As Democracy Dawns in Pakistan, Challenges Remain
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.
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.
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.
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. ...
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...
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.
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...
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.
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...
New York Times | WILLIAM DALRYMPLE | Posted 01.04.2008 | 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 ...
Louise Blouin MacBain | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics
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.
23/6: News You Can Misuse | Posted 01.03.2008 | 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...
Parvez Sharma | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics
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.
Husain Haqqani | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics
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.
AP | Posted 01.03.2008 | 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 01.02.2008 | 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. ...
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 01.02.2008 | Living
Religion is no longer about righteousness but success, no longer about G-d but about us, no longer about selflessness but our own material needs.
London Times | David Byers | Posted 01.02.2008 | 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 01.02.2008 | 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...
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Shuja Nawaz | Posted 03.24.2008 | Politics