Towards a French Sixth Republic? on October 1, 2007Nearly 50 years after the creation of the Fifth Republic by General Charles de Gaulle, Nicolas Sarkozy wants to change France’s fundamental institutions. An expert council will send him its proposals by November 1.Whereas British democracy is deeply rooted despite its supposedly “unwritten” constitution, and the US constitution has been amended only 26 times since […]
Current imbroglio on October 1, 2007Current imbroglioSir: The current imbroglio in our country reminds me of a saying by mathematician-philosopher Gian Carlos Rota: “When pygmies cast such long shadows, it must be very late in the day”.PROF M AZAMIslamabad