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In the UK an Asian lawyer who was suspended after telling a court security guard she was a ‘friend of Bin Laden’s’ has won a £600,000 record pay out for race discrimination. Halima Aziz (above), made the remark as she arrived at Bradford magistrates’ court in Yorkshire only a fortnight after the September 11 attacks in New York and Washington.

Benazir Bhutto’s husband elected President of Pakistan This is by no means a slam dunk for ‘good guys’. Zardari was a consumate liar and corrupt as hell when Bhutto was in office. From MSNBC: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - The widower of slain former leader Benazir Bhutto will succeed Pervez Musharraf as president of Pakistan after winning a landslide election victory Saturday.

The Zardari conundrum by Raza Rumi ( published in the NEWS) By all statistical estimates and anecdotal evidence, Pakistan’s middleclass has grown during the last decade. The visible manifestation of this historically significant trend was the spontaneous outrage at the dismissal of the chief justice in 2007 and the robust movement that followed.

As I have said before this is not a good idea, but Benazir' Bhutto's widower has been elected president of pakistan. Pakistan needs a fresh honest face to help heal the country. zardari comes with a lot of personal baggage and enemies. I doubt he will bring much stability to this troubled land.

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Jump to Comments IHT/Reuters ISLAMABAD: Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, swept to victory in a presidential election on Saturday. Underscoring the problems he faces, a suicide car bomber killed 16 people in an attack on a police post in the northwestern city of Peshawar.

Benazir Bhutto’s widower, Asif Ali Zardari, was elected president of Pakistan by what the Huffington Post describes as an “overwhelming” margin. He’s bringing in democracy, but this quote from a supporter kind of troubled me: «”We want him to save Pakistan from becoming Iraq and Afghanistan.

Bruce Loudon, South Asia correspondent in Islamabad | September 06, 2008ASIF Ali Zardari, the "unsavoury character" set to become president later today of nuclear-armed Pakistan, declared yesterday that he was "doing it for Benazir (Bhutto)", his wife who was assassinated last December.In an evocative

Jump to Comments by Raza Rumi ( published in the NEWS) By all statistical estimates and anecdotal evidence, Pakistan’s middleclass has grown during the last decade. The visible manifestation of this historically significant trend was the spontaneous outrage at the dismissal of the chief justice in 2007 and the robust movement that followed.

Hasan Mansoor NAUDERO: Every wall and roadside along the dusty country lanes surrounding the southern ancestral home of Benazir Bhutto is adorned with her image. Large, framed portraits of the slain two-time former premier loom large beside the faces of her father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and brothers, Shahnawaz and Murtaza, who also died violent deaths.