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Fresh peas – Musharraf update 15 Sep 2009 | 09:34 am
It’s been known for a while that Musharraf, post-Supreme Court summons, is staying in digs in London’s Edgware Road. The Guardian’s Declan Walsh last week tracked him down for an interview, finding h...
Clip: ZA Bhutto and the Baloch 11 Sep 2009 | 11:55 am
Excellent historiography over at Grand Trunk Road on the circumstances that saw Balochistan’s first provincial government dismissed within ten months. A must read: It is not surprising why the action...
The Americans are coming – Blackwater and really, really bad journalism 10 Sep 2009 | 12:17 pm
It’s not news that Pakistanis are cynical about America’s involvement in the region. Back in August an Al Jazeera poll found 59 per cent of people believed the US to be more of a threat than the Talib...
Saad Khan 2 Sep 2009 | 11:27 am
On the night of November 15th, 1986, viewers of BBC1 were treated to an eerie announcement that the Late Late Breakfast Show – a mid-80s vehicle for professional creep Noel Edmunds – was cancelled....
Baluchistan: An Introduction 17 Aug 2009 | 11:34 am
While many Pakistani’s celebrated Independence Day last Friday, the western province of Baluchistan was reeling from two attacks. A policeman was killed in Hub when a bomb on a motorbike planted at a ...
Clip: British FCO man lobbies for Mushy? 16 Aug 2009 | 02:17 am
I hope this report from the Telegraph isn’t true: Sir Mark Lyall Grant, political director of the Foreign Office and a former High Commissioner in Islamabad, was reported to have visited the former p...
Happy Independence Day, Pakistan 14 Aug 2009 | 10:53 pm
Originally published at Independence.teakbreak.pk. My mum would tell me off for complaining at Christmas – and seeing as Independence Day is a holiday I don’t see why she’d say any different today. ...
Bilawal says if people are naked, clothe them 12 Aug 2009 | 08:52 am
Fans of the Office, Garth Marenghi’s Dark Place and other cringe comedies are in for a treat from the Pakistan People’s Party, as if a 19-year-old inheriting the helm of the country’s most popular par...
Rehman Malik killed in shoot-out with own mouth 11 Aug 2009 | 01:26 pm
Did you hear the one about the Taliban? Yeah, where those two guys shot at each other after they were trying to work out who would run things after their leader was killed? And one of them died? Funn...
Musahrraf’s Exile 7 Aug 2009 | 01:04 am
Does Musharraf carry an Oyster card? Pity the poor Mushy – kicked out of his job by an ungrateful country and almost declared a criminal by the judiciary, he’s now being advised to slum it out in Lon...