Published by GroundReport.com, a global citizen news platform with over 4,000 international reporters. By Kashif Aziz Today was an historic moment f...
GroundReport | Posted 03.14.2009 | World
Published by GroundReport.com, the global citizen media platform covering world news from the ground up. by Shah Zaman Khan PESHAWAR-- Pakistan Na...
Shuja Nawaz | Posted 02.09.2009 | World
As 2007 was lurching toward a messy end in Pakistan, a documentary film suddenly caught much attention inside the country and abroad, especially among the diaspora Pakistanis.
Eric Margolis | Posted 01.30.2009 | World
The proud towers of Wall Street have fallen, disgorging packs of thieves and fraudsters. The mighty US suddenly exposed as the proverbial king without clothes. Uncle Sam is bankrupt.
Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 01.28.2009 | World
As the anniversary of Benazir Bhutto's assassination comes and goes, some people in Pakistan have quietly concluded that getting assassinated was the best thing she ever did.
Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 01.27.2009 | World
For Bhutto's many flaws, she was enormously brave. You cannot for a moment imagine that she did not know she had a target almost tattooed over her heart.
Network 20/20 | Posted 01.23.2009 | Home
During a trip to Pakistan, Network 20/20 conducted more than 60 interviews with everyone from shop owners to militants. Here is what we heard about democracy, God and the Pakistani government.
Eric Margolis | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics
Special for the Huffington Post Eric S. Margolis December 18, 2008 The bitter struggle over the beautiful Himalayan mountain state of Kashmir is the ...
Derek Flood | Posted 04.05.2009 | World
When a local ABC news crew began to interview the Indian family at the next table, I knew the militants had really awoken the... global media in a way their last foray in India did not.
Eric Margolis | Posted 01.05.2009 | World
India's patience is wearing thin. After a decade of terrorist attacks, it still lacks a well defined target for revenge or a way of preventing them.
Eric Margolis | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics
Money, observed the witty British thinker Malcolm Muggeridge, is the homogenized form of power. No more money, no more power. The great imperialist ...
Eric Margolis | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics
Special for the Huffington Post By Eric Margolis October 15, 2008 Afghanistan is in a `downward spiral,' the Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of S...
Eric Margolis | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics
In its final days in office, the White House has engineered an historic nuclear deal with India that Congress, unaware of the import, approved last week.
Brett Ashley McKenzie | Posted 11.04.2008 | Politics
Michael Rovito told me that he chose to approach Sarah Palin because, "I thought to myself that I would regret passing up the opportunity to at least ask a question about her views."
Farahnaz Ispahani | Posted 10.04.2008 | Politics
If Pakistani democracy is to be strengthened and consolidated, it is important that the office of president should be different from that of governor-general as envisaged under the colonial era.
Eric Margolis | Posted 09.27.2008 | Politics
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.
Wajahat Ali | Posted 09.20.2008 | Politics
Rashid: I don't think we should rely on individuals -- this is precisely the mistake the Bush administration made with Musharraf.
David A. Andelman | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics
The UN center in Geneva is devoted largely to humanitarian, social and economic issues -- but it's here especially in the critical human rights area that things have gone so badly wrong.
Matthew-Lee Erlbach | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics
The US is kind of like a big corporation, taking over other companies -- countries -- and rebuilding them in its image. We install leaders, or CEOs, of these countries in the name of "Freedom."
Reuters | Augustine Anthony | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
Counting began on Monday after an election in Pakistan which was far less violent than feared, although it could result in a parliament set on driving...
AP | STEPHEN GRAHAM | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
LAHORE, Pakistan — Sen. Joseph Biden urged Pakistani authorities to ensure that Monday's parliamentary elections are free and fair, warning that...
Washington Post | Candace Rondeaux | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Scotland Yard investigators have concluded that Paksitani opposition leader and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto was killed by the impact of a sui...
AFP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
The US State Department said Tuesday it expected Pakistan's upcoming elections to be tainted and called on all groups, including international monitor...
NY Times | ERIC SCHMITT and DAVID E. SANGER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
The top two American intelligence officials traveled secretly to Pakistan early this month to press President Pervez Musharraf to allow the Central In...
AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — In a shift with profound implications, the Bush administration is attempting to re-energize its terrorism-fighting war efforts in A...
GroundReport | Posted 03.19.2009 | World