Pakistan Friends Terminal is an Entertainment and Pakistani Political blog with Pakistani News Videos, Talk shows, like Mere Mutabiq with Shahid Masood, Capital talk with Hamid Meer, Off The Record with Kashif Abbasi, 4 Man Show, Ham Sab Umeed se Hain and Live with Talat Hussain.
Live With Talat 20th August 2008
21August 2008
Host: Talat Hussain Guests: Riyaz Khokher and Najm Uddin
________________________________________________________Nayyar Zaidi detained by FBI in USA
21August 2008
Today Mr Sadiq, spokesman of Pakistan Foreign Office while in conversation with Mr Mazhar Iqbal in a TV Program dead line, told that Pakistani Based journalist, Nayyar Zaidi is detained by FBI & if his family contact them, they (Pakistan foreign office) will provide them all kind of assisstance.Laters he told that ” we are fully aware of past charges on Nayyar Zaidi”
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Bolta Pakistan 20th August 2008
21August 2008
Hosts: Nusrat Javed and Mushtaq Minhas
________________________________________________________Kal Tak 20th August 2008
20August 2008
Host: Javed Chauhdary
Guests:
Khawaja Asif & Aitzaz Ehsan
Altaf Hussain Proposed Zardari for Presidency
20August 2008
MQM’s Leader Altaf Hussain Proposed Zardari for Presidency 19 August
________________________________________________________Capital Talk 20th August 2008
20August 2008
Hamid Mir with latest episode of capital talk. Guests: Ch. Nisar Ali Khan, Syed Mushahid Hussain & Athar MinaAllah
________________________________________________________Madrid plane crash
20August 2008
150 dead in Madrid plane crash As many as 150 people were feared killed today when a packed passenger jet caught fire and overshot the runway as it tried to take off from Madrid’s main international airport.
The Spanair plane crashed and broke apart after failing to lift off from runway No 6 at the Barajas airport. It was headed for Las Palmas airport on the island of Gran Canaria.
Reuters news agency quoted sources in the emergency services as saying that all but 25 of the 173 people aboard - 164 passengers and nine crew - had been killed. That was far ahead of the official death toll of around 45. Read the rest of this entry »
________________________________________________________Deposed judges to be restored in a week: PM
20August 2008
Deposed judges to be restored in a week: PMISLAMABAD: Prime Minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani, Wednesday said that no one should have any doubts about restoration of judges and assured of their reinstatement in a week.
It may be remembered that the ruling coalition had failed to reach any consensus over the issue of judges restoration.
Therefore, Pakistan People’s Party and Pakistan Muslim League-N tasked ANP and JUI to prepare recommendations in this regard and for this they were allowed 72 hours.
Deposed judges to be restored in one week: PM
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What’s a former dictator to do when he retires?
20August 2008
# Mohammed Hanif
# The Guardian,
# Wednesday August 20 2008
Pakistan’s former president, General Pervez Musharraf, deserves our sympathy. Not because he is being dragged out of his office whining and whingeing but because, like most dictators of his longevity, he has been caught out without a retirement plan. Only a few weeks ago he was wagging his finger at Pakistan’s governing coalition and telling them to “Put your house in order or else.” Now he finds himself without a house to live in, and without a country willing to welcome him as an eminent exile.
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Pakistan post-Musharraf
20August 2008
Deadlock and death in inauspicious start to Pakistan post-Musharraf
- The Guardian,
- Wednesday August 20 2008
Post-Musharraf Pakistan got off to an inauspicious start yesterday, after a meeting of the coalition government resulted in deadlock over the key issue of the judiciary, and Taliban militants demonstrated that their violent campaign would continue with a suicide bombing that killed at least 27.
Pervez Musharraf resigned as Pakistan’s president on Monday in order to avoid impeachment following a series of crises, starting with the sacking in March 2007 of the country’s chief justice. Read the rest of this entry »
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