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The center is the Pak Army, and the central question today is whether the Army, the steel frame of Pakistani society, can hold the line against the rising tide of Islamist radicalism.
nytimes.com | ERIC SCHMITT | Posted 10.29.2009 | World
WASHINGTON - Even as the Pakistani government plays down the American role in its military operations in Taliban-controlled areas along the border wit...
Arundhati Roy | Posted 09.28.2009 | World
What happens now that democracy and the free market have fused into a single predatory organism with a thin, constricted imagination that revolves almost entirely around the idea of maximizing profit?
Saad Khan | Posted 09.22.2009 | World
Pakistan is one of those unfortunate countries where the elite classes have virtually taken over every aspect of life and have left no breathing space for the public.
Lorelei Kelly | Posted 09.15.2009 | Politics
If congressional politics are inside baseball, Newt Gingrich completely upended the playing field. Joe Wilson isn't an accident, he's an outcome.
BBC NEWS | Posted 09.15.2009 | World
Former president Pervez Musharraf says the US military aid given to Pakistan during his tenure was used to strengthen defences against India. The mon...
Madhavi Bhasin | Posted 09.10.2009 | World
Though Dr. Khan is no longer associated with Pakistan's nuclear establishment, his pardon and release could embolden others for indulging in illicit nuclear proliferation activities.
Taimur Khilji | Posted 09.05.2009 | Home
Little or no attention is being paid, however, to what the country has: a vibrant youth, a relatively free media, and a growing business community.
Hisham Wyne | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics
The Supreme Court ruling of the '07 coup as illegal, is the first of its kind in Pakistan's history; a categorical rejection of military rule, with the potential to galvanize the democratic process.
AP | ASIF SHAHZAD and NAHAL TOOSI | Posted 08.31.2009 | World
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan's Supreme Court ruled Friday that the state of emergency former President Pervez Musharraf imposed in 2007 was unconstituti...
Maria Tirmizi | Posted 08.23.2009 | World
The development has historic significance in a country where Martial Law has been imposed four times, each one accompanied by a nod from a submissive Supreme Court.
Huffington Post | Posted 08.22.2009 | World
Under Pakistan's new Cyber Crimes Act, anyone who sends an insult or joke "slander[s] the political leadership of the country" through text, email, bl...
AP | RASOOL DAWAR and MUNIR AHMAD | Posted 08.17.2009 | World
MIR ALI, Pakistan — Pakistani fighter jets flattened a suspected Taliban hide-out in the northwest early Saturday, killing six associates of a t...
Richard Valeriani | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics
Obama makes first stop on trip in Saudi Arabia, saying he wanted to visit place where "Islam began." Does not mention it's also place where 9/11 began.
Damian Murphy | Posted 06.05.2009 | World
A strong democracy in Pakistan is vital to U.S. interests. The best protectors and promoters of democracy in Pakistan have been its civil society and NGO community.
Huffington Post Citizen Journalist | Peter Holley | Posted 05.30.2009 | World
By Peter Holley, Huffington Post Contributor The two men on the television screen trotted across a grassy roundabout as they unleashed staccato bur...
Rob Asghar | Posted 05.17.2009 | World
The biggest reason that Pakistan is relevant is because it has somewhere between 50 and 90 nukes, and the powerful army has many leaders who sympathize with the Taliban
GroundReport | Posted 04.23.2009 | World
Published by GroundReport.com, a global citizen news platform with over 4,000 international reporters. By Imran Schah Lahore-- Journalists across th...
Anis Shivani | Posted 04.17.2009 | World
Engaging the Muslim World exposes the fallacies of recent myths constituting Islam Anxiety, and offers the first real alternative course of pragmatic engagement.
Wajahat Ali | Posted 04.17.2009 | World
The U.S., which provided support to General Zia and Musharraf's dictatorships, should use its diplomatic resources to force the reinstatement of Chief Justice Chaudhry and the independent judiciary.
Farahnaz Ispahani | Posted 04.16.2009 | World
With the issue that divided liberal democratic forces for several months settled, Pakistan can now focus on its real problems. Let it be said that in March, 2009 we chose democracy over mob rule.
Financial Times | Posted 04.16.2009 | World
Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhary's return as chief justice of Pakistan's Supreme Court, two years after his dismissal by Pervez Musharraf, the then militar...
Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 04.13.2009 | World
The political and popular strife in Pakistan continues to escalate as police and government security officials attempt to stymie the rising tide of an...
Farahnaz Ispahani | Posted 04.03.2009 | World
What America did on November 4, and consecrated on January 20 should prompt us Pakistanis to look inside ourselves and ask if Pakistan would be better or worse off with a system like America.
Stuart Whatley | Posted 03.29.2009 | World
The Pakistani government is quickly becoming overwhelmed in an attempt to keep its house in order. Obama and Clinton should demand increased oversight, or at least transparency, as a condition for further aid to the Pakistanis.
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Dr. Charles G. Cogan | Posted 11.04.2009 | World