Ali Malik's blog

i see a hope of Pakistan becoming a more civilized country being run by the book... and the hope stems from the fact that in the recent years, all across the country, a whole new class of rich has been born as a result of property and stock booms... now this new class is going to challenge the existing aristocracy of the country by hook or by crook (because of its sheer size and wealth). and so for the exisiting aristocracy on the whole, the only way to survive is to make civilized rules and play by them... anyone who wants to observe the ruthlessness of this new class, just drive on Lahore roads for an hour...:)

UN Secretary General post for Benazir... one must be kidding... being an ex-PM of Pakistan is way more dignified than being UN General Secretary.... and this is an ultimate demotion which is pretty unacceptable unless... ummm... if you are Farooq Leghari:)

Every time people write her off, she surprisingly makes a come back and makes people realize that she is a FORCE to reckon with. I have always been a great admirer of her fighting spirit but off-late even I started having doubts about her survival in the future for the first time. But this time again she proved everyone wrong including myself. It seems that she is well on her way to a grand comeback. Benazir is still a force to be acknowledged and seriously considered. And I say this based on a couple of facts. a) she has been acquitted in PIA reference case (By a heavily biased accountability apparatus). b) and no matter what the Govt. Says or the Deputy Chairman NAB says, it seems that she is going to have her day in the Swiss Reference and it is evident from the desperation of Govt. Now imagine a Benazir clear of any wrong doing (twice by Pakistan courts, PIA reference and Supreme Court verdict that turned her sentence around, and more importantly by a foreign court) with all her pe