Baithak Desi May 07: Cyril Almeida, Lawyer's violence, Recipes to fix States, Zahoor
I am viewing P J Mir on ARY informing the arrivals and whereabouts of Sharif, Asif, Malik Zardari and company in London and then asking "why" the judges issue has not been solved yet. The Urdu phrase, somewhat out of context here jumps, "Allah re yeh maasoomi!"
Let me add this quickly, I am not singling out P J Mir. Almost every single "danishwar," host, broadcaster seen on the electronic media piles on and on endless speculations and views on the judges restoration issue.
I have seen this in print and the Iftikhar Chaudhry issue boils down to a casket. There is one casket and two contenders - which will it be buried with? Iftrikhar Chaudhry or NRO?
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Let’s step back for a second. Parliament isn’t embarking on an epic journey; it’s simply trying to avoid decapitation. And forget all the highfalutin rhetoric; Asif Zardari and Nawaz Sharif are no founding fathers, Musharraf is no de Gaulle and Iftikhar Chaudhry is no Justice Cornelius. None of this should be surprising, but the country’s collective memory seems to have failed yet again. To many, Musharraf is the devil incarnate, drunk on power and unable to let go. He probably is. But let’s give the devil his due: Musharraf’s bag of tricks puts politicians to shame. The soldier has navigated the political minefield in Pakistan with great skill. He pulled off a feat that left politicians openly fuming, but secretly envious: the benevolent dictator kept the public on his side for many a year even as he showed contempt for it by refusing to genuinely test his support at the ballot box. ‘Forgive us our trespasses’ By Cyril Almeida
Lawyers are supposed to be law-abiding and non-violent, but their movement has been increasingly showing signs of being violent and thus attracting violence from the quarters that it targets. Much of this violence has been explained away as “conspiracy”, but the fact is that the lawyers have come to a point where they must make a serious effort to prevent their movement from becoming discredited in the eyes of the civil society that supports them. Lawyers and violence
How do you fix a failed state? Is there a garage or workshop where you haul it in? Ashraf Ghani with Clare Lockhart writes about fixing failed states, some of which should be familiar to us.Let me add this quickly, I am not singling out P J Mir. Almost every single "danishwar," host, broadcaster seen on the electronic media piles on and on endless speculations and views on the judges restoration issue.
I have seen this in print and the Iftikhar Chaudhry issue boils down to a casket. There is one casket and two contenders - which will it be buried with? Iftrikhar Chaudhry or NRO?
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Let’s step back for a second. Parliament isn’t embarking on an epic journey; it’s simply trying to avoid decapitation. And forget all the highfalutin rhetoric; Asif Zardari and Nawaz Sharif are no founding fathers, Musharraf is no de Gaulle and Iftikhar Chaudhry is no Justice Cornelius. None of this should be surprising, but the country’s collective memory seems to have failed yet again. To many, Musharraf is the devil incarnate, drunk on power and unable to let go. He probably is. But let’s give the devil his due: Musharraf’s bag of tricks puts politicians to shame. The soldier has navigated the political minefield in Pakistan with great skill. He pulled off a feat that left politicians openly fuming, but secretly envious: the benevolent dictator kept the public on his side for many a year even as he showed contempt for it by refusing to genuinely test his support at the ballot box. ‘Forgive us our trespasses’ By Cyril Almeida
Lawyers are supposed to be law-abiding and non-violent, but their movement has been increasingly showing signs of being violent and thus attracting violence from the quarters that it targets. Much of this violence has been explained away as “conspiracy”, but the fact is that the lawyers have come to a point where they must make a serious effort to prevent their movement from becoming discredited in the eyes of the civil society that supports them. Lawyers and violence
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posted by temporal at 5/08/2008
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