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Power Cannot Be Carved Up On a Dictator’s Table: Zardari

By admin ⋅ January 26, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

KARACHI: Co-chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party and spouse of the former premier Ms Benazir Bhutto Asif Ali Zardari has said that his party was not looking for crumbs of power from a dictator’s table as power cannot be carved up on a dictator’s table.
In an interview with Outlook India’s Washington correspondent from the Bilawal […]

Poor find novel ways to cope with flour shortage

By admin ⋅ January 20, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

ISLAMABA: As the wheat crisis is deepening in the country with flour prices skyrocketing, the poor have resorted to novel ways to cope with the situation. “I daily go to the Dhoke Najo (nearby market) and get some dried bread, crush it and cook it with some daal (pulses)… believe me it’s delicious and very […]

Moin Akhtar on Politics in Pakistan

By admin ⋅ January 17, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

I was watching ARY and happened to hear this beautiful and funny poem in voice of Moin Akhtar in the program named Loose Talk. I was very amused and recorded it with an idea to share it with my readers. I have transcribed the poem in text and you can find the original audio in […]

Thursday Round-Up: National Reconciliation; Splitting the Taliban; Army Defends Atta; Aitzaz’s Back

By admin ⋅ January 17, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Pakistan continues along a mixed, though largely negative trajectory as the spate of urban suicide bombing continues and insurgents make bold moves in South Waziristan, while the army strengthens its control over Swat and leaders flinch toward national reconciliation. The army’s immediate workload increases, but Gen. Ashfaq Kayani takes clear steps to depoliticize the institution. […]

Suicide attacks attempt on country’s solidarity: Wattoo

By admin ⋅ January 15, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

OKARA: Former chief minister and PML (Q) leader Manzoor Ahmed Wattoo said that suicide attacks continuing in the country were an attempt to disintegrate the solidarity of Pakistan.
Talking to newsmen at his residence at Sadiwala here on Monday, he advised all patriot people that they should work remaining above the politics to cement and fortify […]

11 killed, over 40 wounded in Karachi blast

By admin ⋅ January 15, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

KARACHI: Eleven persons, including a child, have been killed and over 40 others wounded in a powerful bomb blast occurred here at Gul Ahmed crossing, Quaidabad on Monday. TPO Landhi Town, Azad Khan confirmed that explosives strapped to a motor cycle blew up, killing and injuring many while other report suggested that the bomb was […]

Beyond Bhutto: Pakistan Two Weeks After the Assassination

By admin ⋅ January 12, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Pakistan has moved forward in the two weeks since the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, but toward what exactly remains unclear. The country has displayed a capacity to sustain high-levels of violence, but with economic pressures and social divisions rising, one wonders what is the tipping point.
Musharraf Hangs in the Balance
Stuck in a gray zone, […]

Opinion: Pakistan after Bhutto

By admin ⋅ January 12, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

My opinion piece, issued by Project Syndicate, has been picked up by a number of publications, including Pakistan’s Daily Times, Lebanon’s Daily Star, Miami Herald, the Scotsman, the San Diego Union-Tribune, and The Guardian’s Comment is Free.
Pakistan after Bhutto
By Arif Rafiq
With the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan’s state of turmoil has reached […]

Dynamics of Change in Islamic Law (II): Iftaa, Ijtihad and Social Customs

By admin ⋅ January 10, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

The “content” of any medium blinds us to the character of the medium.
[Marshall McLuhan]
In 1913, Mawlana Ashraf Ali Thanawi gave his famous juridical response to a British court in India. The seeker was a claimant who wanted to re-establish conjugal rights with his wife but his in-laws refused to let her join on the […]
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