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Bhutto and the lure of easy solutions

by Mathew on December 27, 2007 · View Comments

This isn’t a political blog, so I’m not going to go into a huge amount of detail on the completely unsurprising (but still saddening) assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto. But I will note that I found out about it first from Twitter — where online friends such as Muhammad Saleem, as well [...]

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"Live-blogging" a military operation in Pakistan

by Mathew on July 4, 2007 · View Comments

This is fascinating: from BoingBoing.net via Sean Bonner comes a link to a blog in Islamabad that has been reporting live on the capture of a radical Islamic leader who tried to escape — disguised as a female relative of some young women — after the bloody siege of a mosque: Update: 2:40 1. 600+ [...]

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