Posts by Cyril Almeida
Bhutto legacy and lack of alternatives equal PPP dominance
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MORE than 40 years after Zulfikar Ali Bhutto electrified interior Sindh with his brand of politics, the...
April 5, 2012
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From the Newspaper
MORE than 40 years after Zulfikar Ali Bhutto electrified interior Sindh with his brand of politics, the...
April 5, 2012
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Hindus of upper Sindh: a bruised community carries on
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“Local politicians, waderas and sardars urge them to hush up the matter, telling them they are...
April 3, 2012
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“Local politicians, waderas and sardars urge them to hush up the matter, telling them they are...
April 3, 2012
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The PPP’s urban problem
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ASIF Zardari is one helluva clever politician. Minimally talented but monstrously successful, he’s...
April 1, 2012
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Downgraded Pakistan
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IT’S been five years since Pakistan first began to look like it may unravel, a sequence of crises that...
March 25, 2012
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The end of Khan?
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THE first pin to the bubble came with Salala. Americans killing Pakistani soldiers en masse: it was a...
March 18, 2012
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Enemies of the state
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SO now we know who got what and who paid whom. We’ve long known what the goal was: bring in establishment...
March 11, 2012
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The unexpected calm
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D-DAY has come and gone and they’re still with us. The assemblies, that is.
March 4, 2012
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Balochistan, the unattributable story
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THE more insightful snippets on Balochistan tend to be unattributable.
February 26, 2012
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The Adiala 11
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STATES sometimes dispose of their citizens. Abduct them, torture them, kill them. All states have done...
February 19, 2012
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Searching for answers
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Every theory seems incomplete, even the conspiracies don’t add up. Memogate is winding down but wait,...
February 12, 2012
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The Swiss conundrum
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WRITE the letter, don’t write the letter, write the letter, don’t write the letter … Sit down with...
February 5, 2012
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The tale of civilian survival
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SOMETHING astonishing has just occurred in Pakistan, in case you missed it: nothing.
January 29, 2012
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A transformative court
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AS the government ducks and weaves and tries to buy time for itself, the ultimate hurdle still looms:...
January 22, 2012
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Decision time
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CONFUSED by what`s happening in Pakistan? Trying to make sense of it all? Think of it this way: what...
January 15, 2012
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Arbiters of public importance
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WHEN the robe starts to wield the pen like a scalpel and the gavel like a sledgehammer, why bother debating...
January 8, 2012
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