UN chief announces Bhutto assassination probe

Emerging after meeting with senior Pakistani officials the UN chief Ban Ki-moon has said he will launch "very shortly" an independent inquiry into the killing of Pakistani ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Former...

Panel to probe Bhutto murder has limited duties: UN

After agreeing to probe and determine facts of Benazir assassination the United Nations has clarified that the commission investigating the assassination would have limited role and will have to finish the...

Our winter of discontent

BORN amidst bloodshed and raised in turmoil, it appears that this country’s has been marked out for unceasing pain and suffering. In fact, the year just ended has had more than its usual share of disappointments — though also the occasional triumph. "Our winter of...

Pakistan set to issue Benazir Bhutto coin

One year after her  assassination former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is coming to the pockets of her citizens. Her big portraits have been hanging on the government buildings, billboards,...

Update: Seven killed in Pakistan shopping plaza collapse

At least seven persons were killed and 63 others injured while over a 11 were still trapped under the debris as a five-storey shopping plaza collapsed in Pakistan’s garrison city of Rawalpindi near capital...

Bilawal recives UN award for shaheed benazir bhitto

Slain Pakistani leader and former Premier, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto has been conferred upon United Nations award of Human Rights for her services rendered for the poor human beings and in recognition of her...

UN to investigate Bhutto killing

"Pakistan and the United Nations have agreed in principle to set up a UN panel to investigate the killing of Pakistani ex-PM Benazir Bhutto. Pakistan's foreign minister said UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon...

Islamist protests after mass death-row reprieve on Benazir Bhutto birthday

Islamists protested today over the decision to reprieve 7,000 death row inmates and change their sentences to life imprisonment in honour of Benazir Bhutto's birthday.This is one of the biggest amnesties in...

McCain adviser says terrorist attack would boost campaign

Looks like one of John McCain's advisors let loose a little too much "straight talk" in an article published yesterday in Fortune magazine, saying that a terrorist attack would be a blessing for the McCain...

Of last-minute efforts from Pakistan to stop Bhutto from staging comeback

The will of slain Benazir Bhutto was in her own handwriting and it had three parts: First she paid tribute to her colleagues, then she mentioned her spouse Asif Zardari whom she described as a courageous and the one who fulfils promises while in the third part she advised the...

Pakistan honors slain Bhutto on 55th birthday

Pakistan - Pakistani officials commemorated Benazir Bhutto's birthday Saturday with plans to rename an airport after the slain former prime minister, build a monument on the site of her assassination and grant clemency to thousands of death row inmates. Prime Minister Yousuf...

Pakistan celebrates 55th birth anniversary of slain Bhutto

As the Pakistanis celebrated the 55th birth anniversary of slain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on Saturday, first after her assassination in December last year, Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani...

Afghan president says he'll send troops to Pakistan to fight Taliban

Barry Artiste, Now Public Contributor Though a good idea in principle. Perhaps invading another country accused of harbouring the Taliban would open a can of worms to both our troops, the middle east and India in...

17-Year-Old Daughter of Benazir Bhutto Gets Top Post in Pakistan People's Party

" KARACHI, Pakistan —  The eldest daughter of Benazir Bhutto, the assassinated former prime minister of Pakistan, took her first steps on the political ladder last week with her appointment to a...

No Kites Fly: Basant Canceled

Basant, Pakistan's famous kite-flying festival, will not be taking place this year due to increased political violence. "The Basant festival brings a springtime buzz to eastern Pakistan and its regional capital,...

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