This is Pakistan's fight but it has bearing on all of its allies and partners. Tolerating a Pakistan security structure that is unwilling to exploit every lead to shut down internal spies is not an option.
ANI | Posted 09.29.2009 | World
LAHORE: Ex-Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf has admitted that his government's secret agreement with the Taliban had backfired. The Taliban had mi...
BBC NEWS | Posted 11.15.2009 | 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...
Maria Tirmizi | Posted 08.31.2009 | Home
The Supreme Court of Pakistan has declared the November 3rd, 2007 actions of former president Pervez Musharraf extra-judicial, illegal and unconstitutional.
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...
AP | MUNIR AHMAD | Posted 08.30.2009 | World
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan's top court on Thursday turned down a request to launch a treason case against ex-military ruler Pervez Musharraf, while th...
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.
AP | MUNIR AHMAD | Posted 08.22.2009 | World
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan's top court has summoned former President Pervez Musharraf to explain his 2007 firing of several dozen independent-minded j...
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...
Paul Fitzgerald | Posted 08.15.2009 | World
Whether it realizes it or not, Washington has placed itself in a fight for its life in Afghanistan, just the way the Soviets did.
Asia Times Online | Pepe Escobar | Posted 06.03.2009 | World
Apocalypse Now. Run for cover. The turbans are coming. This is the state of Pakistan today, according to the current hysteria disseminated by the Bara...
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
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.
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...
GroundReport | Posted 04.13.2009 | World
Originally published on GroundReport.com, the global citizen reporting platform. By Imran Schah Islamabad, Pakistan- Police have started to crack d...
nytimes.com | JANE PERLEZ | Posted 04.12.2009 | World
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The civilian government has banned a national protest march and arrested hundreds of political workers , evoking for many Pakis...
The Huffington Post | Chris Nelson | Posted 04.11.2009 | World
Lawyers and opposition political parties to the current Pakistani government, led by Nawaz Sharif, are planning a march from Karachi to Islamabad this...
ibnlive.in.com | Parrull / CNN | Posted 04.10.2009 | World
New Delhi: Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari is facing one crisis after another. Reports on Monday claimed Zardari has been given an ultimatum by ...
Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 04.09.2009 | World
If America once turned on the Afghan allies that helped it defeat the Soviets, many Pakistanis feel, what would stop it from turning on Pakistan?
AP | CHRIS BRUMMITT | Posted 03.28.2009 | World
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan's Supreme Court banned the country's most popular opposition leader and his brother from contesting elections, igniting fre...
Eric Margolis | Posted 03.28.2009 | World
In a stunning historic irony, while U.S. troops and CIA teams were turning over ever rock in Afghanistan looking for Osama bin Laden, the gravest national security threat was on Wall Street.
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.
Jim Arkedis | Posted 01.11.2009 | World
India's military right to pursue the Mumbai attackers into Pakistan remains unquestioned. But if India chooses to exercise that right, it could be disastrous military strategy.
Frankie Martin | Posted 01.09.2009 | World
Americans began to understand tribal culture and tribal codes of honor and hospitality. And they realized that organizations like Al-Qaeda were antithetical to traditional culture.
Steve Clemons | Posted 10.12.2009 | World