ISLAMABAD, April 26 -- After weeks of deliberation, Pakistan's newly formed coalition government appears to have reached an impasse over its month-old promise to reinstate dozens of judges fired last year by President Pervez Musharraf.
The positions taken up by both the major political parties of Pakistan, except Nawaz League and the protesting lawyers poles apart. For a few individuals rules cannot be foregone.
America should support Pakistan's next civilian ruler even if he refuses to enter a power-sharing agreement with Pervez Musharraf.
If Afghanistan fails or Pakistan falls to fundamentalism, America will suffer a terrible setback.
(Reuters) - Nuclear-armed Pakistan is due to hold an election on Monday that has its neighbors and the West shuddering over what might happen next in a country at risk of being destabilized by al Qaeda. Here are some of the possible election...
John McCain staved off a spirited challenge by Mike Huckabee, exorcising the ghosts of the attack-filled primary in the same state that derailed his campaign eight years ago.
The sad fact is this simply put nothing but euphemism. Beyond 80 years of its birth, it was made hostage to monarchy and clergy. Today the Muslims are obscurantists lightly put.
artificial measures only accentuate the natural fall out from man made disasters. The Shahadat of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, to the myopic mind set of the fundamentalists, the extremists, the militants, may be just a death.
Is China preparing itself to deal with a Pakistan without Musharraf? Judging from the official stand, the question may lack substance, but it assumes some credibility when the latest pronouncements by authoritative think tanks and media analysts (all in Chinese language) are subj …
The political upheaval in Pakistan and emergence there of a new military leader has revitalized the Bush administration's long struggle to develop a coherent strategy for uprooting al-Qaeda from Pakistan's western tribal areas, U.S. officials said yesterday.
With the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the Bush administration is now depending on two politicians -- one accused in the 1990s of being a crook and the other still viewed as almost powerless -- to help prop up President Pervez Musharraf and stabilize volatile Pakistan, accordi …
Throughout history, violent death has rewritten the country's political map.
Pakistan society has lived on symbols, rhetoric, and non-sense for 60 years. Why so such furore if Mr. Asif Zardari has just stated the "what is". Yes! Bilawal Bhutto Zaradari carries the blood of Bhutto. IHe is the symbol which can bring broken hearts together.
This open letter by Amna Paracha to Mujahid Barelvi is seeded with the moral support which a judiciary demands to make it independent. Brilliant riposte Amna Paracha ! Congratulations!
As Pakistan postponed its elections until February, American intelligence analysts questioned the evidence against a suspect in Benazir Bhutto's assassination.
Saturday, March 22, 2008 A moral dilemma………what would you do????
Democrat John Edwards is exiting the presidential race Wednesday, ending a scrappy underdog bid in which he steered his rivals toward progressive ideals while grappling with family hardship that roused voters' sympathies, The Associated Press has learned.
Racial issues are sure to come up Monday night as the Democratic presidential candidates debate on Martin Luther King Jr. Day in South Carolina, the first state of the campaign season with a significant number of black voters.
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