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Cut-price foreign reporting

Embattled Yousuf Raza Gilani, indicted last Monday in Islamabad, has for several months now claimed he is Pakistan’s longest-serving prime minister. This only actually became, strictly speaking, true last Wednesday (when he pipped Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto for his 1422 days), though this didn’t stop the Guardian, FT, and Washington Post from credulously parroting the line all the same.

By Padraig Belton | Notebook - A selection of Independent views -, Opinion | Tuesday, 21 February 2012 at 10:40 am