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By: Patrick Duplat, Advocate "When they realize you're a Mehsud, they treat you like a suicide bomber who's wearing an explosive jacket." -- A displ...
AP | ISHTIAQ MAHSUD and NAHAL TOOSI | Posted 10.18.2009 | World
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Pakistani soldiers attacked militant bases in the main al-Qaida and Taliban stronghold along the Afghan border Satu...
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.
Posted 06.14.2009 | World
By Andrew Buncombe and Omar Waraich | The Independent Pakistani authorities have ordered a fresh crackdown on a banned charity linked to militants b...
AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 06.14.2009 | World
MARDAN, Pakistan — Members of a charity banned for its alleged links to the Mumbai terror attack have resurfaced in northwestern Pakistan under ...
CQ | Posted 06.12.2009 | World
A retired Pakistani general confided a deep worry to a friend in Washington last week: that some young officers in Pakistan's regular army have become...
AP | NAHAL TOOSI | Posted 05.30.2009 | World
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan's offensive to push Taliban militants from a district near the capital drew little criticism from local politicians and cle...
McClatchy | Posted 05.18.2009 | World
A growing number of U.S. intelligence, defense and diplomatic officials have concluded that there's little hope of preventing nuclear-armed Pakistan f...
New York Times | Posted 04.16.2009 | World
It was a day of rejoicing, of drum playing, and of smiling at strangers. Pakistan's chief justice had just been reinstated after a two-year struggle, ...
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...
IBN | Posted 04.12.2009 | World
Defiant lawyers hit the streets of Pakistan on Thursday, kicking off their Long March in the Punjab province. The march mirrors the protests by lawyer...
AFP | Posted 04.10.2009 | World
The eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Tuesday banned protests and rallies ahead of a planned "long march" by lawyers towards the capital Islamabad, ...
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...
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...
Washington Post | Walter Pincus | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Radical elements are now a threat to the survival of Pakistan, prompting Pakistani military leaders to recognize that more aggressive efforts are need...
Washington Post | Imtiaz Ali and Craig Whitlock | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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...
Associated Press | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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...
AP | ASHRAF KHAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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 03.28.2008 | 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 03.28.2008 | 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 03.28.2008 | 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 03.28.2008 | Home
Musharraf said he also reached out to British investigators for assistance to dispel accusations that Pakistan's military or intelligence services wer...
London Times | David Byers | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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 03.28.2008 | 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...
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Refugees International | Posted 10.29.2009 | World