“The Moving Finger writes; and having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it” (Rubaiyat, Omar Khayyam) Chairman of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, made a startling announcement on landing in Karachi,
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Marking Half Century Of An Unacknowledged Genocide
In 1971 Pakistan’s military hawks sitting in Rawalpindi’s General Head Quarters (GHQ) planned a genocidal campaign on East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) in which was supposed to be executed immediately. The brutal campaign was launched exactly 52 years ago – on the night of 25 March with full ferocity and is believed
