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It has been weeks now without any moving images and worse even any bullish interviews of our commando strongman one General Musharraf. It is perhaps poetic justice that the author of the war crime that is the missing persons issue is himself now a missing person. The brave commando has obviously lost his spine for [...]

The lion of the lawyers movement, the great Justice (Retd) Tariq Mahmood has sent a message to the nation even though he remains under illegal house arrest. The press release is shown verbatim below: Press Release – FROM JUSTICE (Retd.) TARIQ MAHMOOD, Islamabad, 21 February 2008- An Active Member of the Lawyers’ Movement and Still [...]

Balaj is only 7.Since 9th March 2007 he has not been able to go to school. He was detained in the house along with his family. There are barricades and hundreds of policemen, Elite force personnel posted outside his house. He needs physio-therapy regularly but he has not been given any treatment since November 3, [...]

The election results are still coming in as I write this and it looks like Musharraf and his cronies in the Qatil League have endured a thorough beating. The likes of the King of Pindi have been dethroned as well as many others who are too many to mention in this short post. All I [...]

Regular visitors of Other Pakistan will know of my deep regard for Ansar Burney. I have even helped in generating funds for his work by providing a working link to his website on this blog. This post about Ansar Burney has been a long time coming and should have been written in early November. It [...]

The forthcoming elections (or should I say selections!) promise to be a fantastic fraud and promise to be a parting gift from the soon departing General. That said there are individuals standing in this election that richly deserve support and should be elected, one such person is Munnaza Abdul Razzaq who is standing in Lahore [...]

I was recently interviewed by Pakistan Spectator and wanted to share the interview with you all. It is hoped that you find the interview worthwile as I have chose to share it with a hope that it will help OP readers to understand the vision of Other Pakistan. In addition the interview will provide an [...]

I just got Athar Minallah’s email via the Emergency List and had to share it with you for it contains the response of the Chief Justice of Pakistan against the lies of Mush the usurper general. It is also important to remind you all that tomorrow is ‘Iftikhar Day’ so lets mark this day with [...]

The classic film ‘Roti’ starring the legendary Rajesh Khanna begins with his character Mangal stealing roti as a child from a restaurant to fill his empty stomach. This event transforms him for life because he is punished for this ‘heinous sin’ and from here on in his life of crime begins. In another classic Bollywood [...]

Pakistan is suffering an acute energy crisis like never before. As usual it is once again the poor masses who are suffering the most with regular loadshedding adding to their multitude of woes. At a personal level I find that even the optimist in me dies a quick death when I hear that the energy [...]