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		<title>The Fall of Musharraf</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
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The  Fall of Musharraf
Rasul  Bakhsh Rais
President Pervez Musharraf has departed,  having resigned to escape the humiliation of impeachment. Yet another painful  chapter of Pakistan’s political history has been closed, ending the political  uncertainty the country has been facing for the past five  months.
Why  painful? It may be considered a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=circusmaxima.wordpress.com&blog=4040981&post=94&subd=circusmaxima&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan Politics on the Brink Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
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Pakistan  Politics on the Brink Again:
By  Shuja Nawaz
 
August  19th, 2008
As  Pakistan lurches into another paroxysm of power politics with the threatened  impeachment and expected resignation of President Pervez Musharraf, the post-Musharraf picture is not as clear or rosy as the authors of  this move may want it to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=circusmaxima.wordpress.com&blog=4040981&post=83&subd=circusmaxima&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome To CIA-Sponsored Democracy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
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Welcome  To CIA-Sponsored Democracy
 
President  Musharraf leaves office alone, besieged and abandoned.  He is not leaving the country into strong hands. In fact, in the hands of the  most the corrupt, unscrupulous and dangerous criminals this country ever  produced. The regime-change game which CIA had initiated about one year ago [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=circusmaxima.wordpress.com&blog=4040981&post=81&subd=circusmaxima&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome To PPP Democracy – Jiyala Jamhuriyat!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 07:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome To PPP Democracy – Jiyala Jamhuriyat!
 
By COL. RIAZ JAFRI (RETD.)
Monday, 23 June 2008.

 
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan—Liaqat Bagh to be renamed Benazir Bhutto Bagh, Murree Road to be renamed Benazir Bhutto Road, 27 December to be declared official holiday after Benazir Bhutto’s death anniversary, Lahore to be turned into Larkana, Presidency to be taken over [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=circusmaxima.wordpress.com&blog=4040981&post=5&subd=circusmaxima&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Political cartel active again in Pakistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:36:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shakir Mumtaz
April 23, 2008

Political Cartel Active Again in Pakistan.
The difference this time, however, is that it is under the guise of Democracy, borrowed from the West; historically tested, foolproof system of power and plunder, where the population becomes unwittingly sacrificial goat daydreaming of emancipation from all ills and miseries. The cartel has upgraded itself by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=circusmaxima.wordpress.com&blog=4040981&post=11&subd=circusmaxima&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Musharraf’s Ouster?  This Is What Really Happened Last Week</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
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What a shameful last three days we&#8217;ve had. The media fabricated the story of Musharraf’s departure in a plane to ‘a neighboring country.’ The sad thing is that the rest of the good media is going to suffer when our politicians lead us to the next military takeover. Friends of Pakistan used to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=circusmaxima.wordpress.com&blog=4040981&post=10&subd=circusmaxima&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan adrift without leader</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:42:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Pakistan remains in a leaderless drift four months after elections, Western diplomats and military officials have said, and Pakistani politicians and Afghan officials are increasingly worried that no one is really in charge.
The leadership vacuum is most stark in dealing with militants, Pakistani politicians and foreign diplomats have said, adding that the Pakistani government [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=circusmaxima.wordpress.com&blog=4040981&post=8&subd=circusmaxima&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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