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Note: Today is the 3rd anniversary of assassination of Benazir Bhuttto. Here once again is the piece written on her demise. Whoever killed her, snuffed out the last major representative of liberal/moderate voices in Pakistan. By Anwaar Hussain I met Benazir. I spoke to her. Some twenty years back, she became the first woman elected [...]

By Anwaar Hussain The Making The high priests of Taliban follow a rigid curriculum in brainwashing young men to become suicide bombers. After all, replacing an individual’s intrinsic love of life with death worship, propelling him on a path that ultimately ends up with him in a suicide jacket ready to become a bloody statistic, [...]

By Kamran Shafi In the very recent past there has been some sanctimonious, and quite sickening, hectoring in a section of the press to the effect that Pakistanis were not standing behind their army like other people. Such as the Americans tying yellow ribbons in honour of the soldiers fighting ‘wars’ in Iraq and Afghanistan. [...]

Post-feminist backlash – or new dawn for equal rights? By Rachel Cooke   Sometimes, you can’t see the wood for the trees. When I tell Georgina Baillie, the young woman at the centre of the scandal now known predictably as ‘Sachsgate’, that I think what happened to her was the result of good old-fashioned misogyny, [...]

By Pervez Hoodbhoy DRONES, machine and human, have drenched Pakistan with the blood of innocents. On the one side are US-made drones such as the MQ-1B General Dynamics Predator – a remote controlled, self-propelled, missile-bearing aerial system. On the other side are the low-tech human drones, armed with explosive vests stuffed with ball bearings and [...]

81 percent of respondents in a most recent New York Times/CBS News poll believed ‘things have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track,’ up from 69 percent a year ago and 35 percent in early 2002. By Anwaar Hussain After handing over the reins of their country to the most disastrous administration in the [...]