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Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chief Bilawal Bhutto. (Photo: AP)

Waiting for Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

The PTI clinched enough extra seats that made it unnecessary to even reach out to the PPP.

29 July 2018 12:24 AM IST

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (Photo: Dawn)

Zulfikar had left behind a legacy of lost opportunities

There can be little doubt that the manner in which the PPP approached the 1977 election was profoundly problematic.

4 April 2019 12:05 AM IST

In this file photo taken on July 25, 2018, Pakistans cricketer-turned politician Imran Khan speaks to the media after casting his vote at a polling station during the general election in Islamabad. (AAMIR QURESHI / AFP)

Pavan K. Varma | Why did Imran survive the assassin's bullets?

The army's expectation was that once removed the former PM would fade away as others did before him

13 Nov 2022 12:10 AM IST

Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq (Photo: AFP)

The death of a dictator

The tall tales could usually be dismissed out of hand.

16 Aug 2018 2:27 AM IST

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif leaves the premises of the JIT with son Hussain Nawaz in Islamabad. (Photo: AP)

Will Nawaz, the unburied lion, extract his revenge?

Imran Khan once boasted that he had been offered the prime minister-ship by Gen Musharraf.

11 Aug 2017 12:16 AM IST

Sikkim, which became a part of India in May 1976, is the only state which has a demarcated border with China. (Photo: Representational/File)

How the 1962 war has set the tone of Indo-Pak ties

The road to the 1962 war starts in Tibet in fact, it starts because of the road to Tibet.

11 July 2017 4:47 AM IST

Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq (Photo: AFP)

How the 1977 Zia takeover sealed fate of Pakistan

Many of us back then saw Zia's unrepresentative incumbency as a temporary phenomenon that would wear off once he...

6 July 2017 5:50 AM IST

The announcement charts a way forward for Pakistan after the Supreme Court ousted Sharif on Friday following an investigation into corruption allegations against him and his family. (Photo: AFP)

Pak govt or family enterprise: Sharif passes baton to brother

The move maintains the eponymous Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party's hold on power, with Nawaz continuing to...

31 July 2017 10:10 AM IST

Nawaz Sharif said that CPEC has emerged as core and flagship project of Chinas One Belt and One Road (OBOR). (Photo: AP)

Blood: The sixth river of Punjab

The river's banks are murder and mayhem. Pakistan's first PM Liaquat Ali Khan was assassinated in Rawalpindi in 1951.

28 July 2017 1:00 AM IST

Pakistan Peoples Party of former president Asif Ali Zardari had opposed the courts but extended its support after some of its proposals were accepted. (Photo: AP)

Zardari aide in court over missing brother

Ismail Mari pleaded with the Sindh High Court to issue an order to recover his missing brother.

11 April 2017 2:04 AM IST