Following the tragic assassination of Benazir Bhutto last December, McCain struck the same note his top adviser Charlie Black recently made.
Shuja Nawaz | Posted 03.24.2008 | Politics
Pakistan has to play catch up economically and politically. Parliamentary democracy offers it a great chance. Will the politicians live up to these challenges? The time for celebration will be short.
Derek Flood | Posted 02.18.2008 | Politics
Lahore's The Mall was eerily quiet as the polls opened this morning on the national and provincial elections that could budge the country's long-stalled plebiscite.
Naomi Wolf | Posted 02.15.2008 | Politics
The United States is doing very little to help the situation in Pakistan and may well be making it worse.
Walter Isaacson | Posted 02.12.2008 | Politics
Benazir Bhutto's new book, completed just before her assassination this past December, is both an intensely personal and a profoundly intellectual assessment of Islam and its relationship to the West.
Washington Post | Candace Rondeaux | Posted 02.08.2008 | Politics
Scotland Yard investigators have concluded that Paksitani opposition leader and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto was killed by the impact of a sui...
Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 01.25.2008 | Politics
The real war against Al Qaeda has yet to be fought where it counts -- in Pakistan and in an area where Musharraf has lost virtually total control.
Harry Shearer | Posted 01.18.2008 | Politics
Pakistan has lingered at the outer edges of our awareness, even though that country did indisputably meet the three criteria Bush invoked for the invasion of Iraq.
Shuja Nawaz | Posted 01.16.2008 | Politics
Pakistan's transition for democracy may be marred by the lack of a transnational leadership that can hold together the forces that threaten the unity of the federation.
AP | ASHRAF KHAN | Posted 01.14.2008 | 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. ...
Michael Shaw | Posted 01.11.2008 | Politics
Condi imagined a Bhutto-Musharraf dream team. It was Rice who convinced Bhutto to return to Pakistan and team up with Musharraf.
AP | K.M. CHAUDHRY | Posted 01.10.2008 | 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...
Frank Dwyer | Posted 01.08.2008 | Politics
Are there enough top detectives left in London to race out the Strait of Hormuz and find out what really happened?
Shuja Nawaz | Posted 01.07.2008 | Politics
Musharraf has often spoken about restoring democracy to Pakistan. But as Bhutto texted me about one of his statements before her return to Pakistan: "What people say and what happens r two diff things."
Patt Morrison | Posted 01.07.2008 | Politics
Not only has he solved the whodunit of the death of Benazir Bhutto right there on 60 Minutes, he has also cleared up a persistent and troubling question of American history.
Levi Asher | Posted 01.06.2008 | Media
Why on earth do our television reporters refuse to report to American viewers what everybody else in Pakistan and around the world believes to be true?
Robert Brustein | Posted 01.06.2008 | Politics
Fears are increasing that, with all this expectation embodied in a single man, Obama might fall victim to an assassin's bullet.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.06.2008 | 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 ...
Tom Hayden | Posted 01.06.2008 | Politics
Barack needs to back off. There is no more reason to rush to war in Pakistan on the basis of uncertain evidence than there was in Iraq in 2002.
AP | SADAQAT JAN | Posted 01.06.2008 | 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 01.05.2008 | 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 01.05.2008 | 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...
Shuja Nawaz | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics
History indicates that Pakistan's governments have evaded or mishandled the search for truth in all major terrorist attacks and subsequent deaths, including those of heads of government and state and the Pakistan army.
Ashley Van Buren | Posted 01.04.2008 | Living
I talked with Salman Ahmad, the "Bono of South Asia," just after his performance at the Nobel Peace Prize concert and as tragedy struck in his homeland with the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.
Wall Street Journal | PETER WONACOTT | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics
Just after night fell at a campaign rally last Thursday, conservative Islamist politician Khalid Waqar heard the news: Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's best...
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Max Bergmann | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics