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Memogate

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Name: Memogate

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Pakistan Muslim League (N)

The PML-N reconciliatory stance

Is the transformation genuine?Throughout the1990s the PPP and PML-N were involved in a no-holds-barred slugfest that helped the establishment to prematurely remove them from power twice apiece. After every election the routine was blaming the victor of ... [Published Pakistan Today - May 15 2013]

Entities: Pakistan Muslim League (N), Imran Khan, Memogate, Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Ambassador Sherry Rehman resigns

ISLAMABAD, May 14: Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States, Sherry Rehman, has resigned following PPP’s defeat in general elections.Ms Rehman who played a crucial role in normalising relations with the US after tense events of 2011-12 tendered her ... [Published DAWN Group - May 15 2013]

Entities: Sherry Rehman, Resignation, Pakistan, Memogate, Capital Hill Plc

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Pakistan People's Party

Manzoor Wattoo resigns from PPP post

LAHORE: Mian Manzoor Ahmed Wattoo, the president of Pakistan Peoples’ Party’s (PPP) central Punjab chapter submitted a letter of resignation to Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, accepting failure in delivering his duties, reported Express News on Tuesday.In the ... [Published The Express Tribune - May 14 2013]

Entities: Pakistan People's Party, Resignation, Sherry Rehman

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Sherry Rehman

Sherry Rehman resigns as Ambassador to US

Sherry Rehman resigned as the Pakistani Ambassador to the United States on Tuesday, reported Express News .Rehman has submitted her resignation to caretaker Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso.Rehman, a former journalist, was information minister for ... [Published The Express Tribune - May 14 2013]

Entities: Sherry Rehman, Resignation, Memogate, Husain Haqqani

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

You voted and you won!

Dear Pakistan, When you walked into the polling booth, you didn’t vote for an individual party or a candidate; you voted for Pakistan. Congratulations on winning! This was one of the bloodiest electoral contests in memory, yet you persisted.The past ... [Published The Express Tribune - May 13 2013]

Entities: Blasphemy, Pakistan, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, Memogate

First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 1 reports

Time to Speak out

It makes one’s heart bleed to see a brave soldier, who always led from the front and put his life on the line so many times to defend his country, being bullied and humiliated by blood-thirsty black-coated blackguards with a lynch-mob mentality, most ... [Published Pakistan Link - May 03 2013]

Entities: Pakistan Army, Faiz Ali, Khemkaran, Memogate

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 1 reports

Taliban

Without a will, there’s no way

In a war of attrition, the militants are calling the shotsThe ongoing terrorism in the north western region carved up in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and federally administrated tribal region is an overstretching of what has been going on in the ... [Published Pakistan Today - May 02 2013]

Entities: Peshawar, Taliban, Military/Armed Forces

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

The curse of perception

How perception trumps facts at any given timeSometimes perception is almost more important than the reality. This is exactly the case in Pakistan’s political minefield. Righteousness is tearing apart our country and it does not seem to matter what the ... [Published Pakistan Today - May 01 2013]

Entities: Pakistan, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Elections

First reported Apr 21 2013 - Updated Apr 21 2013 - 1 reports

Pak-US relationship

This refers to Ikram Sehgal’s article, ‘Why break the relationship?’ (The News, April 18). It seems that the retired army major and successful businessman has developed a hypothesis himself and tried to construct his own argument against that hypothesis. ... [Published The News International - Apr 21 2013]

Entities: Husain Haqqani, Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, Ikram Sehgal, hypothesis

First reported Apr 19 2013 - Updated Apr 19 2013 - 1 reports

Sour grapes or an end foretold?

