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Pakistan is today a nation in total freefall. The optimism and hopes after February 18th seem a distant memory now with the nation now starved of food, power and basic human rights whilst her leaders tour the globe.  Pakistan has been put on autopilot on the road to hell without anyone to steer it away from the multiple internal [...]

The nation must hear and bear the tragic news that the PPP is officially lost at sea, missing and AWOL. Some commentators argue that it still exists in all her glory standing for democracy and the downtrodden and wretched of this land of the pure. If only this was true ….I am saddened to say [...]

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 [...]