I saw this online today about a protest by some Pakistani-Americans in Chicago and am posting for your consumption. I noticed that Teeth Maestro had commented on this article on the original site, but I was shocked at some of the hatred that people show towards Pakistan. A group of Pakistani-Americans and anti-war activists delivered [...]
Read more →A very interesting interview with the Mayor of Kabul, President of Afghanistan to the rest of the world, Hamid Karzai. I find it interesting to listen to his change in position on Pakistan and its involvement with the war on terror. But what is more interesting is how deftly he avoids questions about corruption and [...]
Read more →Henry Chu has recently done a series of articles on Pakistan for the LA Times, but this one sheds an interesting light on Asif Ali Zardari as President of Pakistan. ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN – Only a year ago, Asif Ali Zardari was best known as the husband of Benazir Bhutto, a highflying businessman with a taste [...]
Read more →Hours after a truck bomber slew 53 people last weekend at the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, the country’s interior minister laid responsibility for the attack on Taliban militants holed up in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, or FATA, the remote, wild region that straddles the border with Afghanistan. “All roads lead to FATA,” Interior [...]
Read more →An op-ed piece from Joe Biden in the New York Times. The next president will have to rally America and the world to “fight them over there unless we want to fight them over here.” The “over there” is not, as President Bush has claimed, Iraq, but rather the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan. That [...]
Read more →This morning’s Daily Times carried a stunning headline for Pakistanis. Asif Ali Zardari, to clarify “the President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan” stated that ”Obviously, the world is a safer place,” he said. “It could have been worse,” in an interview with the Washington Post on Saturday. Can I ask which world Zardari is talking [...]
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