Farrukh Khan Pitafi’s Official Website

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May 12 seems to me a cursed day. Last year witnessed the bloodshed of uncountable innocents. Today we are witnessing the blood of democracy being spilled. Some say that the President must be very happy. With due respect I do [...]

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 Respected Sir,
The country is passing through the most taxing times. Democracy seems under tremendous pressure, lawyers have endured terrible financial losses, media again is standing on a forked path. In such a situation everyone is looking towards you for your [...]

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It seems that we the citizens and the voters of the country are more concerned with saving the country than the coalition partners. Why should we not be for they are sitting [...]

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I have just returned from a press talk of Foreign Minister Shah Mahmud Qureshi and while the talks are still deadlocked on the issue of the judges’ restoration there is heartening signs of progress elsewhere. The [...]

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The meeting in Dubai is over. Nawaz Sharif is to articulate his views today in Lahore. Unfortunately the perspective of the People’s Party is not very even though it reiterates it’s principled stand according to the Murree Declaration. Nor is it clear [...]

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Coalition politics is one of the most difficult of products of democracy. To win over and and take a huge number of differing parties along is quite an onerous task. While in most cases the coalitions that are formed prove welcome news [...]

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Believe me, I am not a prophet of doom or gloom. But it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand that our country is in grave peril. If my memory serves me right my country was not like this. We never had fear [...]

Tags: Chaos, Democracy, Law and Order, Musharraf

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It is astounding how we mortals often take our own selves more seriously than what we are. A clear example is the struggle going on within Pakistan. Perhaps it is because [...]

Tags: Books, Democracy, Politics

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Something eerie seems to be happening since the national elections. We seem to have to have forgotten all virtues of patience learnt during the time of the authoritarian regime. After their win the victors came together in Bhurban to [...]

Tags: Democracy, Institutions, Media Freedom, Musharraf, Reconciliation, Tolerance

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We were taught in the theories of international relations that democracies do not go to war. That notion however somehow seems lost in the erratic behaviour of the US administration regarding Pakistan. During the eight year long [...]

Tags: Bush, CIA, Democracy, Great Game, Intelligence, Narco Trade, Pakistan, USA, War on Terror, West