"Writing on the Wall" for Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf: Today?

President Pervez Musharraf became infamous for his refusal to hold a ballot last year and for putting leading political opponents, including ex-cricket star Imran Khan and the now late Benazir Bhutto under house...

Kissinger, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Iran's Nuclear Program

Those beating the drum about Iran’s nuclear program should be made aware that the United States has been complicit in the Iranian program since the Ford administration. Then Secretary-of-State, Henry Kissinger offered a ‘strange deal’ to Pakistan that had been...

UN to investigate Bhutto killing

"Pakistan and the United Nations have agreed in principle to set up a UN panel to investigate the killing of Pakistani ex-PM Benazir Bhutto. Pakistan's foreign minister said UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon had...

UN international commission to investigate Bhutto´s death

Month after her death, Pakistan finally brooked agreement with a UN to set up an independent commission to investiga the killing of Benazir Bhutto. " UN will create an international commission to investigate Bhutto killing2008-07-11 01:03:11 - UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N....

Islamist protests after mass death-row reprieve on Benazir Bhutto birthday

Islamists protested today over the decision to reprieve 7,000 death row inmates and change their sentences to life imprisonment in honour of Benazir Bhutto's birthday.This is one of the biggest amnesties in modern...

McCain adviser says terrorist attack would boost campaign

Looks like one of John McCain's advisors let loose a little too much "straight talk" in an article published yesterday in Fortune magazine, saying that a terrorist attack would be a blessing for the McCain campaign....

Of last-minute efforts from Pakistan to stop Bhutto from staging comeback

The will of slain Benazir Bhutto was in her own handwriting and it had three parts: First she paid tribute to her colleagues, then she mentioned her spouse Asif Zardari whom she described as a courageous and the one who fulfils promises while in the third part she advised the...

Pakistan honors slain Bhutto on 55th birthday

Pakistan - Pakistani officials commemorated Benazir Bhutto's birthday Saturday with plans to rename an airport after the slain former prime minister, build a monument on the site of her assassination and grant clemency to thousands of death row inmates. Prime Minister Yousuf...

Pakistan celebrates 55th birth anniversary of slain Bhutto

As the Pakistanis celebrated the 55th birth anniversary of slain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on Saturday, first after her assassination in December last year, Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani announced...

The Long Life of the Frontier Mullah

I read somewhere recently that while everyone is talking about the US withdrawing from Iraq, nobody is talking about the ongoing impacts of US presence in Afghanistan - and Pakistan is caught up in this too.This...

Afghan president says he'll send troops to Pakistan to fight Taliban

Barry Artiste, Now Public Contributor Though a good idea in principle. Perhaps invading another country accused of harbouring the Taliban would open a can of worms to both our troops, the middle east and India in our...

17-Year-Old Daughter of Benazir Bhutto Gets Top Post in Pakistan People's Party

" KARACHI, Pakistan —  The eldest daughter of Benazir Bhutto, the assassinated former prime minister of Pakistan, took her first steps on the political ladder last week with her appointment to a...

Benazir Bhutto's Unknown Side

I first heard about that on MPR Chicago Public Radio, I think that is a side few people on western hemisphere knows. " Pakistan's sprawling city of Karachi is one of the world's most-populous places,...

No Kites Fly: Basant Canceled

Basant, Pakistan's famous kite-flying festival, will not be taking place this year due to increased political violence. "The Basant festival brings a springtime buzz to eastern Pakistan and its regional capital,...

Bhutto’s party names candidate for PM office

ISLAMABAD, March 22: The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) of slain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on Saturday evening put an end to speculation about new prime minister of Pakistan as it named Syed Yousaf Raza...

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