Why Has ISI Arrested CIA Informants?

by Eric Schmitt & Mark Mazzetti/ NYT ISI has arrested some of the Pakistani informants who fed information to the CIA in the months leading up to the raid that led to the death of Osama bin Laden, according to American officials. Pakistan’s detention of five CIA informants, including a Pakistani Army major who officials said copied the license plates [...]

A Flood of Drone Attacks

Fatima Bhutto, an Afghan-born Pakistani poet and writer, is most recently the author of Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter’s Memoir (Nation Books, 2010). Her work has appeared in the New Statesman, the Daily Beast, and the Guardian, among other places. Her father, Murtaza Bhutto, son of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and an elected member of parliament, [...]

Fatima Bhutto Blames Benazir for Murtaza & Shahnawaz Murder

Pakistan’s most fiery family feud has been reignited with the publication of a tell-all memoir that links assassinated Benazir Bhutto with the deaths of her two brothers. Songs of Blood and Sword by Fatima Bhutto [http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/apr/17/fatima-bhutto-pakistan-politics" title="Fatima Bhutto], Benazir’s 27-year-old niece, has received mostly praise from reviewers [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/apr/25/songs-blood-sword-fatima-bhutto" title="reviewers] touched by her rich, pacy account [...]

Fatima Bhutto Criticizes Zardari’s Censorship Policies

Fatima Bhutto fears hat she could be liable for prosecution for her writings criticising the government, under the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Ordinance introduced in the shape of a bill before the parliament recently. Fatima Bhutto said Pakistan’s ‘so-called democratic government’ had introduced the bill “to censor our already frightened media”. According to the bill, [...]