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Musharraf with Fareed Zakaria CNN

Jan 27th

CNN (Video-1) (Video-2) (YouTube 1) (YouTube 2) (YouTube 3) Read Full interview below: This is a rush copy and may be updated. 17 May 2009 – FAREED ZAKARIA, HOST, GLOBAL PUBLIC SQUARE: This is GPS, the GLOBAL PUBLIC SQUARE. Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world. I’m Fareed Zakaria. [...]

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Musharraf with ‘Frost over the World’

Jan 27th

View Video of Musharraf’s Interview Read full interview below Courtesy of ‘Af-Pak’ War Frost: Hello, and welcome to Frost Over the World. Today, in an exclusive interview, we are speaking to the man who ruled Pakistan for almost a decade. Former president Musharraf is with us here in the studio, now. Later we’ll hear about the [...]

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General Musharraf’s address at India Today Conclave

Jan 27th

Watch Video of Musharraf’s Speech Bismillah Rehman Ur Rahim. Aroon Puri Sahab, excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen. It is indeed my proud privilege to be speaking to such an august gathering. I would like to express my gratitude first of all to Aroon Purie sahab for having invited me and then giving me this opportunity to [...]

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Ayesha Siddiqa’s MILITARY INC: A Deflective and Derogatory Book

Oct 23rd

Dr Ayesha Siddiqa’s ‘The Military Inc.’ is a book deflective of reality, highly derogatory and against the very notion of sovereignty. The publication of Dr Ayesha Siddiqa’s own book ‘Military Inc’ in 2007, in President Musharraf’s era, repudiates her claims to term the military rule as manipulative and suppressive. Dr Ayesha Siddiqa wrote a whole book, to malign a system (MILBUS) whose worth does not exceed 0.8% of Pakistan’s free market economy.

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War on Terrorism in Pakistan’s National Interest

Jun 23rd

Written by: Afreen Baig War on Terrorism (WoT) did not start with the advent of 9/11, rather it started in 1980’s when Russia was defeated in Afghanistan, and the USA pulled out abandoning the hundreds of thousands of equipped and trained guerillas. Those guerillas and militants integrated in small pockets in various regions of Afghanistan [...]

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Musharraf Era performance: Pakistan Flourishes

Jun 18th

Compiled By: Mirza Rohail B ©Our leader – Musharraf All this is all the more amazing when one considers that just six years ago, Pakistan was on the verge of bankruptcy, with only a little more than $1bn in foreign exchange reserves and its stock market teetering at 1,000 points (worth $5 billion only) and [...]

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International Regional Conspiracy and Pakistan’s standing

Jun 15th

Written By: Afreen Baig When President Musharraf took over, Pakistan was on the verge of default and bankruptcy, with less than a billion dollars in its foreign reserves and 65% of the revenues being spend on debt servicing. The external debt had grown from $ 18 billion in 1988 to become $ 38 billion [...]

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International Wheat Crisis and its Effect on Pakistan

Jun 15th

Written By: Afreen Baig Pakistan produced RECORD wheat In 2005-06, Pakistan produced 21,591,400 metric tons of wheat, more than all of Africa (20,304,585 metric tons) and nearly as much as all of South America (24,557,784 metric tons). The Federal Bureau of Statistics valued Major Crops yields at Rs.504,868 million in 2005 thus registering over 55% [...]

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Mumbai Mystery: American Designs on Pakistan and India

May 1st

We removed the lid on the American designs on Pakistan and India. Equally disturbing is the reality that Central Asia, China and Russia are also in the crosshairs of the United States. What we have found is sheer in scope, mind-boggling and frightening. Bifurcate Pakistan.