Comments on: Can Sharif Do It? http://www.chowrangi.com/can-sharif-do-it.html Pakistan Politics, Current Affairs, Business and Lifestyle Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:32:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 by: ReallyVirtual http://www.chowrangi.com/can-sharif-do-it.html#comment-95436 Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:44:44 +0000 http://www.chowrangi.com/can-sharif-do-it.html#comment-95436 To be honest, I was half expecting such a blast and did not go watch Nawaz' first address (which was a 5 minute walk from my home). I heard that the Saudi Govt. gifted him a bullet proof car but he refused to use it (don't know if its true though). To be honest, I was half expecting such a blast and did not go watch Nawaz’ first address (which was a 5 minute walk from my home). I heard that the Saudi Govt. gifted him a bullet proof car but he refused to use it (don’t know if its true though).

]]> by: Pakteahouse http://www.chowrangi.com/can-sharif-do-it.html#comment-95121 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:18:50 +0000 http://www.chowrangi.com/can-sharif-do-it.html#comment-95121 Fahd: thanks for alerting us to this well written post. PTH has posted a piece that discusses a larger malaise: "If all sections of the bourgeois opposition are conniving with the Musharraf regime and contemplating participating in the sham January 8 elections, it is because they all covet a slice of political power and the patronage prerogative that goes with it and fear that if they boycott the elections their rivals will benefit. Even more importantly, they all are terrified of a genuine popular mobilization against military rule, for they recognize that the military is the bulwark of their privileges—of the Pakistani nation-state and Pakistan’s vastly unequal property-relations. “ More here: http://pakteahouse.wordpress.com/2007/11/27/pakistans-traditional-bourgeois-political-establishment/ Fahd: thanks for alerting us to this well written post.

PTH has posted a piece that discusses a larger malaise:

“If all sections of the bourgeois opposition are conniving with the Musharraf regime and contemplating participating in the sham January 8 elections, it is because they all covet a slice of political power and the patronage prerogative that goes with it and fear that if they boycott the elections their rivals will benefit. Even more importantly, they all are terrified of a genuine popular mobilization against military rule, for they recognize that the military is the bulwark of their privileges—of the Pakistani nation-state and Pakistan’s vastly unequal property-relations. “

More here:
http://pakteahouse.wordpress.com/2007/11/27/pakistans-traditional-bourgeois-political-establishment/

]]> by: Kashif Aziz http://www.chowrangi.com/can-sharif-do-it.html#comment-95115 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:20:25 +0000 http://www.chowrangi.com/can-sharif-do-it.html#comment-95115 If Nawaz Sharif thinks free and fair elections are possible in presence of Musharraf (and his selected care-takers), he is living in Fool's Paradise. Only resolution of the situation is to boycott elections until Musharraf gets lost, judges are released and political situation winded back to Nov. 3. Anything else will be considered as a deal. If Nawaz Sharif thinks free and fair elections are possible in presence of Musharraf (and his selected care-takers), he is living in Fool’s Paradise. Only resolution of the situation is to boycott elections until Musharraf gets lost, judges are released and political situation winded back to Nov. 3. Anything else will be considered as a deal.

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