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		<title>PM&#8217;s wife settles corruption case.. but how.. not details released</title>
		<link>http://hankypanky.wordpress.com/2009/09/05/pms-wife-settles-corruption-case-but-how-not-details-released/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 13:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is another example of extreme corruption and nepotism.  Read and enjoy or rather pity the nation&#8230; This country deserves better. If Yousuf Raza Gilani and his wife are clean then all the details of so-call &#8217;setttlement&#8217; must be made public in full.
An accountability court disposed of on Friday two corruption references against the wife [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hankypanky.wordpress.com&blog=328174&post=107&subd=hankypanky&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tainted banker rewarded &#8211; Zardari&#8217;s cesspool continues to take shape</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Salim Raza, the banker who helped arrange President Zardari have unverified bank accounts at Citibank (facilitated money laundering) to facilitate SGS Cotecna money laundering scam is now nominated by Zardari to be the State Bank of Pakistan&#8217;s Governor replacing Shamshad Akhtar.
Of course Zardari does not forgets his friends and benefactors&#8230;&#8230; On the other hand his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hankypanky.wordpress.com&blog=328174&post=102&subd=hankypanky&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bring the deposed Chief Justice of Pakistan back</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 23:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is another story of the farcical de facto chief justice (CJ) who has occupied the highest seat of Judiciary unconstitutionally in Pakistan and the collusion of the PPP government to manipulate the education board (an independent institution) to get CJ&#8217;s daughter a higher grade &#8230;..   read on!
what a shame!!!
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The PPP government on Thursday aggressively [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hankypanky.wordpress.com&blog=328174&post=98&subd=hankypanky&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Asif Zardari (and buddies) now own KESC</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 22:18:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mystery surrounding the new owners of KESC, Karachi’s beleaguered power  supply utility, has finally been unraveled. In a rare show of plain speaking,  the top boss of Abraaj Capital with his 40 expensive executives, has made  startling written confessions which may stun the nation.
In response to  35-questions sent to Abraaj/KESC’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hankypanky.wordpress.com&blog=328174&post=96&subd=hankypanky&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Totalitarian regime revisited</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:36:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that Musharraf has gone, one would think that things will start to improve for Pakistan.. alas not at all.
The country has a severe leadership crisis. People have to choose between bad and worse&#8230;&#8230; such is the situation that former Mr 10% is going to become the President of the country. The people of Pakistan [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hankypanky.wordpress.com&blog=328174&post=75&subd=hankypanky&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where is Sanity</title>
		<link>http://hankypanky.wordpress.com/2008/08/11/where-is-sanity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, 83% of Pakistanis want the President out (according to International Republican Institute&#8217;s latest survey)
http://www.iri.org/newsarchive/2008/2008-07-17-News-Reuters-Pakistan.asp
But, he would not budge&#8230; what a stone&#8230;.   Democracy when it works in my favor is democracy, when it doesn&#8217;t, it is just ignorable&#8230;
Enough is enough
The country is in trough
Mushi; you’ve a thousand times fluffed
t’s time for you to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hankypanky.wordpress.com&blog=328174&post=69&subd=hankypanky&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Denying the undeniable</title>
		<link>http://hankypanky.wordpress.com/2008/07/23/denying-the-undeniable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A sad state of affairs indeed&#8230; and a long journey to a true democratic and welfare state..


“For us relief is only when our loved one is safe and sound standing freed before us. [...] I believe that my husband Masood is held only three kilometres from my home, yet he continues to suffer unknown ill-treatment [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hankypanky.wordpress.com&blog=328174&post=65&subd=hankypanky&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Happened to Prime Minister’s Speech</title>
		<link>http://hankypanky.wordpress.com/2008/07/20/what-happened-to-prime-minister%e2%80%99s-speech/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:47:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is an excellent piece on the first televised speech of the Prime Minister&#8230;. reproduced without comments.
After postponing his speech for three times in that past, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani at last mustered his guts and tried to deliver it in the absence of Asif Ali Zardari. The news of Premier’s speech was there [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hankypanky.wordpress.com&blog=328174&post=61&subd=hankypanky&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;His&#8221; moment of truth</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of course, the Presidency has confirmed the Wednesday night meeting between President Musharraf and Chief of the Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kiyani, but insists that it was of routine nature. There was not much in terms of elaboration from the army side as well, perhaps in keeping with the tradition that militaries do not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hankypanky.wordpress.com&blog=328174&post=60&subd=hankypanky&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chief Justice &#8211; will he get justice?</title>
		<link>http://hankypanky.wordpress.com/2008/04/26/chief-justice-will-he-get-justice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), which has so far been a great champion of the restoration of the judiciary through parliament, is considering the option of a Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry-specific constitutional amendment, slashing his tenure from June 2013 to 2010.
Though no decision has been taken by the party leadership as yet on this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hankypanky.wordpress.com&blog=328174&post=59&subd=hankypanky&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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