Let’s see how many times the story has changed about whether Zardari & Co. were or were not supposed to be at the Marriott the night of the massive bombing. Posted below is President Zardari’s interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN’s Late Edition.
Can the kind readers of this blog remind us all of the different [...]
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 the [...]
I just read this on the Washington Post website and think that most of us need to join this school of thought. Islam is not served by the people who commit these acts or those who support them. Add your comments below.
Ramadan is the ninth month in the Islamic calendar and serves as a spiritual [...]
Whenever the terrorists succeed, whenever an atrocity is of a scale to hit the front pages of the world’s newspapers, there is always an inquest into the failures of intelligence that allowed it to happen.
After the slaughter at the Marriott hotel in Islamabad on Saturday, the intelligence agencies of a dozen or more countries will [...]
The one ton truck bomb that ripped apart Islamabad’s Marriot Inn last Saturday was both a warning to its pro-American elite and a revenge attack against Pakistan’s new government
At least 56 people - a probably many more - were reported killed and some 250 injured by the huge explosion that tore off the front of [...]
After several weeks of international bad press because of drone planes being piloted by 19 year olds with joy-sticks in California, blowing up families in Pakistan willy-nilly, after all that, the “terrorists” in Pakistan decide to blow up a second rate hotel there, killing civilians, and making them the bad guys once again? How’s that [...]
10,000 Indian troops are stationed in Afghanistan under the garb of supervising construction of road Jalalabad-Port Chahbahar project that has now been completed. Whereas India has officially declared 14 Indian consulates in Afghanistan, on ground they have 107 in which 20 intelligence units are burning their midnight oil to destabilize Pakistan
After 9/11 CIA bought the [...]
This first appeared in the Toronto Sun (I think) when Benazir was assassinated. It fits today also.
With all the rumors and discussion flying around in the media, this cartoon is a great representation of today’s Pak - US relations.
A collection of pictures of the continued siege at Lal Masjid in Islamabad from domestic and international media outlets, including CNN, BBC, Dawn, and The News.
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