The lever that didn’t kill Benazir Bhutto

Two days after the Bhutto’s assassination Brig. Javed Iqbal Cheema of the interior ministry, govt of Pakistan, in a live press conference told the viewers that it was “the lever of sunroof” which killed Benazir Bhutto. He claimed that this “lever” caused a ‘depressed fratcutre of the skull’ which was the cause of death. Ironically [...]

Bhutto’s death: A dream has vanished

Last night I was passing by the main avenue when I saw some flickering lights in the distant. It was Pakistan peoples party office and the large portraits of Z. A. Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto were wrapped in the pitch darkness of the night. In the foreground were people with candles in their hands. It was a candle light [...]

They have killed the dreams and Benazir Bhutto

December 27, 2007. United nations’ security council is said to meet shortly to talk about the post Bhutto scenario and the developments in Pakistan.  A news report on CNN and BBC just cofirmed.
The whole world is shocked and is grieving Benazir Bhutto, the heir to the legacy of late Z. A. Bhutto.
They killed Ms. Benazir Bhutto [...]

2008: Elections in Pakistan

On November 3rd, 2007 Pakistan became lawless. A state of emergency was declared and the 1973 constitution ceased to work. Basic rights were gone. Judiciary was sacked, ( http://comment.independent.co.uk/commentators/article3132477.ece) and the civil society was stunned. General Pervez Musharraf had declared the state of emergency to combat with the increasing judicial activism in Pakistan. The chief justice of [...]

In heresay we believe

The latest from Islamic republic of Pakistan is the awareness shown by a newspaper columnist that the decayed and dead civil society under the heavy army boots and thick clergy beard has shown signs of a filthy thought process.
Dr. Safdar Mehmood is a retired civil service officer who was very active in writing books about [...]