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Posted by admin in Looters and Scam Artists on January 18th, 2013
A motley crew is a cliché for a roughly organized assembly of characters. Typical examples of motley crews arepirates, Western posses, rag-tag mercenary bands and freedom fighters. They may align with, be (as a group), or include either the protagonist or the antagonist of the story. Dictionary.com defines a motley crew as ‘a gathered group of people of various backgrounds, appearance, character’, etc.
Motley crews are, by definition, non-uniform and undisciplined as a group. They are characterised by containingcharacters of conflicting personality, varying backgrounds, and, usually to the benefit of the group, a wide array of methods for overcoming adversity. Traditionally, a motley crew who in the course of a story comes into conflict with an organised, uniform group of characters, will prevail. This is generally achieved through the narrative utilising the various specialties, traits and other personal advantages of each member to counterbalance the (often sole) speciality of a formal group of adversaries.
Leaders of opposition parties address a joint press conference in Lahore. PHOTO: ONLINE
Posted by admin in Pakistan-A Nation of Hope on January 16th, 2013
LETTER TO EDITOR
January 15th,2013
PM’s Arrest
It is customary all over the world for the honourable ministers to resign even on an ordinary allegation of moral turpitude to allow fair and uninfluenced investigations against them. But, here the ‘honourable’ coteries of our ‘honorable’ PM are trying their best to find some kinds of 
and explanations for him to retain the ministership!
What different standards of honour and honourability?!
Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)
30 Westridge 1
Rawalpindi 46000
Pakistan
E.mail: jafri@rifiela.com
Posted by admin in Pakistan-A Nation of Hope on January 16th, 2013
Nuclear Fuel Memos Expose Wary Dance With Pakistan
….. “Kayani will want to hear that the United States has turned the page on past ISI operations,” it said. General Kayani was probably referring to the peace accords with the Taliban from 2004 to 2007 that resulted in the strengthening of the militants.
If the general seems confidently in charge, the cables portray Mr. Zardari as a man not fully aware of his weakness.
At one point he said he would not object if Abdul Qadeer Khan, revered in Pakistan as the father of its nuclear weapons program, were interviewed by the International Atomic Energy Agency but tacitly acknowledged that he was powerless to make that happen.
Mr. Zardari, who spent 11 years in prison on ultimately unproved corruption charges, feared for his position and possibly — the wording is ambiguous — his life: the cables reveal that Vice President Biden told Prime Minister Gordon Brownof Britain in March 2009 that Mr. Zardari had told him that the “ISI director and Kayani will take me out.”
His suspicions were not groundless. In March 2009, a period of political turmoil, General Kayani told the ambassador that he “might, however reluctantly,” pressure Mr. Zardari to resign and, the cable added, presumably leave Pakistan. He mentioned the leader of a third political party, Asfandyar Wali Khan, as a possible replacement.
“Kayani made it clear regardless how much he disliked Zardari he distrusted Nawaz even more,” the ambassador wrote, a reference to Nawaz Sharif, a former prime minister.
By 2010, after many sessions with Mr. Zardari, Ms. Patterson had revised the guarded optimism that characterized her early cables about Mr. Zardari.
“Pakistan’s civilian government remains weak, ineffectual and corrupt,” she wrote on Feb. 22, 2010, the eve of a visit by the F.B.I. director, Robert S. Mueller III. “Domestic politics is dominated by uncertainty about the fate of President Zardari.”
That assessment holds more than eight months later, even as Mr. Obama in October extended an invitation to the Mr. Zardari leader to visit the White House next year, as the leader of a nation that holds a key to peace in Afghanistan but appears too divided and mistrustful to turn it for the Americans.
Posted by admin in Pakistan-A Nation of Hope on January 15th, 2013
ALLAHU AKBAR-PAKISTANIS REJOICE THANK ALLAH A MILLION TIMES
Pakistan top court orders CROOK PM PERVEZ ASHRAF arrested |
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Supreme Court issues arrest order in case related to rental power agreements when PM Ashraf was a federal minister.
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MASTER CROOK RAJA “RENTAL POWER CHEAT
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The Pakistani Supreme Court has ordered the arrest of Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf in connection with a corruption case. The court ordered the arrest of PM Ashraf on Tuesday morning, in relation to a case relating to contracts for the purchase of rental power plants by the federal government when Ashraf was the federal minister for water and power. The Supreme Court ordered the arrest of 16 people, including the prime minister, and directed authorities to present Ashraf in court on Wednesday, local media reported. “[Raja Pervez Ashraf] was the power and electricity minister and during that time he is said to have embezzled millions of dollars, the case was pending at the Supreme Court and the court therefore decided that the PM should be arrested immediately, because he is found guilty of complicity in embezzlements of large amounts of money,” reported Al Jazeera’s Kamal Hyder in Islamabad. The move has come as Tahir-ul-Qadri, a populist cleric, demanded the resignation of the government in protests attended by thousands of followers in the heart of the capital Islamabad. |
Posted by admin in Our Heroes on January 15th, 2013
One evening in Karachi, in the early 1960s, Ardeshir Cowasjee and his wife, Nancy, raced to pick up a friend whose husband had kicked her out of the house.
The next day the general summoned the errant husband and gave him an ultimatum: take back your wife or lose your cabinet post. It is unlikely that the proud Zulfikar Ali Bhutto ever forgot this reprimand. Years later, as the country’s prime minister, Bhutto appeared to respond by nationalising Cowasjee’s shipping business. Cowasjee, who died last month at age 86, was the ultimate insider-outsider, an irreverent and caustic columnist whose status and education afforded him opportunities few could dream of, but whose faith — Zoroastrianism — and belief in a pluralistic Pakistan made him a welcome outlier in an ever-radicalising country.
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