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Special Report PML (Q, K, W, L, J, Z, F, M, P…)
Mohammad Ali Jinnah must be turning in his grave at the A to Z of Muslim League factions that are using his name and integrity for their political perpetuation — and what…
Special Report on PPP – by Amir Mateen (Special Report PPP—(Part V) Confused workers have nowhere to go, lost without identity)
ISLAMABAD: The PPP workers have never felt as dispirited and lost as they do today. The reasons are emotional, political and material. But the foremost is the issue of identity. The party…
Special Report on PPP – by Amir Mateen (Special Report-PPP IV Who’s who in the invisible govt of Zardari)
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari looks taller by readily giving away his powers through the 18th Amendment. But this may have been one of the smartest moves that he ever made. Beneath…
Special Report on PPP – by Amir Mateen (Special Report: PPP — Part-3 Baji Faryal now running PPP, emulating Benazir)
ISLAMABAD: The PPP, which survived the worst of three dictatorships, is ironically crumbling down in a democracy. Its leaders and workers withstood a lot over four decades: the hanging of its founder…
Special Report on PPP – by Amir Mateen (Special Report: PPP (Part-II) ‘Aik Zardari, sub par bhari’)
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari may have overly rushed in turning the Bhuttos’ PPP into a Zardari fiefdom. Nearly all of Benazir’s close associates and the party’s old guard have been replaced.…
Special Report on PPP – by Amir Mateen (Part-1 The cruel joke is on Benazir)
ISLAMABAD: Benazir Bhutto would not recognise her party if she were to see it today. It is no longer the Pakistan People’s Party that she inherited from her father and neither is…
The changing politics of Nawaz Sharif (Special Report PML-N-IV)
ISLAMABAD: The biggest PML-N plank is that it promises a better government in Islamabad than being run by the PPP. Nawaz Sharif believes that the PPP under Asif Zardari is going downhill…
The changing politics of Nawaz Sharif (Special Report-PML-N Part-III)
ISLAMABAD: With the media overly focused on the PPP, Nawaz Sharifís PML has been sneakily enjoying the best of both worlds — power in the Punjab and opposition in Islamabad. The about…
The changing politics of Nawaz Sharif (Don’t try deciphering Pir Nawaz Sahib-II)
ISLAMABAD: Nawaz Sharif in his role as the Quaid of the PML-N has placed himself a degree higher than mundane leadership. A deliberate aura has been created where he is presented almost…
The changing politics of Nawaz Sharif
ISLAMABAD: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif’s slip of the tongue about requesting the Taliban to spare the Punjab may have triggered graver concerns as to the inner thinking of the party supposedly…