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After more than four decades in power, the country’s post-presidential election violence has driven thousands of Kikuyus away from businesses and farms in the western part of the country and into churches and police stations where they wait for evacuation to the country’s central highlands.
Though the attacks came after an 11th hour presidential victory [...]
Pervez Musharraf has been headed out of power for months now but now, even the US State Department has begun to look for other options in the war against Muslim extremism. Ironically, that search has led to conservative, right wing crusader and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif.
The US “recognizes that, very likely if there [...]
Pakistan president, Pervez Musharraf, promised to hold elections on February 18 today in a televised announcement. Though Asif Ali Zardari, co-chairman of the Pakistan People’s Party and husband of slain former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, has agreed to participate in the elections, the country’s second-largest party, the Muslim League, called for the dissolution of the [...]
Pakistani strongman Pervez Musharraf has delayed that country’s general elections until February. The exact date will be announced this coming Wednesday.
Cynics in Pakistan and among the West’s diplomatic corps have said that the decision had been made to allow the fervor surrounding Benazir Bhutto’s assassination to die down and prevent an outpouring of sympathy [...]
Nineteen-year-old Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has become the titular leader of the Pakistan People’s Party but his position may become worthless if opponents of his father and co-chairman, Asif Ali Zardari, opt out.
Though there has been no announcement of a formal split, politicians on the ground fear that a sizable and vocal anti-Zardari contingent may not [...]
