Zainab on a trip to Madison, she meets someone:
“where are you guys from?” I said “Bahrain”
The guy said “OHHHHHHHHH Bahrain”
“You KNOW Bahrain??”
“Yes…”
“Really??” I was still in shock
“Yes, thats where Michael Jackson is, isn't it”
Adil Najam discusses about a recently released list of 8000 persons including the president of Pakistan and 34 Pakistani politicians who have benefited from the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO), promulgated by former president Pervez Musharraf on Oct 5, 2007. This ordinance “grants amnesty to all those against whom politically-motivated cases were registered between Jan 1, 1986, and Oct 12, 1999.”
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