As a bag-carrier of the N or Nawaz League, a role forced upon me by Chakwal necessity, I experienced in full measure three things: mediocrity, self-righteousness (amazing amounts of it) and a level of sycophancy on the part of senior N leaders enough ... [Published The News International - Apr 19 2013]

Entities: Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, Asghar Khan, Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif, Memogate, Elections

First reported Apr 18 2013 - Updated Apr 18 2013 - 1 reports

Left in the lurch

The state is looking the other wayThe Awami National Party (ANP) campaign for the upcoming elections is going along the swaggering video statements and escalated bomb attacks by Taliban and nonchalant responses by the other political parties especially ... [Published Pakistan Today - Apr 18 2013]

Entities: Awami National Party, Taliban, Military/Armed Forces, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan

First reported Apr 12 2013 - Updated Apr 12 2013 - 1 reports

Litmus test

There are times when youthful emotionalism tends to take the better of politicians. Who can forget Benazir Bhutto's epoch making return from exile in 1986 amidst an ocean of people who turned up to greet her (thankfully, the much abused word of 'tsunami' ... [Published The Friday Times - Apr 12 2013]

Entities: Pakistan Muslim League (N), Memogate, Religion, Ahsan Iqbal

Quotes

...Indeed, in October 2012, Imran Khan claimed that the Taliban were fighting a 'holy war' justified by Islam in neighbouring Afghanistan: "It is very clear that whoever is fighting for their freedom is fighting a jihad… The people who are fighting in Afghanistan against the foreign occupation are fighting a jihad." The PPP’s approach towards TTP and its affiliates is comparably ‘soft’...

Misplaced Optimism [Published Outlook India - May 15 2013]

...Returning Officers have been allowed to reject his candidature on the basis of allegations made by men on the street, ignoring the universal law: "a man is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law" , while loan defaulters, tax evaders and corrupt politicians, including a former prime minister whose arrest was ordered by the SC and happily ignored...

Time to Speak out [Published Pakistan Link - May 03 2013]

...where a self-styled Sheikhul Islam, a day after his farce of a million march in January, utters a similar line but directed at the parliament: "We could have torched the parliament building if we wanted but we didn't" . It was shocking

Litmus test [Published The Friday Times - Apr 12 2013]

Islamabad, March 11 - Intelligence gathering and counter-terrorism are messy jobs and it will have to be seen "how clean the mess can be kept by the new ISI spymaster" , a Pakistani daily said Sunday

Pakistani daily sizes up new ISI chief [Published Topnews.in - Mar 11 2012]

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Pakistans Hard Right Turn [Published Pakistan Link - May 17 2013]
Nawaz Sharif, 3.0 [Published Foreign Affairs - May 16 2013]
Primer for the prime minister [Published The News International - May 16 2013]
The PML-N reconciliatory stance [Published Pakistan Today - May 15 2013]
Ambassador Sherry Rehman resigns [Published DAWN Group - May 15 2013]
Misplaced Optimism [Published Outlook India - May 15 2013]
Manzoor Wattoo resigns from PPP post [Published The Express Tribune - May 14 2013]
Sherry Rehman resigns as Ambassador to US [Published The Express Tribune - May 14 2013]
Pakistan: Misplaced Optimism – Analysis [Published Eurasia Review - May 13 2013]
You voted and you won! [Published The Express Tribune - May 13 2013]
COMMENT : Elections 2013: Pakistans hard right ... [Published Daily Times - May 08 2013]
Time to Speak out [Published Pakistan Link - May 03 2013]
Without a will, there’s no way [Published Pakistan Today - May 02 2013]
The curse of perception [Published Pakistan Today - May 01 2013]
Pak-US relationship [Published The News International - Apr 21 2013]
Sour grapes or an end foretold? [Published The News International - Apr 19 2013]
Left in the lurch [Published Pakistan Today - Apr 18 2013]
Litmus test [Published The Friday Times - Apr 12 2013]
Former Envoy: Pakistan Too Dangerous to Return [Published WSJ.com: India Real Time - Jan 29 2013]
Malala makes it to global list [Published Calcutta Telegraph - Nov 28 2012]
Pakistani daily sizes up new ISI chief [Published Topnews.in - Mar 11 2012]
Pakistan-US relations in a trough, but only for... [Published Topnews.in - Feb 03 2012]
Pak Army corps commanders likely to meet in Raw... [Published Topnews.in - Jan 11 2012]

Blogs

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Former Envoy: Pakistan Too Dangerous to Return [Published WSJ.com: India Real Time - Jan 29 2013] Husain Haqqani, the former Pakistani ambassador to the U.S., has declined to return to Pakistan to testify before the Supreme Court in the so-called “Memogate” affair, claiming that the government is unable to offer him adequate protection. ...