Tag: #HaiderMehdi
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Skipper – Its about Pakistan
This opinion is shared by Haider Mehdi. First of, Skipper, most people who support you do so for the sake of Pakistan and will continue to do so whether it’s supporting you or anybody else who can take Pakistan out of the clutches of her terrible and existential elite capture. Doesn’t matter who these elites…
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Gilani’s Senate Win
This opinion is shared by Haider Mehdi. Saddened and ashamed at the level of acceptance of corrupt criminal behaviour in this country by those who are supposedly the good amongst us! People love to crap on IK, pull the rug from under his feet, make fun of him, ridicule him, criticize him, but fail to…
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Senate Elections – A short Note (Part 2)
This opinion is shared by Haider Mehdi. Received feedback implying that Proportional Representation was for equity to Provinces not to Parties. This was the argument of the Sindh Bar Council chief to the SC. So here’s the question. If the electoral college for Senate comprises members of political parties who were voted to reflect the…
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Senate Elections
This opinion is shared by Haider Mehdi. I think this whole piece of proportional representation, secret ballot, show of hands for Senate elections is totally effed up. So here’s what proportional representation means. If a party has “x” number of seats in the electoral college, which comprise both the National and Provincial Assemblies then it…
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Unleashing Pakistan’s Potential!
This opinion is shared by Haider Mehdi. Pakistan requires total reform. An uprooting of the old order. Not incremental changes on the edifice of the old order, whether its British parliamentary type democracy or our completely dysfunctional electoral system, judiciary, law enforcement, bureaucracy. PML-N involves in vandalism to have grip in all elections: Shibli Rwandan…
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The Bye-Elections – A short note
This opinion is shared by Haider Mehdi. In my opinion, the timely kick to the PTI backside in losing the bye elections, manifests several things. 1. Effect of Inflation. 2. Poor governance in Punjab. Specifically, Usman Buzdar’s leadership. 3. Ineffective engagement by Imran with his party’s second line leadership, especially in Punjab and Sind. For…
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PDM – Sharifs, Bhuttos, Zardaris, Hawaris
This opinion is shared by Haider Mehdi. Our problem as a society, and I take the entire subcontinent as one entity, is much bigger and deep rooted then just Panama or Broadsheet or PDM or the shamelessness of a Maryam or a Bilawal and their hanger on leeches! (Apologies for this harsh note. US Existing…
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Pakistan’s Power Outage – 5th Generation Warfare – The Yunus Dhaga Post
This opinion is shared by Haider Mehdi. Earlier today a particular post flooded my phone, supposedly from Yunus Dhaga, former Secretary Water and Power, former Finance Secretary and as fine a man as one can find, stating that terrorists had blown up a power facility in Baluchistan which triggered the nationwide blackout! I was shocked…
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Pakistan and the Pakistan Army
This opinion is shared by Haider Mehdi. DEC 30, 2020 (OPED – DAILY TIMES): Lately, I’ve stopped writing my regular OPED, given the extreme partisan single minded views generally expressed by readers and the absence of a pluralistic approach to a sane dialogue. Admittedly I do not subscribe to a ”on the one hand and…
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Roger Elliot on Courage
This opinion is shared by Haider Mehdi. I think that mostly, courage isn’t about great dragon-slaying undertakings. It’s about the myriad of internal struggles every day, to do what we know is right, to say what may be unpopular, to face down our own fears. Courage is about speaking and acting your truth, no matter…