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Note: Pro-Taliban political parties like PML N and PTI and their vast and powerful media supporters are frothing at the mouth and gunning for Prime Minister Gillani to disobey the Constitution and the Law and step down.  However, there is little focus on a convicted felon and rogue nuclear arms proliferator, AQ Khan and his intentions to run in [...]

After days of much speculation, the volcano of PM’s contempt case  for not implementing the SC’s ruling in the NRO case,  that was frantically and deafeningly been erupting for days, finally erupted and is being expected to damage, if not burn everything down. Yeah yeah!  We all heard that! Ever since the much-awaited, and for many the [...]

  As a Shia Muslim from Pakistan I am deeply concerned about Pakistani Shia and Sunni targeted by a lunatic fringe of Deobandi Takfiri terrorists. This violence has taken thousands of lives. It threatens to destroy the fabric of Pakistani society, the economy and what remains of the writ of the State.  It is alarming that the society [...]

On the morning of April 4, 1979, the military dictatorship of General Ziaul Haq hanged to death Pakistan’s first popularly elected Prime Minister, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Today is the 33rd anniversary of what turned out to be perhaps one of the gravest judicial and dictatorial crimes in the history of the troubled nation of Pakistan. If you are [...]

In Pakistan, old soldiers just don’t fade away Source: Pakistan Today Haroon-ur-Rasheed recently in a newspaper article fantasised about Imran Khan’s great relationship with General Kayani after becoming Prime Minister in 2013. According to Hamid Mir, when asked about this, Imran’s comments on Kayani were unpublishable (for reasons [...]

Editor's Note: We are pleased to cross post Ali Aftab's article from Pakistan Today.  The writer makes an important observation when he highlights how an "analyst" pointed out the tensions within the Lota-Enhanced PTI that have already emerged; tensions between the Multan heavyweights like Shah Mahmood Qureishi and Makhdoom Javed Hashmi.  The [...]

BABAR AWAN DOESN'T HAVE MY SUPPORT So it would seem today that the party decided to, in all honesty, dig a very shallow grave for itself. Appointing Babar Awan Vice President of the party is not only an insult to the hard work of older members such as Ghazanfar Gul, Aftab Mirani, etc but it also insults the memory of Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali [...]

Editor: We are pleased to cross post this heart felt tribute to Benazir Bhutto by Pakistani-Canadian journalist, Natasha Fatah. This was first published on the CBC news site. The day Benazir Bhutto was killed, is a day I will never forget. I was away from my family, the devastation was overwhelming and I couldn't stop crying. She was a gift [...]

Benazir Bhutto, an iconic personality, an exceptional stateswoman, leader Of Pakistan's oppressed peoples http://youtu.be/QscgYdW2EH8

I have been receiving death, rape, acid throwing threats ever since I appeared in a TV show where I entered into a debate with one Mr. Zaid Hamid and challenged his immensely hawkish narrative about the genesis of Pakistan as well as so many other issues affecting general environment of violence and radicalism in the country. Based on my [...]

It’s a free-for-all! The circus is in town. Tahir-ul-Qadri is back with invaluable suggestions for forming and running a new government. The other usual suspects, to a man, are there too. Suddenly everybody has forgotten that Sipah-e-Sahaba is a banned organisation. The Kashmir jihad may be over but Hafiz Saeed is now determined to teach NATO [...]

Editor's Note: We would like to recommend to our readers this excellent article by Kashif N. Chaudhry, which was originally published in the Huffington Post. It is a succinct analysis of how our fellow Ahmadi countrymen are being persecuted in Pakistan on a daily basis.  In Pakistan today, the Jihadist factory created by the dictator [...]

  FLASHBACK, Lahore, 1977: The early days of the 1977-88 martial law regime, as Pakistan’s first democratically elected prime minister and chairman of the Islamic Summit Zulfikar Ali Bhutto is in the dock on a “murder” charge as the (then) Chief Martial Law Administrator Gen Ziaul Haq goes about pronouncing ZAB guilty on the [...]

