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By Fatima Rizvi
Mrs. Rizvi is a Pakistani commentator based in Sehwan Sharif, Sindh.

Everyone in Washington and New Delhi mentions ISI when talking about terrorism. Really? What about the Israeli Mossad, the Indian RAW, and the American CIA? Who had links with Al-Qaeda all along? Certainly not the ISI. The fact is that ISI never had [...]

Mr. Gulzar is a Pakistani college student based in Lahore studying LLB (Hons.).

As Musharraf was addressing the nation he must have regretted the wise suggestions that he had discarded, the incompetent politicians he had befriended and the blind trust he had put on a superpower whose leaders first labeled him ‘indispensable’ but following their [...]

By : Nayyar Afaq
Have you ever visited interior Sindh? If not, you are missing something remarkably great. It’s not an ordinary place; instead it’s the germ pool of the plasmodium of Democracy. No matter, if people there have no penny in pocket, doesn’t care if they have nothing to fill their bellies…….salute them…….they are ‘jiyalaas’-the [...]

By Kamran Haider
(Additional reporting by Koh Gui Qing in Karachi)
Published by: Reuters.com
A day after President Pervez Musharraf quit, leaders of Pakistan’s fractious coalition government squabbled over the judiciary on Tuesday and a bomb killed 25 people, underscoring the challenges facing the nation.
Musharraf, the former army chief and key ally of the United States in its [...]

This editorial is published by Arab News, a Saudi News Paper and The Middle East’s Leading English Language Daily.
IN deciding to resign as president of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf has done the honorable thing. He has chosen the path of self-sacrifice and fallen on his sword rather than prolong the country’s crisis over his position as [...]

By AHMED QURAISHI

President Karzai of Afghanistan has violated a basic undeclared code of honor that all Pashtun, in Pakistan and Afghanistan, live by, indeed all Pakistanis and Afghans do: Loyalty to your friend, especially one who helped you when you were desperate. Karzai lived on monthly Pakistan government stipend in Quetta. He became [...]

By ZAID HAMID
This column is extracted from a situation report released by BRASSTACKS, a security and defense analysis think tank based in Islamabad. Mr. Zaid Hamid is its Founding Consultant.

It was President Musharraf who was most annoyed over PPP decision to weaken ISI. It was after this disagreement with the U.S. that it was [...]

By Laila Sohail
Laila is a young Pakistani woman.

Musharraf’s biggest mistake is that he tried to be a democratic leader while he could have easily been an authoritative one. What was required perhaps was that he ruled this country like a true dictator, changing the political system and snubbing all opposition. He joined a political party [...]

By Sarmad Gilani
Mr. Gilani is a Pakistani commentator.
In Beijing, world celebrates human achievement while in Islamabad we are stuck with politics

I wish our people and our leaders would understand that having political differences should not stand in the way of appreciating progress

Thanks to President Musharraf export revenue more [...]

In order for the impeachment move against President Pervez Musharraf to succeed, it is necessary for the government to have the support of 295 members in a combined House of 442. The National Assembly has a total of 342 members and the Senate 100 members.
Eight clauses of Article 47 of the Constitution relate to the [...]

By SHIREEN MAZARI
The writer is a defense analyst.
Rehman Malik’s private security firm has close ties to the British intelligence. Zardari’s government has cut funding for our nuclear and missile research and recruitment, which means bright young Pakistanis can’t be hired anymore. Pakistanis should know that this elected government is surrendering on our nuclear program, is surrendering [...]

By AHMED QURAISHI
he Bush administration is playing a dangerous game by encouraging the elected government in Pakistan to pick an unnecessary confrontation with the country’s powerful military. And by being willing to play along, the government of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani is failing the first test of any government: to passionately defend Pakistan’s interest [...]

By Fasi Zaka:
Mr. Fasi Zaka is a Rhodes Scholar and Professor and Old Edwardian. He is the host of News, Views and Confused. This terse verses was printed in  The News and goes  very fine with imagery below.

The leader of the PML-N tries his hand at penning poetry once again by explaining his plans for [...]