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April’s B-side begins by passing comment on an optimistic view of Pakistan’s future whilst retaining focus on regular pet hates such as the dreaded drones. In the final article the troubling questions arising from the Benazir Bhutto UN Report  are explored. April 2010′s B-side contents include: Room for Optimism by MOHSIN HAMID The Obama Doctrine: Kill don’t [...]

On the 9th of March 2007 Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammed Chaudhry stood tall against a military dictator. Two years on from that day I feel somewhat nostalgic and want to state what has been achieved since that fateful day. The stand taken by ‘The Chief’ as I fondly call him and the principled lawyers movement [...]

The disgraceful and demeaning assaults on Dr Sher Afghan Niazi and Dr Arbab Rahim have left a bad taste in the mouth. As a nation we all felt diminshed and degraded by such futile actions, however the nation was to witness even more turmoil with the barbaric MQM-sponsored massacre of innocents in Karachi a day [...]

As a principled political opponent of Benazir Bhutto I have been stumped by my own reaction of her death. On Friday I read her Ghaibana Janazah and felt compelled to do as my tribute to her memory and above all to the Bhutto family. I am still in shock and full of mixed emotions and [...]

Pakistan is bleeding again, a national earthquake has struck all of Pakistan without warning for Pakistan has lost the one and only Benazir Bhutto . My beloved nation is once again torn and shattered. I am not a supporter rather an opponent but her death has shocked one and all. Pakistan is the loser today. [...]

I watched a news report this morning from Sky News vis a vis the upcoming return of the Lady of Larkana, the one and only Mrs Benazir Zardari. Such interest from a British news channel is not surprising given Mrs Zardari return has been fashioned by Pakistan’s erstwhile friends in Washington and London who are [...]

The legendary political commentator Khalid Hasan wrote last week in the Daily Times about the daughter of the east’s insistence to be referred to by her party workers only as ‘Mohtarma’ if they wish to keep her on side. A question arises as to why the name ‘ Benazir’ meaning incomparable causes so much irk [...]