Benazir Bhutto: What if she had not been killed?

Posted on December 27, 2008
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Adil Najam Benazir Bhutto was assassinated one year ago today, December 27. I remember being in utter shock when I first heard that news. In some ways I am still in shock. Indeed, as our wall of newspaper covers showed, the whole world was in shock. That shock, I believe, is also still alive. And, […]

Signs of a Brewing Storm

Posted on December 22, 2008
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Jauhar Ismail The photo to the left shows stormy clouds gathering over Islamabad on December 16, 2008. Today, which is just six days later from when this photo was taken, I believe there is another storm brewing in Islamabad on its political and foreign relations front. Not withstanding the conspiracy theories still circling around in […]

Is Urdu Press Waking Up To Reality?

Posted on December 21, 2008
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Owais Mughal and Jauhar Ismail The division of opinion between the column writers of Urdu and English press in Pakistan has been quite stark in the past few years. May be we are generalizing the above statement too much but some degree of truth is not hidden from any regular reader of both Urdu and […]

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