Pakistan
A letter and reply on Pakistan
January 16, 2008
The following is an email from Robert Templer, director of the Asian program of the International Crisis Group, regarding the January 7 article “Beleaguered Pakistani president lashes out at cri...
Lahore bombing casts pall over Pakistani election
By K. Ratnayake, January 12, 2008
A bomb blast in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Thursday has cast fresh doubt over national elections due on February 18. The poll has been delayed once already on the pretext that some electi...
Beleaguered Pakistani president lashes out at critics
By K. Ratnayake, January 7, 2008
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf is increasingly a man under siege following the December 27 assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto. The official explanation for Bhutto’s death is...
Secret White House meeting plans US military escalation in Pakistan
By Bill Van Auken, January 7, 2008
Top members of the Bush administration together with US military commanders and intelligence chiefs met in secret at the White House Friday to draw up plans for stepped-up military intervention in Pak...
Pakistani regime announces lengthy election delay
By K. Ratnayake, January 3, 2008
The Pakistani government of President Pervez Musharraf yesterday announced that national elections planned for January 8 would be postponed for six weeks until February 18. The delay, which was critic...
Pakistan: Violent state repression of protests over Bhutto assassination
By Keith Jones, December 31, 2007
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on Saturday ordered the military and other security forces to take whatever measures were necessary to quell rioting sparked by last Thursday’s assassination...
Bhutto assassination heightens threat of US intervention in Pakistan
By Bill Van Auken, December 29, 2007
With Pakistan erupting in violence over the assassination of its former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and amid conflicting accounts as to both the identity of her assassins and even the cause of her d...
In wake of assassination of Benazir Bhutto, Bush administration rushes to defense of Musharraf
By Keith Jones, December 28, 2007
Pakistan People’s Party “life chairperson” and prime ministerial candidate Benazir Bhutto was assassinated early Thursday evening, Pakistani time, while campaigning for national and ...
Pakistan’s opposition parties capitulate to Musharraf and Bush
By Keith Jones, December 14, 2007
Pakistan’s principal opposition parties and alliances—Benazir Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), the Pakistan Muslim League of deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif, and the...
Bush applauds Musharraf as he makes himself Pakistan’s President till 2012
By Keith Jones, December 3, 2007
US President George W. Bush was the first foreign leader to congratulate General Pervez Mushraraf after he had himself sworn in Thursday to a further five-year term as Pakistan’s president.
Bhutto and Sharif decry dictatorship, while seeking a deal with Pakistan’s US-backed military regime
By Keith Jones, November 26, 2007
Pakistan is now in its twenty-third full day of de facto martial law. Basic civil liberties have been suspended. Thousands of government opponents—members of opposition parties, lawyers, human r...
US steps up plans for military intervention in Pakistan
By Bill Van Auken, November 20, 2007
In the midst of public statements of support for “democracy” in Pakistan and the recent visit to Islamabad by the American envoy John Negroponte, Washington is quietly preparing for a step...
