Following the tragic assassination of Benazir Bhutto last December, McCain struck the same note his top adviser Charlie Black recently made.
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.
Reuters | Posted 01.11.2008 | Politics
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Thursday urged President George W. Bush to consider cutting aid to Pakistan unless it restores full civil rights ...
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.
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."
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...
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...
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.
Robert Scheer | Posted 01.02.2008 | Politics
This time the blowback price of our incessant meddling could prove quite high. Even Tom Hanks can't put a pretty face on that one.
Harry Shearer | Posted 01.01.2008 | Politics
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.
Laura Liswood | Posted 01.01.2008 | Politics
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.
Stacey Lawson | Posted 12.31.2007 | Living
There is a necessary reckoning, a collective grappling and grief, which accompanies the assassination of a powerful public figure like Ms. Benazir Bhu...
Noel Irwin Hentschel | Posted 12.29.2007 | Living
It was a blessing for me and a blessing for America to call Benazir Bhutto "Friend". She sacrificed her life for the future of her country and for the hope of a better world for us all.
Mohammad Omar Sharifi | Posted 12.29.2007 | Politics
Bhutto's stand against the religious extremists made her the only hope for more than one third of the electorate who strongly opposes Musharraf's policies, army rule and religious extremism.
Amy Spies | Posted 12.29.2007 | Politics
When I first knew Benazir Bhutto, it was not as the larger than life 'Antigone' tragic figure she became but rather as a fellow undergraduate at Harvard College.
Ellaha Shaheen | Posted 12.29.2007 | Politics
Pakistan's internal instability is not only unfavorable to the country, but also critical to the neighboring country Afghanistan. One of the direct effects of Pakistan's internal instability will be sensed in Afghanistan.
Homa Sorouri | Posted 12.28.2007 | Politics
Bhutto's death has aggravated the spreading extremism across Pakistan and will destabilize the region, affecting Afghanistan, Iran and India. Any insurgency in the region will reverse all that has been done in Afghanistan.
Kim Mance | Posted 12.28.2007 | Politics
Whereas some leaders send our young men and women to fight while they do aerial and virtual assessments, Benazir Bhutto put herself in peril on the ground to speak out against violence and terrorism.
Lynda Obst | Posted 12.28.2007 | Politics
Watching the pundits talk and the candidates spin, makes me realize that Pakistan is like the movie business: a real pro admits nobody knows anything.
Steven Weber | Posted 12.28.2007 | Politics
Assassinations, beheadings and torture are once again familiar rituals and routinely used terms in our modern, evolved, supposedly enlightened culture.
Harry Shearer | Posted 12.28.2007 | Media
You don't need to be a CSI viewer to know that the accounts of her death don't mesh very well. How to untangle all this? An autopsy. Uh-oh.
Joe Lauria | Posted 12.28.2007 | Politics
With her murder Musharraf has had his chief rival removed and he can resume his authoritarian rule with the Americans off his back. Musharraf has played America brilliantly.
Nathan Gardels | Posted 12.28.2007 | Politics
The day after 9/11, Bhutto told me already then she had received intelligence that she was the "next target" of Al Qaeda after they had assassinated the Afghan resistance leader of the Northern Alliance.
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Max Bergmann | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics