Pakistan Elections

Essential Reading for Obama

By Deepak Tripathi In the weeks until his inauguration on January 20, 2009, Barack Obama will be focusing on the most immediate tasks of assembling a new administration and familiarizing himself with the depth of domestic and...

Election of Bhutto as Pakistan's prime minister: 16 November 1988 - This Day in History

Benazir Bhutto, elected prime minister of Pakistan on this day in 1988, became the first woman in modern history to lead a Muslim country, serving as prime minister from 1988 to 1990 and again from 1993 to 1996.More Events on...

Opportunity for Obama on Pakistan

Pakistan is often described as the most urgent foreign-policy headache facing President-elect Barack Obama. Al-Qaeda and the Taliban have sunk roots in its tribal regions, from which they mount attacks on coalition troops in...

Sharif rejects Supreme Court's call to appear against verdict

Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif has turned down a Supreme Court call to appear before it in connection with an appeal against a high court decision that declared him ineligible to contest elections.

L.A. Times Still Not Reporting Hillary’s Pakistan Gaffes

The L.A. Times reports on the possibility that Hillary Clinton could be Secretary of State. The paper hits some of her weaknesses, but misses one fairly prominent one. She tried to make foreign affairs a selling point,...

Nations caught in extremism must be helped: Zardari

Friday, November 14, 2008 UNITED NATIONS: President Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday said the world community should commit itself to eliminating the root causes of extremism and terrorism, giving all people in all societies...

Respected Pakistani politician awarded Honorary Fellowship by Downing College

Downing College has elected one of their distinguished alumni, Aitzaz Ahsan, to an Honorary Fellowship. The distinguished Pakistani lawyer and politician Aitzaz Ahsan read Law at Downing in the 1960s, and was called to the Bar...

Zardari: U.S. airstrikes counter-productive

Pakistan president says U.S. attacks in Pakistan border land are counter-productive He hopes U.S. president-elect will re-evaluate the attacks Asif Ali Zardari: The attacks are not appreciated by the people at large U.S. says...

Musharraf maintains loaded silence over back-to-politics speculation

Don't be surprised if you hear someone in Pakistan's capital Islamabad saying that he has seen former president Pervez Musharraf turning up at a friend's place, house of a politician or some famous restaurant.

Timeline: Bangladesh

A chronology of key events: 1947 - The Awami League is established to campaign for East Pakistan's autonomy from West Pakistan. The Awami League, under Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, wins an overwhelming election victory in East...

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