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February 13, 2008
Editor’s Note: February 2008
The general is beginning to lose his shirt more often than not. His outbursts at public forums are becoming an increasing source of embarrassment. At a media briefing in London, General Musharraf lambasted a former resident editor of Pakistan’s leading…
February 9, 2008
Hidden Hand
Though he is the most powerful military commander of the Pakistani Taliban, Baitullah Mehsud remains a shadowy figure with a larger-than-life reputation. One reason for his being largely unknown is his refusal to grant media interviews or be photographed. It…
January 18, 2008
Maximum Exposure
If there were any doubts that 2007 was globally ‘The Year of Pakistan,’ then Benazir Bhutto’s death on December 27, 2007, erased them in one fell swoop. Before the reverberations of the blast from Liaquat Bagh were heard around the…
January 18, 2008
The Great Cover-Up?
All assassinations have consequences, but few are as explosive as those that have followed the murder of Benazir Bhutto on the evening of December 27. The whole country has been rocked to its very foundation. The killing of 61 people…
January 18, 2008
Who Killed Bhutto?
Clear answers about the assassination of Benazir Bhutto still seem distant. Every day seemingly brings a new version of the story without any fundamental change in the evidence. Meanwhile, the federal government has lost all credibility with the public. Besides…
July 14, 2007
Fight to the Finish
In the end, it was all flesh, bones and blood. Under thick clouds of smoke, mutilated and bullet-riddled bodies lay scattered across the suburban battlefield. Rocked by heavy fire and shelling, the buildings within Lal Masjid sustained major damage and…
July 14, 2007
The Battle for the Soul of Pakistan
Maqsood Ahmed sat in a corner of a tent packed with parents praying for news of their children trapped in the besieged Lal Masjid. An impoverished farmer from northern Pakistan, he had been waiting for five days to be reunited…
July 10, 2006
In the Line of Fire
Hayatullah Khan’s family waited over six months for his return. But when the day finally came for Hayatullah to return home, there was no joyful reunion — just a phone call saying where they could find his body. On December…