The author is a barrister and entrepreneur. Pakistani history and politics holds great interest for him. He can be contacted at: [email protected] A Selfless Patriot: The Life & Times of Khwaja Nazimuddin Mian Iftikharuddin: A Keeper of the Nation’s Conscience The Civilian Autocracy of Ghulam Mohammad Dynastic Politics and the State of Pakistan’s Democracy The […]
Abstract (The main focus of the piece is on Nazimuddin’s innings as prime minister, an insight is also provided into his family history and the remainder of his long and distinguished political career. However, there is no intention to pen a panegyric; on the contrary, the mistakes and errors of judgment made by Nazimuddin are
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by Yusuf Zaman* *The author is a barrister and entrepreneur. Pakistani history and politics hold great interest for him. He can be contacted at: [email protected] The second president of the USA, John Adams, once said, “always stand on principle even if you stand alone”. In Pakistani politics, if ever this adage held true for a
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by Yusuf Zaman* *The author is a barrister and entrepreneur. Pakistani history and politics hold great interest for him. He can be contacted at: [email protected] It is the 17th of April 1953, and the venue is the Governor-General House in Karachi. Prime Minister Khwaja Nazimuddin, arguably among the five foremost lieutenants of the Quaid-e-Azam, has
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Mian Nawaz Sharif’s decision to anoint Maryam Nawaz Sharif as a senior vice president of the PML-N, as well as the party’s chief organizer, is very much in keeping with the dynastic principle that is the most enduring feature of Pakistan’s peculiar brand of democracy. Shahid Khaqan Abbasi’s hair may well have turned grey in
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* The author is a barrister and entrepreneur. Pakistani history and politics hold great interest for him. He can be contacted at: [email protected] It is a cold winter morning in the dying days of 1975 and the scene is the GHQ in Rawalpindi. General Tikka Khan, two months away from retirement after a four-year tenure
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