in a dream.
“She said ‘I am with you, and I am with the people,’” he said, drawing a roar […]

Answering Musharraf’s Orientalism

When Musharraf took fresh oath of office he said that he was aware of the democratic values but the west should not expect Pakistan to be ready for unshackled democracy when the west took centuries to eveolve them. Does any name come to your mind? Edward Said’s Orientalism. For those who are not acquainted with […]

Pakistan needs more than just an election

In Spectator, Stephen Schwartz writes that in this failing state, the ballot box is also a tinderbox.  Even if Monday’s elections do go ahead, Pakistan might well end up in a worse state than before: exporting terror, spawning confrontation and at war with itself 
 
The most important country in the world right now faces the most […]

Suicide Bombing Targets Secular Pashtun Party

A suicide bombing today targeted an Awami National Party (ANP) election rally in Charsadda, North-West Froniter Province. The ANP is a secular, Pashtun nationalist party that has had hostile relations with the central government in Pakistan. Today it can count the jihadis in their midst as enemies. Some analysts have anticipated the […]

Benazir and Keith Ryan: Cover up upon cover up

If you think there was any room for conscience in the actions of states, please try to rethink the things through. The establishments of all countries behave in same fashion. While the western leaders pay great lip service to the cause of democracy their hearts remain with the dictators. Take the example of Keith Ryan’s […]

President Musharraf’s meeting with Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak

“It was nothing more than a chance meeting and nothing was discussed there.”
January 29th, 2008 by Kashif Aziz President Pervez Musharraf met with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak twice during his recent tour of Europe . via Chowrangi
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Should Pakistan recognise Israel?

They say when a man gets desperate it starts showing in his actions. Musharraf’s recent tour to Europe and ‘accidentally’ meeting with an Israeli minister yet again is just another example of the attitude. International opinion about Musharraf is no more benign towards Musharraf so in order to prove that he is enlightened minded he […]