Lahore, Sept 6: PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari’s ascendancy to the presidency seems to be a foregone conclusion as MNAs and MPAs in Pakistan cast their votes to elect the country’s next President, but chances of Zardari completing his full five year term are bleak if one goes by the country’s political history.
In the past 61 years after Separation, none of the seven presidents Pakistan had, could complete his full five year term.
St. Paul (Minnesota), Sept. 5: Her acceptance speech may have drawn 37 million television viewers, just 1.1 million less than those who heard Barack Obama speak in Denver on August 28, but Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has to now move onto the national stage and prove that she is vice-presidential material.
Washington, Sept. 5: Alaska Governor and Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin almost managed to overhaul Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama in terms of attracting the number of television viewers to hear her acceptance speech on Wednesday night at the party’s convention in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Palin drew 37 million viewers, just 1.1 million viewers shy of Obama’s record-breaking speech in Denver on August 28, according to recent Nielsen Media Research ratings.
Islamabad, Sept. 5: Pakistan is set for a return to the politics of revenge, retribution and blatant self-interest that bedeviled it in the 1990s, as the country prepares for Saturday’s presidential poll.
According to a Vancouver Sun report, Benazir Bhutto's widower, Asif Ali Zardari, is a frontrunner for the job, but it cautions that a controversial Zardari, is showing a taste for partisan blood.
Washington, Sept. 5: In a new 487-page book that is to be released on September 8, noted Washington Post journalist and author Bob Woodward has termed US President George W. Bush "the nation’s most divisive figure."
In the book titled “"The War Within", which is the fourth installment in a series of books that he has written on the president, Woodward criticizes Bush for failing to fulfill what some might view as impossible expectations.
Washington, Sept. 5: Barack Obama’s vice-presidential running mate, Joe Biden, has indicated that a new Democratic administration could pursue criminal charges against the Bush administration over the treatment of detainees in Guantanamo bay.
Lahore, Sept 6: PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari’s ascendancy to the presidency seems to be a foregone conclusion as MNAs and MPAs in Pakistan cast their votes to elect the country’s next President, but chances of Zardari completing his full five year term are bleak if one goes by the country’s political history.
St. Paul (Minnesota), Sept. 5: Her acceptance speech may have drawn 37 million television viewers, just 1.1 million less than those who heard Barack Obama speak in Denver on August 28, but Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has to now move onto the national stage and prove that she is vice-presidential material.
Washington, Sept. 5: Alaska Governor and Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin almost managed to overhaul Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama in terms of attracting the number of television viewers to hear her acceptance speech on Wednesday night at the party’s convention in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Islamabad, Sept. 5: Pakistan is set for a return to the politics of revenge, retribution and blatant self-interest that bedeviled it in the 1990s, as the country prepares for Saturday’s presidential poll.
Washington, Sept. 5: In a new 487-page book that is to be released on September 8, noted Washington Post journalist and author Bob Woodward has termed US President George W. Bush "the nation’s most divisive figure."
Washington, Sept. 5: Barack Obama’s vice-presidential running mate, Joe Biden, has indicated that a new Democratic administration could pursue criminal charges against the Bush administration over the treatment of detainees in Guantanamo bay. 
