Tag: bhutto

A politician is elected to the country’s apex executive office. He faces grave corruption allegations during his first term. However, ...

With help of social media, a political protagonist has polarised the national political discourse, injecting the poison of irrational hatred ...

General Pervez Musharraf held the dubious distinction of following in the footsteps of military dictators Ayub, Yahya and Zia. Like ...

Soon after toppling the second Nawaz Sharif government in October 1999 in a military coup, General Parvez Musharraf posed for ...

Pakistan and Bangladesh are two countries in the South Asian region. Once upon a time, today’s Pakistan and the former ...

Sheikh Mujib Ur Rahman was at once the most iconic, controversial, hated and loved political leaders of Pakistan. Born on ...

In what seems like a page out of a dystopian novel, Pakistani women are no strangers to abuse and toxic ...

It is a well-settled principle of human history that rapid change can only be brought through sustained struggle, sacrifices and ...

The famous Marxist, late Meraj Muhammad Khan, once told me that he wept when Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Z.A. Bhutto ...

Khalid Chaudhary was a progressive writer and intellectual. He was also one of the founding members of the Pakistan People’s ...

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the son of the late Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and President Asif Ali Zardari, has started ...

History is the greatest evidence and witness. Therefore, the victors and powerful are always scared of it. They love it ...

Rawalpindi, 27 December 2007 – Benazir Bhutto, the iconic twice elected Prime Minister of Pakistan, was brutally assassinated by the ...

Just 24 years after its birth, Pakistan suffered the most tragic and horrific shock of its short history when the ...

Strong nations rely on their political, judicial and military leadership to act in good faith for the greater good of ...

An influential Iranian historian of Islamic political thought, Hamid Inayat, had opined in one of his books that Muslims had ...

Pakistani military leaders' decision to remain apolitical is a constitutional anomaly. This decision confirms the military's status as an independent ...

Erasing Histories and the Formation of Narratives When the former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan was ousted in the ...

Since the 1950s, the anti-Ahmadiyya card has been used in Pakistan’s applied and electoral politics for extra milage. Particularly after ...

There was a direct linear connection between Bhutto’s death and my near fatal accident. I will illustrate the principle of ...

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Junior, the grandson of former prime minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, is winning praise  for his ...

The now decade-old tussle between Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Nawaz Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) is a political ...

Nietzsche’s Hammer  Those who romanticise irrationality are convinced that rationality works best when driven by ‘evil’ intentions. To anti-rationalists, passion ...

In August 1965, Pakistan’s 12th infantry division under the command of Major General Akhtar Hussein Malik launched Operation Gibraltar in ...

After taking over the reins of power in 1993, the PPP government under the premiership of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto established ...

Dear Prime Minister, in the not-too-distant future you have to take a momentous decision: the toughest that any Pakistani prime ...