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By: Nayyar Afaq
(Nayyar Afaq is a prominent student of the physics department at the Quaid-e-Azam University in Islamabad. Afaq has written a beautiful, classic poem dedicated to his political role model.)
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Have you ever studied Darwin’s “theory of Evolution”? For me, to some extent, it’s equally applicable to the international relations and all the conflicts. [...]

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 [...]

Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf Tuesday said he was not going to leave Pakistan after resignation.
Local TV channel Express News quoted Musharraf as saying that he resigned for the betterment of the country and he would not accept defeat.
Musharraf said he loved his country and would not leave Pakistan.
Musharraf [...]

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 [...]

President Pervez Musharraf has vacated Aiwan-e-Sadr after stepping down from the office of President.
He was accorded a ‘guard of honour’ before leaving the President’s House.
Before departing, the former president met with many important figures including the Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Parvez Kiyani and Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Tanvir Mehmood Ahmed.
Chairman Senate, [...]

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 [...]

Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) opening at the new business week today showed a great deal of resilience and dynamism, which saw the index during the trading jiffy shot up by 250 points breaching 10,000 psychological barriers.
Market pundits told that the investors unlike the media disinformation dins reacted positively to the reported President Musharraf vows not [...]

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 : 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
The soul of our country needs to be awakened … When leaders act contrary to conscience, we must act contrary to leaders.” - Veterans Fast [...]

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 [...]

By: Editor@Pak1stanfirst.com
We are receiving news from all over Pakistan which are not staisfactory at all. We are not going to provide our analysis this time just the news we are receiving from our sources.
Chief of Army staff Summons Core Commanders to GHQ, Rawalpindi:
An out of routine core commanders conference is called by the Chief of [...]