Pakistan Uprising

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...

Al-Qaida And Taliban Now Threaten Pakistan's Survival

Washington Post | Walter Pincus | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics


Radical elements are now a threat to the survival of Pakistan, prompting Pakistani military leaders to recognize that more aggressive efforts are need...

Al-Qaida Commander Moved Freely In Pakistan

Washington Post | Imtiaz Ali and Craig Whitlock | Posted 02.04.2008 | Politics


A Libyan al-Qaeda commander who was killed last week in northwestern Pakistan had lived there for years and, despite a $200,000 U.S. bounty on his hea...

U.S. Commander Orders Plans on Pakistan

Associated Press | Posted 01.24.2008 | Politics


WASHINGTON — The commander of U.S. forces in Central Asia has launched planning for more extensive use of U.S. troops to train Pakistani armed f...

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. ...

Profound Issues Remain as Pakistan Fights its Wars Within

Shuja Nawaz | Posted 01.07.2008 | Politics


Shuja Nawaz

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."

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Pakistan Publishes Photo Of Severed Head Of Bhutto's 'Assassin'

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 ...

Benazir Bhutto Assassinated: Scotland Yard To Help Investigation

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...

Violence Delays Pakistan Elections Until February

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...

US Not Ready To Accept Pakistan's Findings On Bhutto's Death

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...

Pakistan Says Turmoil From Bhutto's Death Could Delay Vote

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...

When I First Knew Benazir

Amy Spies | Posted 12.29.2007 | Politics


Amy Spies

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.

Pakistan Rejects Foreign Help In Bhutto Probe

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...

Pakistan: Bhutto Died From Skull Fracture, Not Gunshots

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...

The Hope for Democracy

Homa Sorouri | Posted 12.28.2007 | Politics


Homa Sorouri

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.

Clinton Calls For Probe Of Bhutto's Death

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...

Bhutto: Is the War of Fog Beginning?

Harry Shearer | Posted 12.28.2007 | Media


Harry Shearer

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.

Who Benefits from Bhutto's Killing?

Joe Lauria | Posted 12.28.2007 | Politics


Joe Lauria

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.

Pakistan After Bhutto: Both a Void at the Democratic Center and the Global center of Islamist Jihadism

Nathan Gardels | Posted 12.28.2007 | Politics


Nathan Gardels

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.

Pakistani Official: Al-Qaida, Taliban Behind Assassination

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...

Benazir Bhutto: A Killing and Three Funerals

Amy Wilentz | Posted 12.28.2007 | Politics


Amy Wilentz

As her father's daughter, Bhutto couldn't obey the ineluctable logic of the new Pakistan: wouldn't stay inside, wouldn't shun the people, wouldn't go back into exile after the first attack.


 

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