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Posts Tagged ‘Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’

The Last Meeting

By Natasha Suleman • Apr 4th, 2009 • Category: Politics

A speeding jeep. Crowds frozen in fear behind security forces,not knowing the fate of their Prime Minister.Prison gates hastily opened and closed.My mother and I being searched again by jail matrons,first leaving our own prison in Sihala, then again when we arrived at the jail in Rawalpindi.
‘Why are you both here?’my father says from inside [...]



Chasham-Ma-Roshan Dil-e-Ma-Shad (Urdu Article)

By M Mirza • Feb 10th, 2009 • Category: Politics (Urdu)


It’s Not Pakistan of Baitullah Mehsud and Maulana Fazlullah

By Mohsin Sehgal • Feb 5th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Pakistan’s history is the mumbo jumbo of the blunders made by the military dictators and the civilians autocrats. Every region has it’s strategic importance and if you are on the map of earth then you are strategically important. There is nothing weird or conspirational about it. Pakistan’s obsession with becoming the pivot for the region [...]



Waqt Ki Awaz (Urdu Article)

By M Mirza • Jan 7th, 2009 • Category: Politics (Urdu)


Zardari Goes After Bhuttos : Mumtaz Bhutto Arrested

By Rohail Butt • Jan 4th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The brother of assassinated Benazir Bhutto, Mir Murtaza Bhutto was killed along with his close aide Ashique Hussain Jatoi and six other workers and supporters of his party, PPP-SB in Karachi. Right after his assassination, Mumtaz  Bhutto, to whom Zulfikar Ali Bhutto termed as “My Talented Cousin”, made an allegation that Asif Ali Zardari was [...]



Arrest of Mumtaz Bhutto and Peace in Sindh

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Jan 3rd, 2009 • Category: Politics

Sindh, the heartland of Pakistan and the province which produced 70% revenue for the country and which hosts country’s  biggest city Karachi is in the grip of confusion and anger once again, which is steadily rising. Especially in the interior Sindh, the things are quite tense as the Mumtaz Bhutto, the chairman of Sindh National [...]



Profile and Pictures of Mumtaz Bhutto

By Shayan Khan • Jan 3rd, 2009 • Category: Misc

chairman of S.N.F, Sardar Mumtaz Ali Bhutto born on 29th November 1933 in the village of Pir Bux Bhutto district Larkana Sindh, Pakistan. He belongs to a respectable family of Larkana. Before the independence his father honorable Nawab Nabi Bux Khan Bhutto was the member of legislative assembly, and had strong political background.
Sardar Mumtaz [...]



Zardari Playing Bhutto Card

By Salman Mugsi • Jun 26th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Hyperbolic Asif Ali Zardari is breaking all the records of extravagant exaggeration in his bid to strengthen his grip on the throne of Pakistan People’s Party which the fate has put in his lap out of the blue. He knows that the power base of PPP, the interior Sindh is dotty on the name of [...]



Civil Dictatorship

By Muskan Hina • Jun 22nd, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

When Benazir Bhutto was alive, she made herself the life-time chairperson of her party. In her time, nobody dared to utter even a light squeal against her any decision or even a sneeze. She was the only decision maker in her party and her words were like the gospels. Her orders were the ultimate, and [...]



Power Politics of Pakistan

By Altaf Khan • Jun 22nd, 2008 • Category: Politics

For the last 38 years or so, whenever dictators leave this country bruised, either PPP comes forward or PML to prepare the land once again for the new coup. During the dictatorial regimes, these parties hibernate, and when they get a signal from the external powers, they start agitation.
These two parties have come to power [...]