<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">Plea bargain is a concurrence between the defense and prosecution (the state) before a conviction is reached. The defendant pleads guilty to the charges in return for a lesser sentence, conviction or even for sentence leniency. Defendants must weigh the pros and cons whether or not they are guilty. They must also reflect on […]
Tap dancing and Pakistani politics
Saeed Minhas Islamabad– The magnanimity of thought and action expressed by the acting president of Nawaz League, Makhdoom Javed Hashmi in the National Assembly was something which President Gen. Musharraf, Benazir Bhutto, Nawaz Sharif and other political leaders might need to take this country out of present political, social and constitutional quagmire. But as Jim […]
Musharraf to doff uniform for re-election
Saeed Minhas writes from Islamabad: President Gen. Pervaiz Musharraf is heading for his home town Karachi to informally launch his formal re-election campaign in the coming week, learned The Frontier Post on good authority. Following a hectic schedule of meetings with the political and top commanders of the country in the capital, President Gen. […]
Musharraf still in the line of fire
Saeed Minhas Islamabad– As Red Mosque continues to haunt Musharraf on the floor of the House, claimants of his legacy continued to hatch another plan in the chambers of the prime minister to keep the President in the line of fire. Plans are afoot to ensure that President gets the nod required to keep him […]
Why are some countries rich and others poor?
Richness and poverty are the outcomes of human effort. Richness is the result of efficient effort whereas poverty is the result of lack of efficiency in the historical background from time to time. Time can speak. It can speak according to the effectiveness of thought and its usage. Time is not bias to the richness […]
Meritocracy and Education
As over breakfast , I switched on the television for the morning news, the opening headline was about the Symbiosis University in Pune has unilaterally gone ahead and decided to implement an OBC quota in its courses, without waiting for the Supreme Court verdict on the matter. As the TV screen came alive, the anchor […]