Dear editors of  Let Us Build Pakistan Though our memories of Pakistan Peoples Party are not pleasurable enough, but the way it has been plowed by a common adversary, the security establishment and discredited by right wing sycophants in politics, media and judiciary, we still have our hopes from it, if any good can be extradited to [...]

  Source: “Everyone is entitled to his own opinions; he is not entitled to his own facts.” Daniel Patrick Moynihan A Conspiracy theory can be defined as “collection of distorted or misrepresented facts presented to propagate a particular agenda”. Conspiracy theories consist of one or two established facts and a fantasy [...]

In coming days you will find cauldron boiling in the electronic media of Pakistan to see many witch hunters around; trying to baffle the poor and ill informed audience about granting the MFN status to India with all their charms  .  The clarion has been blown by Hamid Mir and of course other will join him soon. Lt.Gen (r) Abdul Qayyum, I do not [...]

   Source Related post: Imran Khan’s Lahore rally offers no hope to Pakistan’s religious and ethnic minority groups There is consistent and irrefutable evidence of Ejaz Chaudhry’s (Vice President and Incharge Youth and Students Affairs of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf) links with sectarian, terrorist [...]

    Dedicated to the students Those who arrived at the gates of the officials Petitioning with open arms for pen and paper. But never came back. Those innocents who, in their idealism, took the fire of dedicated learning in their young hearts and reached where Were being promiscuously distributed the shadows of endless [...]

LUBP wishes its readers a Happy Diwali, a festival which marks the triumph of good over evil, colorful rangolis and firecrackers. This is a festive time for many Pakistani Hindus and all those who celebrate open-heartedness, mirth and joy!  Pakistan is the epicenter of great culture and diversity. Let us embrace and celebrate [...]

Editor's Note: We are pleased to cross post this excellent article for DAWN Blogs by Nadeem Paracha.  Kudos to the Beygairat Brigade for their bold, audicious, subversive and darkly comic song on the prevailing Zeitgiest of the Urban elites. Just when one thought Pakistani pop music had eaten itself and choked on its own self-indulgences, [...]

One of the most well-informed Pakistani music videos: Aalu Anday - by Beygairat Brigade Great song, very smart lyrics and video, most probably inspired by veteran columnist Kamran Shafi's critical articles on the Ghairat Brigade, e.g., The Ghairat Brigades and the truth. In one sentence, the beauty of this song is its critical assessment of [...]

Editor's Note:  The article by a Hazara activist doctor is a good exposure of bigots like Javed Chaudhary.  Javed allegedly writes for a Jihadist publication under a pen name and his anti-Shia bigotry as exposed in this article comes as no surprise.  However, we disagree with Mr. Saleem Javed when he portrays the ongoing genocide of the Hazaras [...]

    The sea breeze. waving over a land called Trieste, yet tidings of home, made less known to us. for a man who marked his footsteps there, as the world salutes his legacy. Dr. Abdus Salam, Dr. Abdus Salam! Who was he? I know not much about you, yet you gave your body to the soil of my [...]

  Editor's Note: We are pleased to cross post  this well-researched debunking of narratives, which in our opinion, have been disastrous for the country.  More power to Abdul Majeed and his blog for writing this and we look forward to more of the same.   The "drawing room gossip" and "urban myths" that many of our urban elites [...]

LUBP authors and affiliates are saddened to report the passing away of Pakistan's legendary qawal Maqbool Sabri.  Qawalli (Sufi devotional music) is at the heart of Pakistan's diverse cultures.  Before the onslaught of the Taliban and their like minded copies, thanks to the policies of Pakistan's military dictators and their civilian [...]

Local Pakistani residents gather around the bodies of Shiite Muslims after an attack by gunmen in Mastung. Related posts: Petition: Silence of Human Rights Organizations on Shia Genocide in Pakistan Some common fallacies often shared by Taliban apologists and (fake) liberals Unloading the entire blame of sectarian terrorism on Saudi [...]

      Editor's Note: We are pleased to cross-post Nadeem F. Paracha's interview to Sobia Ali and Raza Raja Habib from Huffington Post.  The interview is an articulate discussion of politics, sociology and culture.  Such interviews are needed to highight the mindset of Pakistan's youth and we also recommend the following [...]

