24.2.08

Rigging, as in...

...rigging of elections, is a household word in Pakistan; not least because elections in Pakistan are normally rigged in some way or the other. The following report gives a view how.

The man, who rigged 2002 polls, spills the beans

20.2.08

Interesting take on...

...the stepping down of Fidel Castro:
Mark Steel: So, farewell, Fidel – but please don't give a speech

The elections' results...

...in Pakistan have given the people good material for discussion. Though what is being overlooked are the meetings being held by American diplomats with the leaders of the political parties; local newspapers are reporting that the co-chairman of the PPP, the party with the largest number of seats in the national assembly, met with the US ambassador, wait for this, in the American embassy!! I mean, come on. The leaders of the PML-N, the party with the second-largest number of seats, met with the US diplomat in Lahore, though I did not read enough to know whether that meeting too was at the US consulate in Lahore, or some other place!!
This is similar to what I wrote about previously.

16.2.08

Jemima Khan meets...

...the dictator: Though I wonder what is so extraordinary about it. One day you shout slogans against him, the other you meet him to listen him tell his story. What for, methinks.
An extraordinary encounter with Musharraf

13.2.08

News from...

...the shadowy world of secret agents and killers:
Car bomb kills Hizbullah chief in Syria

4.2.08

Though this story...

...is interesting as such, the real fun part is how the alleged plan described in story was discovered. Well, how else, it was on a memory stick!!

Revealed: British plan to build training camp for Taliban fighters in Afghanistan