The Long March began today in the cities of Karachi and Quetta, and already the government is out in force to disrupt the protest. Police attacked lawyers and political activists at Toll Plaza in Karachi, arresting several high ranking leaders of opposition parties...
Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan have reportedly conducted their first joint anti-narcotics operation this week along the three nations' mutual borders. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime said that the operation resulted in a seizure and the arrests of...
The imposition of emergency rule across much of Pakistan this week has led to a mixture of responses from opposition figures, ranging from condemnation to warnings and efforts by President Asif Ali Zardari to defend what many are seeing as a rather blatant power grab....
Despite claims from the Deputy Chairman of Planning that the government intends to stop the rally "at all costs" and the Punjab Home Secretary saying the army would be called in, organizers say Pakistan's long-awaited "long march" will go ahead as planned tomorrow....
Last Updated 3/11/09 10:30 PM EST With the Afghan frontier in a near constant state of insurrection, and separatist movements remaining a top concern in Balochistan, the twin provinces of Sindh and Punjab have been the stable, safe part of Pakistan. That now appears...
Pakistani opposition leader Nawaz Sharif and his brother Shahbaz have been placed under house arrest today as the national government attempts to consolidate its authority in the Punjab Province against growing popular unrest. The move was just the first step in a...
The Pakistani government and the grand Mamond tribal jirga in the Bajaur Agency have reportedly agreed to a 28-point peace deal today aimed at securing the relative quiet of the past few days. The agreement requires the tribes to submit to the government's authority...
Just hours after the Pakistani government threatened opposition leader and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif with "life imprisonment and a fine" for sedition, Sharif spoke at a rally in Jhelum. At the rally, he declared that "we cannot leave Pakistan at the mercy of...
Just days after President Obama spoke in an interview of reaching out to moderate Taliban in an effort to reconcile at least some aspects of the growing insurgency with the faltering Afghan government, reports are emerging that his administration is planning to...
Late last month the Pakistani Supreme Court declared opposition leader and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his brother Shahbaz (chief minister of the Punjab Province) ineligible to hold public offices for opposing the 1999 military coup of Pervez Musharraf,...
