Irfan Hussain, Cyril, Pundit, Big Z, Ansar, Shaheen

Irfan Hussain says that the extremists can be defeated if the madresahs are thoroughly reformed. Can Pakistanis afford to wait for that long? Can Pakistan survive until then? The madresahs have taken years to programme these suicidal nuts...it will more than one or two generations to brings things back to pre Zi(n)a days.

Cyril is writing about Azfar's 'indiscreation.' But it appears that Azfar's boss is on a warpath.

Pundit Hamid Mir quotes PM Gilani: "PM Gilani told me informally the other day: “I will not become another Farooq Leghari. I will stand by President Zardari under all circumstances.” The proof is in the pudding and we won't have to wait for long.

Undemocratic forces want to remove me: Zardari Thus Spaketh the Co Chairman of the invisible/handwritten will.

Ansar wants to play "fair" by digging more under water stuff.

Will the upright Pir Sahin of SC now take a suo moto action? Shaheen Sehbai: Some pieces of what happened were put together by the correspondent of The News in Islamabad, Mohammad Ahmad Noorani, who separately interviewed several people, including the two senior-most officials of Sindh, the chief secretary and the home secretary. According to Noorani, he had credible information that both these officials desperately sought the permission of the Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah and the Home Minister Zulfikar Mirza to use the available police and Rangers on the spot to shoot the arsonists and looters but both these PPP leaders kept on denying permission until the damage was done.