Khan has invoked the ‘foreign hand’ theory. Even if he is to be believed, the prime arbiters of Pakistan’s destiny have always been Pakistanis themselves.
There is so much about democracy which is being bandied around every day that it drives one sick, particularly when this harangue is nothing but a mammoth compilation of blatant lies and deceitful.
Daily Times
July 5, 2021
Since July 5, 1977 till today, 44 July fives have gone down the annals of history leaving permanent marks on the Pakistani politics and history. Since July 5, 1977, Pakistan has been divided between Bhutto’s Pakistan and Zia’s Pakistan.
Bhutto rose from Punjab and swept away Sindh and other parts of Pakistan in the 1970 election after he left the Ayub government. He started with a broken Pakistan when he took over after the fall of Dhaka. More than 90,000 civilian and military prisoners were in Indian prisons. The economy had been devoured by the 1971 war. The governmental structure was hardly on a par with established governments around the world.
March 14, 2021
Shahid Hamid’s Treasured Memories is where the personal, the private, the public and the political mingle and make for absorbing reading
Man in a lifetime is many parts. Shahid Hamid is more than the sum of his numerous parts. His
Treasured Memories is a trove where the personal, the private, the public and the political meet, mix and mingle, and make for absorbing reading. On a personal level, he is a Cantab graduate and barrister; on the private: a son, a brother, a husband, a father, a grandfather and all the relations he mentions; on the public level, a practising lawyer and a former civil servant. On the political level, he was a powerful federal minister, an almost-prime minister and the Punjab governor.