Pakistan Elections
Apr 8 2008, Huma Imtiaz

He may have only been hit by a shoe, but the MQM boycott of the Sindh Assembly proceedings after ex-Chief Minister of Sindh Arbab Rahim was assaulted by an alleged PPP worker has highlighted a bigger problem: the air of national reconciliation which..

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