The Garrison town of Rawalpindi near Pakistani capital has been rocked with two big bomb explosion. More details are awaited."At least two loud explosions have been heard in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, residents...
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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...
I read somewhere recently that while everyone is talking about the US withdrawing from Iraq, nobody is talking about the ongoing impacts of US presence in Afghanistan - and Pakistan is caught up in this too.This...
After the emergence of the coalition government in Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf is mulling leaving power and leading a retired life. It is increasingly becoming difficult for the President to operate in...
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan AP - A bomb exploded on a busy road near Pakistan's capital on Monday,
killing an army general and two other people, state television reported. You can see other current NowPublic stories on the...
It would be hard enough to get the privacy to grieve with a mother as famous as his, but when half the country is looking at you to lead it must take an enormous toll on Bhutto."Benazir Bhutto’s 19-year-old son...
"With rumors of government complicity in Benazir Bhutto's assassination rife throughout Pakistan, the country's stability may depend on the absolute transparency of the investigation into the murder. But a constantly...
"Benazir Bhutto's husband and their 19-year-old son have been appointed to continue the leadership of the Pakistan Peoples Party.
Mrs Bhutto's son Bilawal has been appointed chairman of her Pakistan Peoples Party, while Mr Asif Ali Zardari will be co-chairman.
PPP officials...
Rawalpindi, Pakistan: After a lot of different versions of how
opposition figure Benazir Bhutto allegedly died during her election
campaign in this small Pakistani town, CNN published a video that
apparently shows...
by Robert Fisk–The Independent, UK–29 December 2007–
Weird, isn't it, how swiftly the narrative is laid down for us. Benazir
Bhutto, the courageous leader of the Pakistan People's Party, is assassinated in
Rawalpindi – attached to the very capital of...
The eldest of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s four children, Benazir Bhutto was born in Karachi on June 21, 1953. Her mother Begum Nusrat Bhutto was of Kurdish-Iranian origin while her paternal grandfather was Sir Shah Nawaz...
""Of course he (President) was shocked and condemned the terrorists," Dino Patti Djalal, presidential spokesman told Antara here on Thursday night.The head of state expressed a hope that such fatal accident will not harm democracy in Pakistan, which is now unstable especially...
"Obituary - Pakistan`s Bhutto slain by suicide attacker
Islamabad (ANTARA News) - Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, slain in a suicide attack in Rawalpindi on Thursday, knew very well the risks she ran when...
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorPakistan suffered a tremendous loss of a potential leader, but Ms. Bhutto's knew what she was getting into, her father and siblings being executed or assassinated left Ms....