One Year of the Zardari Presidency
A year after the election of Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistan's march toward democracy continues, and the decision to elect President Zardari is proving to have been the correct one.
A year after the election of Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistan's march toward democracy continues, and the decision to elect President Zardari is proving to have been the correct one.
Voice Of America | Posted 07.24.2009 | World
The United Nations secretary-general has appointed a three-person commission to investigate the circumstances of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benaz...
Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 06.01.2009 | World
For a while in 2008, international intelligence agencies thought Baitullah Mehsud was dead. Like his cousin-in-arms, Osama bin Laden, Mehsud suffers f...
Stuart Whatley | Posted 03.29.2009 | World
The Pakistani government is quickly becoming overwhelmed in an attempt to keep its house in order. Obama and Clinton should demand increased oversight, or at least transparency, as a condition for further aid to the Pakistanis.
Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 03.14.2009 | Entertainment
Say it ain't so, George -- Syriana was impressive, but your international political credentials are rather outweighed by your international flings. If you really care about Fatima, you'll let her go...
Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 01.28.2009 | World
As the anniversary of Benazir Bhutto's assassination comes and goes, some people in Pakistan have quietly concluded that getting assassinated was the best thing she ever did.
AP | ASHRAF KHAN | Posted 01.27.2009 | World
GARHI KHUDA BAKHSH, Pakistan — Wailing and beating their chests, tens of thousands of people paid homage to Benazir Bhutto Saturday on the one-y...
Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 01.27.2009 | World
For Bhutto's many flaws, she was enormously brave. You cannot for a moment imagine that she did not know she had a target almost tattooed over her heart.
ABC | Nick Schifrin | Posted 10.10.2008 | Home
Asif Ali Zardari completed a meteoric rise from polo-loving playboy to president of Pakistan today, promising not to cede "one inch" to insurgents who...
AP | PAUL ALEXANDER | Posted 10.10.2008 | Home
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Repeatedly paying homage to his assassinated wife, new President Asif Ali Zardari declared Tuesday that he has a comprehen...
Eric Margolis | Posted 09.27.2008 | Politics
Aside from senior army generals, the wealthy elite, and a handful of fat cat politicians, the widely hated Musharraf was left with almost no support at home.
Washington Post | Candace Rondeaux | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Scotland Yard investigators have concluded that Paksitani opposition leader and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto was killed by the impact of a sui...
AP | ASHRAF KHAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
A bomb planted on a motorbike killed at least nine people and wounded 52 others Monday evening in Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, officials said. ...
AP | K.M. CHAUDHRY | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
A suicide bomber blew himself up among police deployed outside a court in eastern Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least 22 people and wounding more t...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
In a moment worthy of 'Dewey Beats Truman,' Sunday's Parade Magazine went out in newspapers all across the country with a blaring cover headline: "'I ...
AP | SADAQAT JAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Pakistan reiterated Sunday that it will not let American forces hunt al-Qaida and Taliban militants on its soil, after a news report said Washington w...
CBS | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
The assassination of his chief political rival was her own fault, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf tells Lara Logan in his first one-on-one interv...
Kimberly Brooks | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
Surely after the first suicide bomber targeted her procession upon her return to Pakistan from exile, Benizar Bhutto knew that a possible end was near...
Wall Street Journal | PETER WONACOTT | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Just after night fell at a campaign rally last Thursday, conservative Islamist politician Khalid Waqar heard the news: Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's best...
New York Times | WILLIAM DALRYMPLE | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
WHEN, in May 1991, former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi of India was killed by a suicide bomber, there was an international outpouring of grief. Recent ...
23/6: News You Can Misuse | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
The new leader of Benazir Bhutto's political party (PPP) is none other than her 19-year-old son, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari. The teen, whose grandfather a...
AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
Musharraf said he also reached out to British investigators for assistance to dispel accusations that Pakistan's military or intelligence services wer...
Huffington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Update: A Facebook profile claiming to be one of Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's son, Bilawal Bhutto Zadari has been labeled a fake. ...
London Times | David Byers | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
The Pakistani Government today published a picture of what it said was the severed head of the suicide bomber who killed Benazir Bhutto and offered a ...
AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said Wednesday that he had requested a team of investigators from Britain's Scotland Yard to assist in the invest...
Farahnaz Ispahani | Posted 11.10.2009 | World