By Asif Ali Zardari
Despite massive pre-election and election-day rigging, the people of Pakistan voted their confidence in democracy and rejected the forces of dictatorship. The Pakistan People’s Party won a convincing victory, along with the democratic Pakistan Muslim League led by my friend, former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. The party cobbled together a few years [...]
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A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission
PAKISTAN: Election results vindicate chief justice
The voting for the general elections for the National and Provincial assemblies has been completed and the unofficial results show that the political parties who were against the Musharraf regime are now in a comfortable position to form a government. The most [...]
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Kamila Shamsie on the murdered Benazir Bhutto’s posthumous call for democracy and tolerance, Reconciliation
Kamila Shamsie
Saturday February 16, 2008
Guardian
Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West by Benazir Bhutto
336pp, Simon & Schuster, £17.99
There can be few experiences more disquieting than that of reading the opening pages of Benazir Bhutto’s Reconciliation, with its description of her homecoming on October [...]
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