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Reports of the United States attempting to take an active role in helping safeguard Pakistan's nuclear arsenal could not have come at a worse time for President Asif Ali Zardari. He is already marginalized by his military, now...
Now would be a good time for our government to formally renounce the use of journalists as spies. US government officials predictably claimed that the three are not spies and said they were seized solely as pawns in the...
The United Nations says Iran is preparing to start up a uranium-enrichment site that was revealed only recently and which scientists suggest is too small for nuclear power purposes but suitable for making nuclear bombs. Frankly...
Part I Tuesday, November 17, 2009 Mosharraf Zaidi The conflict that is taking place in Pakistan is not an ideological war. If for no other reason, then because extremist ideology, and extremist groups such as the Taliban and Al...
For Pakistani president, goodbye to goodwill Bhutto’s widower criticized for U.S. ties, battle against militants, shortages Army officials have made no secret of their unhappiness over Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari's...
Peshawar: Pakistani villagers repelled an attack on an anti-Taliban mayor near Peshawar on Sunday, the police said, as the death toll from the latest suicide bombing to strike the under-siege city rose to 15. The northwest...
Monday, November 16, 2009 Aasim Sajjad Akhtar Some six months ago I wrote a critique of the media on these pages for not abiding by professional journalistic ethics in its coverage of the military action in Malakand. Through...
Comment Monday, November 16, 2009 By Momin Iftikhar The angry reaction in Pakistan to Seymour Hersh’s article in the New Yorker, once viewed in the context of its ludicrous contents, seems justifiable. According to Hersh’s...
"WASHINGTON -- The United States ambassador to Afghanistan, who once served as the top American military commander there, has expressed in writing his reservations about deploying additional troops to the country, three senior...
The ridiculously sexy 25-year-old actress Olivia Wilde is, believe it or not, a reader, as are, apparently, many of her fans. After she appeared, squirming all over a beach in a bikini, on the cover of last month’s GQ, “I...
