Pakistan: The Real Teetering Domino of the Middle East
Given that even staunch Bush/Cheney supporters now admit colossal blunders in the Middle East, the United States cannot afford a misstep in dealing with Pakistan.
Given that even staunch Bush/Cheney supporters now admit colossal blunders in the Middle East, the United States cannot afford a misstep in dealing with Pakistan.
Shuja Nawaz | Posted 02.22.2008 | Politics
Isn't America supposed to welcome democracy? If so, why does it distrust it in Pakistan?
AP | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 01.22.2008 | Politics
BERLIN — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday the Bush administration will fight efforts to curb billions of dollars in U.S. aid to ...
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 | 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...
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 ...
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...
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. ...
Ari Emanuel | Posted 01.02.2008 | Politics
On the eve of Iowa, here's a thought for helping choose our next president. A simple tie-breaker for those still on the fence. Let's pick someone who can handle a pop quiz where you have to fill in the blanks.
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...
AP | CHRIS BRUMMITT | Posted 01.02.2008 | Home
Pakistani elections will be delayed until Feb. 18 because of violence following the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, authorities said Wednesday, ignor...
New York Times | ERIC SCHMITT | Posted 01.02.2008 | Politics
United States intelligence analysts are not convinced by the evidence offered so far by Pakistani authorities that a militant linked to Al Qaeda was r...
Norman Horowitz | Posted 12.31.2007 | Politics
The best you can say is that President Bush and Mayor Giuliani are among those who just happened to "be there" when a horrid event took place.
Omid Memarian | Posted 12.30.2007 | Politics
Although General Musharraf has condemned this act of terrorism, he must be relieved at the removal of his most serious opponent who repeatedly questioned his legitimacy.
AFP | Nasir Jaffry | Posted 12.29.2007 | Home
Pakistan indicated Saturday it would delay January elections because of turmoil caused by the death of Benazir Bhutto, as a bitter dispute erupted ove...
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.
AP | RAVI NESSMAN | Posted 12.29.2007 | Home
Pakistan rejected foreign help in investigating the assassination of Benazir Bhutto on Saturday, despite controversy over the circumstances of her dea...
AP | MUNIR AHMAD | Posted 12.28.2007 | Home
Pakistan - The Pakistani government said Friday that Benazir Bhutto Bhutto was not killed by gunshots or shrapnel as originally claimed but by a skull...
Reuters | Ellen Wulfhorst | Posted 12.28.2007 | Home
Democrat Hillary Clinton called on Friday for an international probe of Benazir Bhutto's killing and candidates in both parties sparred over foreign p...
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.
AP | Posted 12.28.2007 | Politics
"We have the evidence that al-Qaida and Taliban were behind the suicide attack on Benazir Bhutto," Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz said. Interior Minis...
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Lincoln Chafee | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics