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,...
The Pakistani military showed off its previously declaring victory in the tiny Bajaur Agency today, showing off a captured (and largely destroyed) marketplace and declaring "the resistance has been broken down," providing a rare upnote to the military's ongoing, and...
Details of a 17-point plan for Swat Valley agreed to earlier this week between Pakistani forces and Sufi Muhammad, head of the Tehreek-e Nafaz-e Shariat-e Mohammad (TNSM) weren't made immediately available at the time of its signing, but it seems now that it is just...
Terrorist attacks in troubled Pakistan are nothing new, but today's attack in Lahore, which killed six police and two civilian bystanders and injured several others seems to have captured the attention of not just the nation, but much of the world as well. The 12...
