{"id":401,"date":"2007-09-02T18:54:44","date_gmt":"2007-09-02T17:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2007\/09\/02\/back_to_democracy_back_to_bhutto"},"modified":"2007-09-02T18:54:44","modified_gmt":"2007-09-02T17:54:44","slug":"back_to_democracy_back_to_bhutto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2007\/09\/02\/back_to_democracy_back_to_bhutto","title":{"rendered":"Back to democracy, back to Bhutto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title = \"A friend of feudalism | Guardian daily comment | Guardian Unlimited\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/comment\/story\/0,,2160247,00.html\">A friend of feudalism (the Guardian, yesterday)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>William Dalrymple (of White Mughals fame) on the depressing spectacle of Benazir Bhutto trying to cut a deal with Busharraf in order to get back in power in Pakistan.  This is apparently what &#8220;democracy&#8221; means.  He points out that Benazir&#8217;s first term of office was notorious for incompetence, corruption and brutality, far more so than the early period of Busharraf&#8217;s.  (More: Umar Lee <a href=\"http:\/\/umarlee.com\/2007\/08\/29\/auntie-entity-is-coming-back\/\">[1]<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/umarlee.com\/2007\/08\/31\/no-deal-with-auntie-entity\/\">[2]<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/umarlee.com\/2007\/09\/01\/nawaz-gets-into-the-pakistani-fray\/\">[3]<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of feudalism (the Guardian, yesterday) William Dalrymple (of White Mughals fame) on the depressing spectacle of Benazir Bhutto trying to cut a deal with Busharraf in order to get back in power&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-muslim_world"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-6t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}