Hindustan Times
My friends in Pakistan tell me that careers of two key figures are at stake in their country: President Asif Ali Zardari and Army Chief Ashfaq Pervez Kayani. The latter’s future will be determined by the outcome of the South Waziristan operation and the former’s on the view Parliament and the judiciary take on the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO). Read more
(4 votes, average: 5 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Vinod Sharma on Monday, October 26, 2009 at 6:38 pm
Filed under Uncategorized · Tagged Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, Asif Ali Zardari, Benazir Bhutto., judiciary, Kerry-Lugar law, Pakistan, Parliament, Sharm-el-Sheikh
Is Baitullah Mehsud’s a case of a dead man telling no tales? Could well be if he’s really no more. The haze around what happened at Zangarha, where the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan chief was reportedly blown up in a US drone attack, only shows that getting at the truth is always a big challenge in Pakistan where intelligence organizations are a law unto themselves. Read more
(5 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Vinod Sharma on Monday, August 10, 2009 at 8:04 pm
Filed under Uncategorized · Tagged Baitullah Mehsud, Benazir Bhutto’s assassination, Kissa Khawani Bazaar, Mallika-e-Tarannum Noorjehan, Tehrik-e-Taliban, US drone attack, Zia-ul-Haq
So, it was the Political class that was divided, unsure and circumspect. The people of India were one in what they wanted out of Elections 2009. Little surprise then that even the Congress’s poll managers, from Sonia Gandhi downwards, received the outcome with disbelief. Read more
(4 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Vinod Sharma on Monday, May 18, 2009 at 7:37 pm
Filed under Uncategorized · Tagged congress, elections, Rahul Gandhi
Let’s talk this week about India and its awesome festival of democracy. For nearly a month now, airwaves on the Attari side of Indo-Pak border have been clogged with averments, claims and individual assertions by a Party A or a Coalition B of being fairer than its rivals. The UPA told us as to why it must be re-elected, the NDA dwelt on the imperative of change and the Left-inspired Third Front drove home its importance in a sudden death play-off. Certain pre-conditions and demands on which some bit—and better— players predicated their post-poll loyalties seemed outlandish. I read between the lines and squeezed some political meaning out of them. Here it goes… Read more
(2 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Vinod Sharma on Monday, May 11, 2009 at 8:33 pm
Filed under Uncategorized · Tagged Advani, elections, handshake, india, Ludhiana, NDA, Nitish Kumar, politics
