http://micropakistan.org/blog Sat, 31 May 2008 07:02:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Pakistan: Can we change? The present author has in the past made his views clear on Pakistan’s broad model for success: the vision of Iqbal combined with the illustriousness of Jinnah. What is far less clear to all and sundry however, the present author included, is how exactly to go about ... http://micropakistan.org/blog/2008/05/31/pakistan-can-we-change-by-freddie/ I am posting a press note that was issued a couple of weeks ago against the proposed sale of Saudi-Pak Commercial Bank. This note claimed that the proposed sale would be in violation of Pakistani laws and the Constitution. It does a good job of detailing all the possible violations. ... http://micropakistan.org/blog/2008/04/15/proposed-sale-of-government-owned-saudi-pak-commercial-bank/ I've been living in Houston for some time, but I often return to Pakistan to visit my parents. In December, when I arrived in Karachi with my 3-year-old daughter, Minal, the city was spinning with more than the usual winter weddings, parties and reunions. President Musharraf had issued emergency rule ... http://micropakistan.org/blog/2008/04/03/karachis-winter-days-by-sehba-sarwar/ My Dear Countrymen, Assalaam-o-Alaikum! Today we - you & I - are, by the grace of Almighty God, making history. For the very first time a sitting government has been voted out and a new government voted in. For the very first time all political parties, but most significantly the losing ... http://micropakistan.org/blog/2008/03/22/an-electrifying-address-to-the-nation-by-president-pervez-musharraf-by-shaheryar-azhar/ Last  week I had the pleasure of attending a small dinner with Shaukat Aziz, the former Prime Minister.  In a wide-ranging  two hour conversation, he gave his thoughts and perspectives on a whole host of issues facing the country and offered some insights into the past eight years that I ... http://micropakistan.org/blog/2008/03/18/dinner-with-shaukat-aziz-by-nayyer-ali/ Justice delayed is justice denied WITH those words, 19th century British statesman William Gladstone coined a phrase that has echoed in political and legal discourse ever since. Indeed, he could have been speaking about Pakistan today. A miscarriage of justice took place in Islamabad exactly one year and one day ago. ... http://micropakistan.org/blog/2008/03/12/restoring-the-judges-by-ahmad-faruqui/ The lawyers' movement in Pakistan will go down in history as an effort by the legal profession to set the judiciary right and prevent military rulers from using the higher judiciary to supersede the Constitution and make themselves legal. The solidarity within the community was significant and it created some ... http://micropakistan.org/blog/2008/03/08/where-will-the-lawyers-lead-us-by-khaled-ahmed/ Pakistan's born-again democracy will fail. Musharraf will be proved right that Pakistan does, after all need 'unity of command'. The worst of the skeptics will say "Pakistan is a failing state with or without Military rule but more slowly with than without". Pakistan's elite that consists of majority of Army's ... http://micropakistan.org/blog/2008/02/24/can-you-hear-the-alarm-bells-over-the-trumpets-by-shaheryar-azhar/ By John M. Glionna KARACHI, PAKISTAN — Perched in the living room of his sprawling villa, security guards posted outside, Ardeshir Cowasjee is feeling a bit cantankerous about the future of volatile Pakistan.Another leader has been killed. He considers his president a pawn of the United States and ... http://micropakistan.org/blog/2008/02/15/article-on-cowasjee-pakistan-columnist-doesnt-know-the-meaning-of-fear-la-times/ The bomb explodes near Bhutto's vehicle following a political rally in Rawalpindi. The conclusions of the inquiry were outlined in a detailed report handed over to interim Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz by Detective Superintendent John MacBrayne, accompanied by a senior official from the British High Commission, during a ... http://micropakistan.org/blog/2008/02/08/scotland-yard-report-into-assassination-of-benazir-bhutto-released/