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‘I am the destiny’

Eqbal Ahmad

  • The Terrorist Prince: Life and Death of Murtaza Bhutto by Raja Anwar, translated by Khalid Hasan
  • Memoirs of a Bystander: A Life in Diplomacy by Iqbal Akhund
  • Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Pakistan by Rafi Raza

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Eqbal Ahmad, a freelance writer, lives some of the time in Islamabad and some of the time in Massachusetts.

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