Comments on: Islamabad Tonight – 21 July 2009 http://pkpolitics.com/2009/07/21/islamabad-tonight-1-july-2009-2/ Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:31:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: ندیم ملک « ندیم ملک http://pkpolitics.com/2009/07/21/islamabad-tonight-1-july-2009-2/#comment-239700 ندیم ملک « ندیم ملک Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:41:03 +0000 http://pkpolitics.com/?p=10999#comment-239700 [...] Tonight » Islamabad Tonight – 21 July 2009 [21 Jul 2009 | 4 Comments | [...] [...] Tonight » Islamabad Tonight – 21 July 2009 [21 Jul 2009 | 4 Comments | [...]

]]> By: sadiqahmed http://pkpolitics.com/2009/07/21/islamabad-tonight-1-july-2009-2/#comment-237420 sadiqahmed Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:33:17 +0000 http://pkpolitics.com/?p=10999#comment-237420 Daughter of the West Tariq Ali Arranged marriages can be a messy business. Designed principally as a means of accumulating wealth, circumventing undesirable flirtations or transcending clandestine love affairs, they often don’t work. Where both parties are known to loathe each other, only a rash parent, desensitised by the thought of short-term gain, will continue with the process knowing full well that it will end in misery and possibly violence. That this is equally true in political life became clear in the recent attempt by Washington to tie Benazir Bhutto to Pervez Musharraf. The single, strong parent in this case was a desperate State Department – with John Negroponte as the ghoulish go-between and Gordon Brown as the blushing bridesmaid – fearful that if it did not push this through both parties might soon be too old for recycling. The bride was certainly in a hurry, the groom less so. Brokers from both sides engaged in lengthy negotiations on the size of the dowry. Her broker was and remains Rehman Malik, a former boss of Pakistan’s FIA, who has been investigated for corruption by the National Accountability Bureau and who served nearly a year in prison after Benazir’s fall, then became one of her business partners and is currently under investigation (with her) by a Spanish court looking into a company called Petroline FZC, which made questionable payments to Iraq under Saddam Hussein. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n24/ali_01_.html Daughter of the West
Tariq Ali
Arranged marriages can be a messy business. Designed principally as a means of accumulating wealth, circumventing undesirable flirtations or transcending clandestine love affairs, they often don’t work. Where both parties are known to loathe each other, only a rash parent, desensitised by the thought of short-term gain, will continue with the process knowing full well that it will end in misery and possibly violence. That this is equally true in political life became clear in the recent attempt by Washington to tie Benazir Bhutto to Pervez Musharraf.

The single, strong parent in this case was a desperate State Department – with John Negroponte as the ghoulish go-between and Gordon Brown as the blushing bridesmaid – fearful that if it did not push this through both parties might soon be too old for recycling. The bride was certainly in a hurry, the groom less so. Brokers from both sides engaged in lengthy negotiations on the size of the dowry. Her broker was and remains Rehman Malik, a former boss of Pakistan’s FIA, who has been investigated for corruption by the National Accountability Bureau and who served nearly a year in prison after Benazir’s fall, then became one of her business partners and is currently under investigation (with her) by a Spanish court looking into a company called Petroline FZC, which made questionable payments to Iraq under Saddam Hussein.
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n24/ali_01_.html

]]> By: sadiqahmed http://pkpolitics.com/2009/07/21/islamabad-tonight-1-july-2009-2/#comment-237419 sadiqahmed Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:30:21 +0000 http://pkpolitics.com/?p=10999#comment-237419 Tariq Ali great. He was right when he showed his disappointment over attitude of zardari and Sharifs. No one is serious about Pakistan. Tariq Ali great. He was right when he showed his disappointment over attitude of zardari and Sharifs. No one is serious about Pakistan.

]]> By: ISLAMABAD TONIGHT « NADEEM MALIK – ندیم ملک http://pkpolitics.com/2009/07/21/islamabad-tonight-1-july-2009-2/#comment-237415 ISLAMABAD TONIGHT « NADEEM MALIK – ندیم ملک Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:52:26 +0000 http://pkpolitics.com/?p=10999#comment-237415 [...] Tonight » Islamabad Tonight – 21 July 2009 (Balochistan) [21 Jul 2009 | One Comment | [...] [...] Tonight » Islamabad Tonight – 21 July 2009 (Balochistan) [21 Jul 2009 | One Comment | [...]

]]> By: pakistanimunda http://pkpolitics.com/2009/07/21/islamabad-tonight-1-july-2009-2/#comment-237281 pakistanimunda Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:02:54 +0000 http://pkpolitics.com/?p=10999#comment-237281 Watch this... very nicely delivered speech by Tariq Ali.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oYdvQZVvrU Watch this… very nicely delivered speech by Tariq Ali….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oYdvQZVvrU

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