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Interview: Fatima Bhutto

“Pakistani politicians have a tendency to enhance their own powers; Zulfikar Ali Bhutto should have been different,” says Fatima Bhutto.

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[31 May 2010 | No Comment | Anees Jillani]
More Power to Whom?

How far has the 18th Amendment gone in undoing the work of military dictators?

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[27 Dec 2009 | 8 Comments | Mohammed Hanif]
A BB Murder Fantasy

It has been two years since Benazir Bhutto’s assassination. Here, Mohammed Hanif remembers her life and how it crossed his.

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[20 Oct 2009 | One Comment | Nadir Hassan]
The Transparency Tangle

The PPPs criticism of Transparency International’s annual corruption report is without merit.

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[3 Jan 2009 | No Comment | Pervez Hoodbhoy]
The Saudi-isation of Pakistan

Fearful of taking on the powerful religious forces, every incumbent government has refused to take a position on the curriculum and thus quietly allowed young minds to be moulded by fanatics. What may happen a generation later has always been a secondary issue for a government challenged on so many fronts.

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Interview: Farooq Sattar

“MQM has always denounced the politics of arms,” says Farooq Sattar

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[10 Jun 2007 | No Comment | Rehana Hakim]
Editor’s Note: June 2007

After consistently proclaiming that he was a staunch believer in the freedom of the media, General Musharraf struck a deadly blow to press freedom in the shape of the Pemra Amendment Ordinance 2007.

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[14 May 2007 | No Comment | Zahid Hussain]
Musharraf’s Battle for Survival

Pakistan is in the eye of the storm, with Islamic zealots meting out vigilante justice, pro-democracy rallies becoming larger and more vociferous, fearful residents demanding order and an embattled military-led regime scrambling to maintain its political hold.

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[11 Nov 2006 | No Comment | Rehana Hakim]
Editor’s Note: November 2006

Even before the dust had settled on the Nawab Bugti incident, the Musharraf government kicked up another raging storm.

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[17 Sep 2006 | No Comment | Sairah Irshad Khan]
Interview: Jamil Bugti

“When mobs in Karachi burn down public property, is military action taken against them?” asks Jamil Bugti.