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Pakistani court indicts five over Bhutto murder attackIslamabad - An anti-terrorism court on Saturday formally indicted five people in connection with the assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, media reports said. Bhutto was murdered in a gun-suicide attack in the garrison city... ... |
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On the front line, in war on Pakistan's TalibanAli Hussein, a sergeant in the Sindh Regiment of the Pakistani Army, peers over the lip of his sandbagged machinegun pit to see the following: a muddy patch of farmland divided into a chaos of individual fields, a row of slender birch trees, a dry river valley and, almost invisible among the tree... |
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Witnesses: Israeli missile kills two militants in northern GazaGaza City - An Israeli airstrike killed two Palestinian militants in the northern Gaza Strip Saturday morning, witnesses said. They said a reconnaissance drone fired a rocket at a group of five gunmen who gathered near the border town of Beit Hanoun.... ... |
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'Anti-women' cabinet riles Pakistan activistsTwo notorious politicians accused of brutal attitudes towards women have been made cabinet ministers in Pakistan, causing outrage among human rights activists.Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani, charged with presiding over a "jirga" which gave away five young girls as a form of compensation, and I... |
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Lucia Brawley: The Museum of MotherhoodI like to think it was Chaka Kahn that blared over the loudspeaker at my cousin's wedding reception in Cimigiano, Tuscany, two towns over from where our grandmother had entered this world in 1914. I strained to hear my cousin's other 90-year-old grandmother shouting over the music, saying that, ... |
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If Obama’s victory is Obama’s…Like most people across the third world I’m happy that Obama won. I would be happier to see a woman in that place and I sure see that happening soon. I say all this with a pinch of salt added to it. Imagine Condoleezza Rice in the position of the President. That’s not re... |


