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Zardari fares poorly, Kayani more popular: poll

Kaira says survey based on presumptions

53 pc Pakistanis see India as biggest threat

Nawaz popularity rating 71pc
WASHINGTON: Only one in five Pakistanis view their president, Asif Ali Zardari, favourably while the country’s army chief gets a more positive rating, according to a new opinion poll released Thursday.

The US-based Pew Research Center said of about 2,000 adults interviewed in Pakistan in April, only 20 per cent saw Zardari positively, down from 64 per cent in a poll two years ago. The margin of error was plus or minus three percentage points. Read More »Zardari fares poorly, Kayani more popular: poll

Nawaz is mindless: Musharraf

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Dubai—Former President Pervez Musharraf has said that Nawaz Sharif is foolish and mindless and when he talks sense then he would respond.

Talking to media here, the former President said that he wants to return to the country and play his role in the country’s politics and take the country out of challenges it is facing today

He said that it is not the people who have failed but it is the government, which has failed miserably to control the situation.
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The poor subsidize the rich in Pakistan, says report

Average worth of Pak MPs is $900,000 but only a few pay income tax
ISLAMABAD: Much of Pakistan’s capital city looks like a rich Los Angeles suburb, says a report published in New York Times. Shiny sport utility vehicles purr down gated driveways. Elegant multistory homes are tended by servants. Laundry is never hung out to dry.

But behind the opulence lurks a troubling fact. Very few of these households pay income tax. That is mostly because the politicians who make the rules are also the country’s richest citizens, and are skilled at finding ways to exempt themselves.
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Musharraf plans return, looks to Army for security

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Attacks Nawaz, Zardari policies

By Rauf Klasra

LONDON: Former President General (retd) Pervez Musharraf finally kicked off his campaign to return to Pakistan as he launched an attack on Saturday from Dubai against his political rivals — Nawaz Sharif and Asif Zardari — and their poor governance and said the Army would provide him security on his return within coming months.

Musharraf said if the military was under any constraints not to provide him security, he would raise his own private security on his return to Pakistan in the coming months to face both Nawaz Sahrif and Asif Ali Zardari.
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Pakistan Politics: Which of our politicians has the ‘essential ten qualities’?

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 A politician or member of parliament is basically a representative of his countrymen and his own family. History has countless evidences where almost all the major changes to take place on our planet, whether good or bad, have come due to the acts of politicians.

According to Vicki Bourne, a former Australian senator, a good politician needs ten qualities. The first quality of a politician is that he must be humble and know that there is no positional power. The politician must be aware of how little power he has individually and that true power is only a product of collective action. Vicki said the second quality of a politician is that he must be nice to others and keep people on his side for he may need their support at any time.Read More »Pakistan Politics: Which of our politicians has the ‘essential ten qualities’?

A brand new state for Pakistan —Dr Mubashir Hasan

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The state, as we have it for the last 63 years, has manifestly failed to correct its gross asymmetry. Numerous repair jobs on it have not succeeded. Pakistan needs a brand new state. There has to be a transfer of power from the high and mighty to the low and humble

Describing Pakistan as a failed state is invalid and improper. The widespread corruption, lawlessness, killings, poverty and backwardness in our authoritative society only go to prove that what has failed is not Pakistan or its people but ‘the state’ in Pakistan. Article 7 of the constitution defines the ‘state’ as the federal government, parliament, a provincial government, a provincial assembly, and such local and other authorities in Pakistan as are by law empowered to impose any tax or cess.Read More »A brand new state for Pakistan —Dr Mubashir Hasan

All Pakistan Muslim League: no prospects

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AZIZ-UD-DIN AHMAD

With Musharraf’s All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) finally launched, Wikipedia will have to add another party to its list of 93 already in the country. The party was, in fact, already there on the Facebook with 212,929 admirers. Musharraf had become eligible to take part in politics after November 28, 2009. It was first let out that the party would start functioning in March. The delay in the announcement was presumably caused because none of Musharraf’s erstwhile political allies was willing to join the party, at least at this juncture.Read More »All Pakistan Muslim League: no prospects

Plotter of Benazir’s death dead, amid growing mystery

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Many conspirators have died in separate incidents

By Umar Cheema

ISLAMABAD: An important commander of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Ebad-ul-Rehman alias Farooq Chatan, wanted for allegedly coordinating assassination of Benazir Bhutto, is said to have been killed along with his brother Yousaf, in the first-ever drone strike in Khyber Agency two weeks ago.Read More »Plotter of Benazir’s death dead, amid growing mystery