Category archives for: Pakistan

Bhutto’s legacy: President Zardari?

Bhutto’s legacy: President Zardari?

Asif Ali Zardari, husband to the late Benazir Bhutto, looks likely to be elected President of Pakistan when the Pakistan Parliament votes on September 6.
Zardari became leader of the PPP upon Bhutto’s assassination last December, and was yesterday nominated as his party’s candidate for the presidency. He announced that he had accepted the nomination today.
Zardari’s [...]

Musharraf resigns

Musharraf resigns

Pervez Musharraf, the precariously US-backed President of Pakistan, resigned yesterday, just hours before the National Assembly was due to decide whether or not to impeach him.
Musharraf stole power from then-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in a military coup in 1999, then went on to succeed Muhammad Rafiq Tarar as President of the nuclear state.
He was re-elected [...]

Are Musharraf’s days numbered?

Are Musharraf’s days numbered?

The main Party backing the contoversial President of Pakistan, the PML-Q, has conceded defeat in yesterday’s elections.
What’s more, according to the BBC, is that if the late Benazir Bhutto’s Party, the PPP, and Nawaz Sharif’s Party, the PML-N, form a two-thirds coalition, then they could impeach President Musharraf and bring about a genuine democracy in [...]

2008 on the ACPO Network

2008 on the ACPO Network

The focus of the ACPO Network (by which I mean my personal focus, and thus the focus of all the websites I run within the ACPO Network) will change slightly in 2008.
Don’t worry, I will still bring you high-class posting on a regular basis, commentary from both a right-wing and a Conservative, yet Christian, perspective. [...]

This may only be a setback, but it was close to defeat

This may only be a setback, but it was close to defeat

I had just finished watching the Spooks DVD I had been given for Christmas – the Series 5 episode in which Christian extremists declare war on Islam (a blatant propaganda tool by the BBC, in which they attempt throughout the series to “dumb down” Islamic militancy by virtue of the fact that, in all ten [...]

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