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Off the Record – 25 May 2011
May 26th
Sharmeela Farooqi (PPPP), Zafar Ali shah (PML-N), Tahir Mashhadi (MQM) and Talha Mehmood (JUI-F) in Today’s episode of Off The Record with Kashif Abbasi.
Altaf Hussain reconciles with MQM-H leader Amir Khan
May 25th
Khan was released from the central jail on 23 May after the Sindh High Court revoked his life term.
Aamir Khan back to MQM fold
May 25th
KARACHI: Mohajir Qaumi Movement (MQM)-Haqeeqi Chairman, Aamir Khan is back to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) fold, Geo News reported. Aamir Khan was released two days ago and after a happy get-together with his family, he accompanied by Muttahida l…
Altaf terms naval base attack as open defeat
May 25th
LONDON: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Qaid Altaf Hussain has strongly condemned terrorist attack on Pak naval base in Karachi and prayed for the martyrs of navy and Rangers officials, Geo News reported. In a statement from London, Altaf Hussain said p…
WikiLeaks: Zardari wanted government of ‘national unity’
May 24th
Cable reveals Zardari felt the ‘agencies’ might try to split the PPP by backing Amin Fahim.
MQM meets businessmen: Traders demand agriculture tax
May 22nd
Threaten to call countrywide strike if wealth tax is imposed.
Listing priorities: Sindh wants development budget up by 10%
May 22nd
MQM says it will oppose any new tax in the new budget.
Power play: Political backroom dealings dictating Pakistani politics?
May 21st
Role of establishment prominent in cables; Nawaz not taken into confidence over various CJ ‘solutions’.
Attention: Sindh is up for grabs
May 21st
Ever since the party was first launched in the late 1960s, Sindh has firmly stayed loyal to the Bhutto clan and one of the fundamental assumptions in Pakistani politics is that rural Sindh will always vote, by and large, for the PPP. In the 1980s,
Pre-Budget Discussion: MQM to oppose RGST in next year’s budget
May 20th
MQM policy with regard to implementation of RGST would remain the same for the next financial year.
