Benazir Bhutto Assassination

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.

The United States is doing very little to help the situation in Pakistan and may well be making it worse.

Scotland Yard investigators have concluded that Paksitani opposition leader and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto was killed by the impact of a sui...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Benazir Bhutto's supporters disputed a Scotland Yard finding Friday that a bomb not a bullet killed the ex-prime minister,...

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."

The US and the rest of the world must recognize that the Pakistani military is not the solution to Pakistan's instability, but rather one of its root causes.

Fears are increasing that, with all this expectation embodied in a single man, Obama might fall victim to an assassin's bullet.

If neither the American embassy nor the Musharraf regime could save Benazir Bhutto from death at a public event, it is unclear how successful American special forces will be in the wilds of South Waziristan.

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.

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.

We need to make an effort to understand that with globalization, poor people, and those with different histories and from different cultures are living with us, here, in our garden.

The blood of a martyr is the best solution for the stains of corruption and misgoverning in the part of the world where I come from. Bhutto is assured a greater greatness in death.

Bhutto's assassination could be a setback to populist-democratic forces. But it also has the potential to mobilize strong backlash against the militarist and overly centralized paradigm of the Pakistani state.

Will we continue to send billions to Musharraf, so he can cling to power that he'll eventually lose anyway? Or will we finally decide to do what we should have done years ago -- aid the people of Pakistan in their quest for democratic self-determination?

Ultimately Pakistan, like Kenya, will be the stronger for taking their path alone. The last thing they need is a hectoring phone call from a post-imperial nanny.

That's the quote of a shock trauma expert, puzzling over the ever-more-puzzling case of the assassination -- or bumping into the sunroof lever -- of Benazir Bhutto.

Benazir knew what it meant to be a woman leader in an Islamic state. She seemed to be juggling it all in her psyche and her life.

The day she was assassinated last Thursday, Benazir Bhutto had planned to reveal new evidence alleging the involvement of Pakistan's intelligence agen...

One of the biggest zombie lies is that the people who supported our disastrous invasion of Iraq are the ones best qualified to decide how to clean up the mess they helped create. Hey, no one ever said zombies are logical.

A newly released video of Benazir Bhutto's assassination and an inconclusive medical report raised new doubts Monday about the official explanation of...