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Is this what we want?

The Podcast Something which must have been thought of as a novel intention has not materialised to such. The idea of steering the genesis of a country from scratch in the mould of the Islamic Constitution must have excited many who were hellbent on enforcing God's laws and justice on Earth.  Sadly, 70 years after its establishment, what we see is chaos, killings, vengeance, violence and lawlessness. The head does not know what the team is doing. The tail is working autonomously at a spinal level, and the puppet of the administration is controlled by invisible but invincible strings of which nobody has any clue. Recently, BBC World Service completed a 10-part weekly podcast series which was an investigative journalism piece by a senior correspondence, Owen Bennett Jones, on the assassination of Pakistani's 2007 Prime Minister in waiting, Benazir Bhutto. Jones had had many intimate one-on-one interviews with Bhutto and her family before and after the murder. With a fine ...