Rawalpindi

View from Pakistan: Today's Blast

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 11.02.2009 | World


Shirin Sadeghi

Pakistani children may be enjoying the break, but most of them know exactly why they can't go to school. I sit stiff as one boy looks up from his video game to tell me the school buses might not be safe right now.

Rawalpindi: Bombing Kills 35 Near Pakistan's Capital

AP | ASHRAF KHAN and SEBASTIAN ABBOT | Posted 11.03.2009 | World


RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — A suicide bomb killed 35 people near Pakistan's military headquarters Monday while a second blast wounded several police,...

Why Terrorists Never Have Gotten Hold of a Nuke and Why the Taliban Won't Be First

Keith Thomson | Posted 10.17.2009 | World


Keith Thomson

Say the Pakistani government somehow falls to the Taliban. With a maniac at the button, cities in the Pakistani arsenal's 2,500-kilometer range could get turned into vacant lots.

Rawalpindi: Suicide Bomber Hits Bus, Kills 6 Near Pakistani Capital

AP | ZARAR KHAN | Posted 08.02.2009 | World


RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — Bombs targeting police and employees of a Pakistani nuclear facility killed two people and wounded scores more Thursday _...

Benazir the Martyr: an Anniversary on the Brink of War

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 01.28.2009 | World


Shirin Sadeghi

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.