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 this morning’s Boston Globe by our own Asif Ali Zardari. For your consumption and comments. There are moments in history that define nations, and also define men. For Pakistan, we have reached a critical crossroad that will determine the nature of our future, or if we will have one. I have [...]
Read more →Mir Jamil ur Rahman provides an interesting perspective into the political environment in Pakistan with the fast emerging Talibanisation movement. The flurry of suicide bombings following the Jamia Hafsa operation strongly indicates that Taliban has declared war on Pakistan. The organized pattern of the bombings points to the fact that al-Qaeda is providing Taliban with [...]
Read more →The Washington Post had Craig Cohen, Deputy Chief of Staff at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, online to discuss and answer questions about the Pakistan Army’s raid on Lal Masjid and the impact it will have on President Musharraf’s Presidency and the future of Pakistan. I followed it online until about midnight Pakistan [...]
Read more →Today’s Daily Times, Pakistan’s leading liberal newspaper, has an outstanding assessment of the recent All Parties Conference held in London. I personally believe that the whole APC is nothing more than an attempt to perform a power grab with the Pakistan’s religious right-wing and the exiled former Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif. In the next few [...]
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