Helping Pakistan

 Published in Time magazine on April 14, 1997

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PERHAPS BHUTTO IS THE ONLY PERSON IN Pakistan who believes she "helped this country recover twice." Her capacity for self delusion is amazing. Does helping Pakistan mean causing it to be labeled the second most corrupt country in the world, or price increases over three years of 50% to 60% on almost every essential item, or having the value of rupee drop from 25 to 40 against dollar in the same period? I hope she never "helps" Pakistan again.

Shakir Lakhani 

Karachi 

Saddam Hussain

Published in Time Magazine on March 6, 2003

Instead of offering billions of dollars to Turkey for support, the U.S. would be much wiser to use the money to get Saddam and his cronies to leave Iraq and settle in a safe place.

SHAKIR LAKHANI

Karachi