Fatima Bhutto

International Politics

Nation on the verge of a nervous breakdown

• 23 August 2010
• 32 comments

The floods destroying Pakistan’s infrastructure are against a backdrop of corruption, impunity at the highest levels of political life and meaningless independence.

Books

Night of the Golden Butterfly

• 23 April 2010

Asia

Home truths

• 15 February 2010
• 9 comments

Pakistan is far from being the country many of us think. Fatima Bhutto dispels a few myths.

Asia

Obama is part of the problem

• 14 May 2009
• 3 comments

War rages in the North-West Frontier and the poor are embracing the Taliban because they at least fix roads and discipline criminals. But if catastrophe is to be averted in Pakistan it is the corrupt elite who must be confronted

Asia

Missing you already

• 12 March 2009
• 11 comments

Pakistan is at war with itself, with blackouts, corruption and terror attacks. Now there are calls for the return of the reviled Musharraf

Asia

Pleasing Mr Obama

• 19 February 2009
• 6 comments

Seven Pakistani nationals are being held at Guantanamo Bay, but if it keeps the Americans happy, the government in Islamabad doesn't care

Asia

Pilgrimage to nowhere

• 08 January 2009
• 15 comments

A year on from Benazir Bhutto's assassination, Fatima Bhutto visits the family mausoleum and reflects on the poisonous legacy of her late aunt, a woman "without principles"

Asia

Open your eyes, Dave

• 04 December 2008
• 17 comments

In his haste to embrace the new pro-western government of Pakistan, the British Foreign Secretary has ignored reality

Asia

Texts, lies and Zardari-gate

• 30 October 2008
• 39 comments

Pakistan is in crisis, with an economy that has hit rock bottom. Think Zimbabwe, minus the good governance