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March 2012’s B-side covers a variety of issues and topics which combined provide the Pakistani people grounds for much needed optimism The B-side begins by an article by the respected Western journalist Peter Oborne on the real Pakistan and acts as a counterweight to the West’s lazy and negative stereotypes of the land of the [...]

December 2011’s B-side focuses on the rise of a new politics in Pakistan in the form of an article by James Caan on the rise of Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). With this in mind, the emergence of Bilawal Bhutto Zardari in the PPP is also examined in an article penned by him. The B-side [...]

November 2011’s B-side has its main focus on the emergence of a third force in Pakistani politics in Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) as well as continuing commentary on the evil of US drone attacks in Pakistan. The B-side begins with an analysis of the rise of Imran Khan’s PTI by Rahimullah Yusufzai, who remains [...]

Post October 30, Pakistan has found a new hero and a new hope in Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e- Insaf. On that day a much needed third force in Pakistani politics rose in the form of the PTI phoenix in front of mammoth crowds at Minar-e-Pakistan. The PTI rally at was a slap in the face [...]

April 2011′s B-side begins with deserved focus on one of the greatest Pakistanis to have graced the country, Abdul Sattar Edhi. The remainder of the B-side is devoted to that migraines of migraines, namely Pakistan-US relations. April 2011′s B-side contents include: • The Day I Met Abdul Sattar Edhi, A Living Saint by PETER OBORNE [...]

This short post simply wishes to praise Imran Khan for his historic dharna against US drone attacks this past weekend. The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has given meaning to the all too easy words of condemnation against drone attacks by its sit-in that suspended the NATO supply line to Afghanistan. The crowds who attended the sit-in deserve praise, although the [...]

January 2011′s B-side is Salman Taseer-centred and is at its core, an exercise in Pakistani introspection. All of the article authors are Pakistanis writing on Pakistan, indeed such introspection is necessary  if Pakistan is to make any progress in the years ahead and has come about after the brutal killing of Salman Taseer. The first two articles focus [...]

Imran Khan and his politics is a source of many a debate, derision and division. That said, Imran Khan was, is and will always be a living legend and one of the greatest Pakistanis to have graced the  land of the pure. Such praise is richly deserved chiefly due to Imran Khan’s charity work in establishing the Shaukat Khanum [...]

The Gaza genocide is made the key focus of January’s B-side. Imran Khan’s letter to President Obama is the second key focus with Kashmir becoming the third key focus for this month’s B-side. January’s B-side contents are: The Gaza Genocide by WASIM ARIF Imran Khan’s Open Letter to President Obama by IMRAN KHAN David Miliband’s [...]