Pakistan People’s Party
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ZA Bhutto Founds the Pakistan People’s Party in Lahore
Omar Ali reposts Hasan Mujtaba’s Facebook account of how Zulfikar Ali Bhutto founded the Pakistan People’s Party in Lahore, including the origin of its slogan and Bhutto’s later falling-out with…
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Zulfi Bhutto of Pakistan; the dark side chronicles
Reposting an old piece, Asif Javed argues that the legend of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto has outrun the record, and sets out his ‘dark side’, including intolerance of rival power centres…
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Pakistan of the Provinces
A short note on Bilawal Bhutto’s iftar, reading it as dynastic provincial parties pitting themselves against the military-backed Imran Khan, and observing that Baloch and Pashtun parties stayed away while…
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Captain Pakistan and the Faustian Pact
In seven points on Pakistan’s 2018 election, the author argues Imran Khan has made a Faustian bargain with the army, grants vote fudging but welcomes democracy taking seed and the…
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Rex fuit Elizabeth, nunc est regina Iacobus
A link to Bilawal Bhutto’s first interview with the Indian media, which the poster thinks he did quite well in, with a wry remark about his coat.
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Zulfi Bhutto of Pakistan
The author invites readers to share where they were when Bhutto was hanged, and recalls his own day: his mother in tears, a silent Lahore, and a prank with rooh…
