ISLAMABAD: Can Muslim governments free themselves from their countries' powerful militaries and establish civilian control comparable to that found in liberal democracies? This question is now paramount in countries as disparate as Egypt, Pakistan, (...)
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari abruptly returned to Karachi on the morning of Dec. 19, following a 13-day absence for medical treatment in Dubai, where he lived while in exile. The government issued no a formal statement about (...)
ISLAMABAD: The 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States sent shock waves around the world from which Pakistan has still not recovered. Indeed, Pakistan's participation in what former President George W. Bush called the “global war on terror” has (...)
ISLAMABAD: Relations between the United States and Pakistan have continued to fray since a US Special Forces team killed Osama bin Laden in a comfortable villa near a major Pakistani military academy. But the tit-for-tat retaliation that has (...)
ISLAMABAD: Large events sometimes have unintended strategic consequences. This is turning out to be the case following the killing of Osama bin Laden in a compound in Abbottabad, a military-dominated town near Islamabad, Pakistan's capital.
The (...)
ISLAMABAD: Osama bin Laden's death in a firefight with United States special forces will profoundly affect Pakistan's relations with America. The death of Al Qaeda's leader deep in Pakistan, in a city with a heavy military presence, appears to (...)
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's domestic situation is becoming increasingly precarious. Indeed, serious questions are now being raised as to whether the country can survive in its present form.
Such questions stem from a growing fear that Islamist groups (...)
LAHORE: Pakistan's former president, Pervez Musharraf, has decided to return to Pakistani politics, if not quite to Pakistan. He announced his decision at London's National Liberal Club, an institution founded in the nineteenth century by William (...)
LAHORE: July was one of the roughest months in Pakistan's history. The country's establishment was blamed for duplicity in the American war effort in Afghanistan, backing both sides — the United States and the Taliban — at the same time. There was (...)