Benazir Bhutto Killed

Bhutto Widower Zardari, Pakistan's Newly Elected President, Dogged By Rumors Of Corruption, Mental Instability

ABC | Nick Schifrin | Posted 09.09.2008 | 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...

Bhutto Widower Zardari Sworn In As Pakistan's President

AP | PAUL ALEXANDER | Posted 09.09.2008 | Home


ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Repeatedly paying homage to his assassinated wife, new President Asif Ali Zardari declared Tuesday that he has a comprehen...

Goodbye 'Mush' -- Don't Come Back

Eric Margolis | Posted 08.27.2008 | Politics


Eric Margolis

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.

As Democracy Dawns in Pakistan, Challenges Remain

Shuja Nawaz | Posted 03.24.2008 | Politics


Shuja Nawaz

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.

The Lion, the Arrow and the Bicycle

Derek Flood | Posted 02.18.2008 | Politics


Derek Flood

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.

Musharraf's Playbook is the Same as the Bush Administration's

Naomi Wolf | Posted 02.15.2008 | Politics


Naomi Wolf

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

Scotland Yard: Bhutto Killed By Bomb Blast

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...

Pack Your Bag for Pakistan (October Surprise Anyone)?

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 01.25.2008 | Politics


Amb. Marc Ginsberg

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.

Keeping Our Eye Off the Ball

Harry Shearer | Posted 01.18.2008 | Politics


Harry Shearer

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.

Motorbike Bomb Kills 9 In Pakistan, Wounds Dozens

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. ...

Suicide Bomber Kills Dozens In Pakistan

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...

Inanity Still Rules the Airwaves

Levi Asher | Posted 01.06.2008 | Media


Levi Asher

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?

Protecting Obama

Robert Brustein | Posted 01.06.2008 | Politics


Robert Brustein

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

Why Barack Should De-Escalate on Pakistan

Tom Hayden | Posted 01.06.2008 | Politics


Tom Hayden

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.

Pakistan: US Forces Cannot Hunt Al Qaida, Taliban Militants On Our Soil

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...

Musharraf: Bhutto To Blame For Own Death

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...

Will We Ever Know Who Killed Benazir Bhutto?

Shuja Nawaz | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics


Shuja Nawaz

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.

Islamist Politicians Emerge As Pakistan's Power Brokers

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...

NYT Op-Ed: Bhutto Allowed Extremists Who Killed Her To Flourish

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 ...

What Are the Consequences of Not Doing Doha?

Louise Blouin MacBain | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics


Louise Blouin MacBain

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.

Inappropriate Hottie Rundown: Political Heir Apparents

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...

The Martyrdom of Benazir Bhutto

Parvez Sharma | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics


Parvez Sharma

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.

Pakistan After Benazir Bhutto

Husain Haqqani | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics


Husain Haqqani

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.

Musharraf Suggest Bhutto Partly Responsible For Her Own Death

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...

Bilawal Bhutto: The Bogus Facebook Profile

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. ...