  Source Maleeha Lodhi’s edited volume is one of the few books that Pakistan military’s Inter-Services Public Relations’ head Maj. General Athar Abbas recommends to his visitors. The value of this book for Pakistan’s armed forces and establishment is that it presents Pakistan as ‘beyond a crisis state’. The basic thesis of the [...]

The gods of fate have a wicked sense of humor. When they want to destroy someone, they make their dreams come true but then soon turn them into nightmares. So they did to the odd couple, the American and Pakistani establishments, who were proud victors of the first Afghan war.   The ex-USSR withdrew from Afghanistan in 1989 and soon [...]

 Source My reaction to Altaf Hussain’s marathon press conference was one of sympathy. Sympathy that I felt not for the beloved leader but for thousands of his otherwise rational followers, who have now been entrusted with the Herculean task of defending gems from his speech, one that featured verses from the Quran as well as songs from [...]

There has been a discussion on Pakistan Press google group on the recent report about a mythical 'endgame' in Afghanistan, produced by Jinnah Institute and USIP. While one has many questions on the report's contents, the discussion was suddenly obliterated to the supposed attack on and/or defense of the authors / participants of the report and [...]

Editor’s note: We are pleased to cross-post this excellent article by Paul Rockower which he wrote for the Jerusalem Post.  Paul visited Pakistan in 2007 and wrote an article for the Jerusalem Post on Pakistan’s more cosmopolitan side.  Let us not forget that before Partition, Karachi was home to a vibrant Jewish community which was said to [...]

Editor's Note: In the aftermath of the Quetta bombings that took place this morning and which have claimed over 25 lives, we are deeply disturbed that our foreign policy elite continue to have an explicit sympathy for Mullah Omar's Quetta Shura.  Are they being utterly naive or deliberately obtuse when they cannot see Mullah Omar's  Quetta [...]

Editor's Note:  The PML N leadership sees no double standards when lecturing PPP about Karachi and putting pressure on it to call the army into Karachi with its own shambolic performance with regards to the Law and Order situation in Punjab.   Given its utter failure to protect its own citizens, shouldn't the Chief Minister of the Punjab, Mr. [...]

  Ludwig von Mises, a leading laissez-faire economist of the twentieth century, wrote that intellectuals shape and form public thought, not the masses. 2800 killings in past eighteen months in Karachi haven’t awoken our intellectuals, Human Rights Groups, Civil Society or Media. They only  cherry-pick issues that suits their airs. To [...]

  Note: FCS stands for fake civil society of Pakistan. In looking at the current civil awards announced by President Asif Ali Zardari, I am amazed as to how an elected government assumes it can reflect public opinion; I thought the army was the only institution that reflects the macho opinion of our martial race. Well, if they really [...]

Today Pakistan celebrates the 64th years of its infancy in world history. Forgive Pakistanis if they seem perplexed as to what exactly are they celebrating. Is it the increasing sense of isolation that Pakistan feels whenever a major wanted terrorist suffices from the land of pure and the world points a “told you so” finger? Or the fact,as has [...]

Editor's Note:  In cross-posting Dr. Taqi's article from Outlook India, we at LUBP stand vindicated on our blunt stance in exposing Fake Civil Society (FCS).  This group of candle-holding Tweeples and  urban elites have failed miserably in even confronting the bigotry of the military establishment spokespeople like Ejaz Haider.  This once [...]

Book: The Redefined Dimensions of Baloch Nationalist Movement By: Malik Siraj Akbar Editor The Balochhal Publishers: Xlibris Subject: Balochistan, Politics, Nationalism Book Reviewed by Arif Jamal Author of Shadow War: The Untold Story of Jihad in Kashmir Most Pakistanis, particularly in Punjab and urban Sindh, know little [...]

Editor's Note: We are publishing the following article by Farrukhzad Ali and would also recommend his earlier article, Shia Hazaras of Queta: Entrapped in deep state’s delinquent and obedient proxies – by Farrukhzad Ali.  Currently, LUBP is relentlessly castigated for sowing disunity amongst the self-annointed "Tweeple Brigade"- the 30 odd [...]