Friday, June 22, 2012
Nawab Mumtaz Ali Bhutto
The Quaid’s deep conviction in the suitability of the confederal system was put to the test on May 16, 1946, when the Cabinet Mission Plan, in a final effort to keep the country united, proposed a confederal system for an undivided ...

Thursday, June 21, 2012
Nawab Mumtaz Ali Bhutto
The winds of change and the revolutionary process of freedom became evident to the British in India with the Indian uprising of 1857. It is perhaps a measure of their sense of the inevitable that even at this stage they prepared ...

Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Nawab Mumtaz Ali Bhutto
There is a saying in Sindhi that ‘to hell with the gold earrings which split the ears.’ Who are the ad nauseum trumpet players of democracy? The answer hits us in the face: They are mainly those who are soaked from head to toe in ...

Friday, August 19, 2011
Nawab Mumtaz Ali Bhutto
The talk of new provinces is the latest fad in the country which is trapped under a totally corrupt and incompetent government in the hands of people who are not fit to run a district. Not only that, but they tricked people into ...

Saturday, August 06, 2011
Nawab Mumtaz Ali Bhutto
It is common practice, at least in rural Sindh, for someone to commit an offence, even murder, and then escape punishment, start a process of self-degradation by pleading, crawling, resorting to multiple recommendations (sifarish), ...

Wednesday, July 06, 2011
Nawab Mumtaz Ali Bhutto
What the nation suffered over the last three years was punishment enough, but it seems that worse lies ahead. Lawlessness which has made lives unliveable, corruption which has brought shame to Pakistan from around the globe and ...

Saturday, April 09, 2011
Nawab Mumtaz Ali Bhutto
We have just witnessed another festival on Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s death anniversary. I use the word festival deliberately because what transpires at the family graveyard of this branch of the Bhutto family, at Garhi Khuda ...

Saturday, September 25, 2010
Nawab Mumtaz Ali Bhutto
"Jagirdar" and "feudal" are terms which, in this day and age, are being used ad nauseam to disparage and ridicule those connected with producing the food on which their tormentors fatten themselves. This raises the question of who, ...

Saturday, June 19, 2010
Nawab Mumtaz Ali Bhutto
What became of the promises of roti, kapra aur makan and revenge against the murderers of Benazir Bhutto, grounds on which the PPP received a mandate? How much betrayal will the people tolerate while allowing themselves to be ...

Monday, November 02, 2009
Nawab Mumtaz Ali Bhutto
Readers will recall my repeated warnings that a man with Zardari’s reputation, who has no educational or political background and lacks all the other prerequisites of leadership, will be an absolute disaster in a minor office, let ...