Benazir Bhutto
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Is Pakistan primitive?
An intolerant minority sets the menu for everyone, in a comment thread and in a country. For two months we moderated so carefully against Islamophobia that we let the confinement…
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Why Balochistan Is Not Kashmir
X.T.M argues Balochistan should not be equated with Kashmir, which is an internationally anchored dispute through UN resolutions, treaties and wars, while Balochistan is legally an internal matter, though he…
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Pakistan: The Realpolitik State
The author argues that Pakistani society leans on hierarchy, patronage and deference and, as a state forged through separation, has little distinct culture beyond India and Iran. He grants that…
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Browncast: Ambassador Kamran Shafi on Benazir, Nawaz Sharif, Military Rule, etc
Omar Ali talks to Kamran Shafi, a former army officer, columnist, Benazir Bhutto’s press secretary and ambassador to Cuba, about Benazir, Nawaz Sharif and military rule, with a voice-message postscript…
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Accents of Leaders
X.T.M laments that South Asian leaders no longer speak English as Nehru, Jinnah and Bandaranaike did, and adds a news item on the last Mughal heiress in a Calcutta slum…
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LV on Indira
X.T.M, after a Vidhi-prompted video of Indira Gandhi, calls her India’s best prime minister, credits her grit with breaking East Pakistan from Pakistan in 1971, and contrasts her charisma, intellect…
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The Conundrum that is Husain Haqqani
A reader profile of Husain Haqqani, requested by AnAn, uses public information and two witnesses to argue he is hard to call an opportunist since many Pakistani politicians changed course,…
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Persian Princess of Pakistan; Benazir Bhutto
X.T.M, who shares Benazir Bhutto’s half-Persian background, repeats an excerpt about her childhood in a household where her father’s Persian mistress held pride of place, and speculates on its effect…
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Shaheed Rani. Hasan Mujtaba’s Poem for Benazir Bhutto
Presents the author’s own translation, made with the poet’s approval, of Hasan Mujtaba’s Urdu poem on Benazir Bhutto’s assassination on 27 December 2007, whose refrain says that a Bhutto will…
