Benazir Bhutto - Himal Southasian (Page 2)

Bad weather friends

When two sworn and once-powerful enemies are in trouble, what do they do? Become friends, of course. These are strange times for Pakistan. A military government announces a grassroots democracy

By M. Aurangzaib

/ 1 Oct 2000

DANGER OF DESPOTISM

The biggest threat in recent times to peace and security in the South Asian region was averted by Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's unexpected air dash across the

By Beena Sarwar

/ 1 Aug 1999

Kashmir in Pakistani politics

At the slightest hint of normalisation of relations with India, every Pakistani government is accused of selling out on Kashmir. Yet, as the 1998 elections showed, a political party that

By Zaigham Khan

/ 1 May 1999

IN GOD’S NAME

By now, Pakistanis are used not only to governments coming and going, but also to their using religion to shore up diminishing popularity. Benazir Bhutto's father did it,

By The Editors

/ 1 Oct 1998

Hope in the land of the pure

There is never a dull moment in the Pakistan polity, with what the erudite call "fissiparous tendencies" erupting all over all the time. This was as true during

By The Editors

/ 1 Apr 1998

By mid-December 1997, Pakistani investigators must prove that the money in four Swiss bank accounts frozen in September by the Swiss government, was misappropriated by Benazir Bhutto from the government

By The Editors

/ 1 Dec 1997

Wilting of the People’s Party of Pakistan

At the time of Independence, the political and social elites of Pakistan came from Hindu- and Sikh-dominated urban centres of Punjab, while Muslim politics was dominated by rural feudals, large

By Manzur Ejaz

/ 1 Mar 1997

Care Takers

Democratic decay in most countries in South Asia has suddenly made it fashionable once more to say some pretty (politically) incorrect things in public. Things like: maybe things were better

By The Editors

/ 1 Jan 1997

THE ROT AT THE TOP

Pakistan has the dubious distinction of being the world´s second-most corrupt nation, after Nigeria, according to the findings of the Berlin-based non¬governmental organisation Transparency International (TI). TI´s

By The Editors

/ 1 Jul 1996

KARACHI: IS PEACE HERE TO STAY?

Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto´s government may have bludgeoned Karachi into submission, but independent observers are asking whether the apparent peace is here to stay. It is true that the

By The Editors

/ 1 Jun 1996