SSG Commandos Killed Benazir

American and Pakistani military leaders are seeking to account for what may be renegade commando units from the  Pakistani military’s special forces in the wake of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. The attack at Rawalpindi bore the hallmarks of a sophisticated military operation. At first, Bhutto’s rally was hit by a suicide bomb that turned out

Aroosa Alam Marries Former Indian CM

 Aroosa Alam, a journalist from Pakistan, has denied “any marriage, engagement or affair” with the former Punjab Chief Minister, Amarinder Singh. She, however, stressed that she and her family enjoyed a “very good friendship” with Captain Singh’s family. Addressing the Chandigarh Press Club, Ms Alam, who heads the Islamabad chapter of the South Asia Free Media

Mysterious Crowd Suddenly Stopped Benazir’s Car

Mysterious Crowd Suddenly Stopped Bhutto’s Car By Saeed Shah and Jonathan S. Landay, McClatchy NewspapersFri Jan 11,  Two new reports on the assassination of Benazir Bhutto suggest that the killing may have been an ambitious plot rather than an isolated act of violence and that the government of President Musharraf knows far more than it’s admitted about the

A Fight Between Fundamentalism and Moderation

Nicholas Schmidle A dozen men sat in a circle in a village outside Peshawar on a recent afternoon. Wearing red caps, they gossiped and drank green tea. The sun fell behind a roof, and several of the men wrapped wool blankets around themselves. All belonged to the Awami National Party, a secular political party based

Pakistan After Benazir

On the Campaign Trail in Pakistan: “Why should I vote in a Pakistani election? I don’t recognize Pakistan.” By Nicholas Schmidle  “Benazir Didn’t Just Belong to the PPP” I arrived in Karachi on New Year’s Eve, just as the seaside metropolis was limping back to normal after four days of rioting and looting in the aftermath

An American Expelled for a NYT Story

CPJ: Pakistan expels reporter for The New York Times Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:05:50 -0500  CPJ_Asia@cpj.org To: < alerts@ifex.org> Committee to Protect   Journalists 330 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10001 USA     Phone: (212) 465‒1004     Fax: (212) 465‒9568     Web: http://www.cpj.org     E-Mail: media@cpj.org   Contact:  Bob Dietz Telephone:  ex 140 Cell: http://www.cpj.org   e-mail: bdietz@cpj.org

The Split Within the Bhutto Family

The broken bloodline Fatima Bhutto is Benazir’s niece. The resemblance is striking: the long nose, the headstrong personality, the burning rage about a father’s violent death. Declan Walsh meets the woman who would have been the heir to Benazir’s throne – if it weren’t for the family feud that came between them Fatima Bhutto. Photograph:

Poor Lahore

Here in the city of Kim, Pakistan’s magnificent history is being left to rot Simon Jenkins in Lahore Friday January 11, 2008 The Guardian Poor Lahore. Yesterday this jewelled city of the Raj was hit by a suicide bomber aimed at lawyers protesting President Pervez Musharraf imprisonment of his top judiciary. As body parts scattered