Fatima Bhutto (Sindh)
Fatima Bhutto was born on 29th May, 1982 in Kabul, Afghanistan where his father Mir Murtaza Bhutto (Late) was living in exile. She is the niece of the former Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto (Shaheed). She got her early education in Damascus. Syria. In 1993 she came to Pakistan along with her mother [...]
I vouch for change.
I vouch for educating the masses; education that corresponds to awareness of the fundamental rights that every citizen has by virtue of the constitution regardless of how distorted and amended it appears over paper.
I vouch for a people who will not allow feudalism to influence their choice and will stand up against injustice.
I vouch for a people who will not come out on the streets just because they loved the fiery speeches of a leader and the fake promises made in them only to be let down and to reinstate him as their chief just because there was no other representative to elect.
I vouch for better retrospection and the importance of not forgetting what history has taught us.
With a much more informed media and a decidedly less partisan judiciary with a want to be more independent, we should spread awareness and consequently use, our rights to freedom of expression and association. To continually remind our leaders, that they rule but only to serve.
Well before the elections of 18th February, even before the gruesome assassination of two-time Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, there were very strong and tangible signs of political maturity in Pakistan, and that is what forced a military dictator to hold the elections in the country after an iron rule, and that is without any [...]
President of Pakistan with unlimited powers, Co-chairman of Pakistan People’s Party, Commander in chief of the armed forces, Manipulator of Prime Minister. Moreover, Asif Ali Zardari has got his loyal and trusted cronies at all the top posts of the country, and he virtually controls all the institutions in bureaucracy, judiciary, parliament and has got [...]
Do we not know the personality of the fellow nominated for the highest post of government?
Is the fact hidden that he was involved in the Alleged killing of a sitting member of the provincial assembly and the brother of his wife the Former Prime Minister of Pakistan?
It was him that has been numerous times called [...]
Last night when I was itching in the queue outside Cinepax, Rawalpindi to get tickets to watch an American flick, I overheard a black-ticketer confiding merrily to one of his buddy that now he too is eligible for the president and a day would come soon, though he is afraid that he not a graduate [...]
Years after years, government after governments, Martial laws after martial laws, the people of Pakistan have seen with agony and disappointment the failures, corruptions and prevaricated promises of their politicos and tyrants and now they have abondoned almost all of them, including the religious parties.
Pakistani people are long questioning their actual say in the state [...]
The efforts to strengthen and consolidate the democracy only got momentum after the peaceful departure of General (r) Pervez Musharraf. The very reason that there was no bloodshed involved in the bid to remove Musharraf and also there was no harm rendered to Musharraf is suffice to convince all and sundry about the eligibility of [...]
Opposition is an equal partner in the parliamentary system of government as of the treasury benches and the more the opposition is stronger, the more the parliamentary system gets durable and solid provided media, judiciary, and the establishment behave themselves and politicians don’t get way too greedy and knavish.
Pakistan, after the nine years of absolute [...]
