iftikhar chaudhry

As the Zardari government in Pakistan has an increasingly precarious hold on power, one option for the Obama administration is to turn to Gen. Ashfaq Kiyani to foment a coup, as an ex-intel official tells Laura Rozen:
“Look at [Secretary of State Hilary Clinton]’s comments over the  last week to the effect that the Zardari government [...]

By now you’ve probably seen the ghastly video, shot on a camera phone, of Taliban thugs flogging a teenage woman in Pakistan’s Swat valley for the simple act of being seen in public with a married man. The video is many things — a reminder, if one was needed, of the savagery of Taliban rule; [...]

The perils of writing posts last night and timing them for release in the morning!
Meet re-Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry. His reinstatement meets the basic demand of Nawaz Sharif’s Long March to Islamabad. What’s more, Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani announced that the government will petition for the reversal of a ruling from last month [...]