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:: Opinion : C. Uday Bhaskar |
Pakistan to get a new Prime Minister: challenges of transition
Pakistan's long awaited tryst with truly participatory democracy has finally begun - but the challenges ahead are daunting. President General Pervez Musharraf has called for the convening of the newly elected National Assembly on Monday (March 24) and the Zardari led PPP, the single largest party in the just elected legislature has finally ended the suspense of who will be the interim Prime Minister of Pakistan. The former Speaker Yusuf Raza Gillani has been nominated to head the government over the other three PPP contenders, Makhdoom Amin Fahim, Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar, and Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi.
Chinese lessons for India's Defence Budgeting
China is relating its military capability in relation to the USA, Japan and Russia and this is a logical policy initiative for a nation that has a clear strategic vision of the next 50 years. India does not exude the same degree of determination.
Pakistani retired military officers embark on a mea culpa:
Musharraf on the ropes
In an extraordinary development, unprecedented in the annals of Pakistan's troubled history, almost a hundred retired senior military officers including former Chiefs of Staff met on Thursday (Jan 31) in Islamabad and denounced Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf - till recently the Chief of Army Staff - and described him as the "main obstacle to democracy" in the run-up to the February 18 national elections.
Post Benazir Pakistan faces multiple challenges
Sunday, January 6th marks ten days since the tragic assassination of Benazir Bhutto - the deeply flawed yet highly charismatic - former Prime Minister of Pakistan and her grief stricken country now faces multiple challenges even as Scotland Yard detectives from UK sift through the carnage that accompanied her death in Rawalpindi on December 27th.
Musharraf lifts emergency: more cosmetic than substantive
On Saturday, December 15th, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, now a retired General, dramatically announced the lifting of emergency rule imposed by him on November 3rd...
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