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The Islamabad Spring

By Hakim Hazik 

 

The spring of 2007 led to a long hot summer. It led to the conflagration that left the remaining credibility and legitimacy of the establishment a smoking hulk. Was it just Pervez Musharraf’s bad luck that he ran into a recalcitrant and peevish judge, prone to unpredictable tantrums? Was it just unfortunate that the thugs of Islamabad police were caught on camera roughing up the Chief Justice, leading to the public outrage? Or was there something more fundamental that had changed to lead to this outcome?

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THE PARADIGM PERSISTS


Ladies and Gentlemen,
 
 ‘It is more fun to be right than compassionate. Compassion is not a popular virtue as religious people prefer to disapprove of others and tell them what is right with a righteous glow around them. It is difficult to dethrone yourself from the centre of your universe and place someone else there’ said Karen Armstrong during her recent visit to Pakistan. In an interview to TV One she said, ‘Working at compassion and application of your knowledge of God for the benefit of humanity is at the heart of all great religions including Islam. Mohammed [pbuh] was a towering spiritual genius of an immense order and a brilliant political thinker.  More...

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LOTA NAMA II

 

We saw success in the offing
When president started doffing
I counted on BB floor-crossing
And Mian Sahib boycotting
The illiterate came for voting
So much for ‘peoples’ mandate’

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Lota Nama

 Extraordinary Rendition

O brethren of earthenware

We are assembled here

To sit and ponder how and where

We are to take our future fare

We have been screwed by fate 

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Dead Man Walking

 

There was a story that if you give a razor blade to a non human primate, it would inflict fatal self harm. Our Great leader can accomplish the same with a microphone.   More...

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A DYNAMIC SOCIAL CONTRACT


 
Dear Countrymen,
 
‘There has been enough pain. It is time for reconciliation.’ wrote the former Prime Minister and further, ‘the real clash within and outside Islam is the battle between the past and the future. It is the resolution of this battle that will determine the direction not only of the relationship between Islam and the West but of international relations in this century. Without further delay, to break the chains and cycle of poverty, extremism, dictatorship and terrorism, we need to move on the path to true reconciliation.’
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The People Have Spoken

Transcultural Dialogues


    

Gen. (Retd.) Tinpot: Dot, Buddy stop licking Maulana’s face. I do apologise Maulana. I am not sure what has got into them since 18th of February. They have become very disobedient.  I think they have got fleas, or maybe they have been bitten by another bug. There are strange creatures everywhere. I saw Kashif Abbasi on the telly yesterday More...

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Get lost Chacha!

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Musharraf | Judiciary

Special interview of Aitezaz Ahsan

PART1


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Nawaz Sharif's Press Confrence

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Nawaz Sharif | Videos