[Tuba Omer]
“This is Pakistan’s war,” reads the headline of today’s newspaper, above a photo of a blazing Mariott hotel. And these are the words of Pakistan’s newly elected President, Asif Ali Zardari. The political situation in Pakistan has escalated to such an extent that citizens wake up hearing the phrase “terrorist attacks” and go to […]
Pakistan’s War
The last hope for peace and security?
[Annie Thompson]
Only a week after Benazir Bhutto’s assassination, hopes for restoring democracy following Pakistan’s so far troubled electoral process appear to have been foiled.
Western commentators have been quick to suggest that the killing will mark the death of democracy in Pakistan, which was showing signs of reawakening from the coma it fell into eight years […]
Benazir Bhutto
[Robert Stagg]
It is not unheard of for political leaders to die in undignified fashions. Antonio Salazar, the dictator of Portugal, fell victim to the grimmest of reapers when his deckchair folded in on itself. The medieval Ars Moriendi is a handbook decorated with the macabre (and often ridiculous) ends of kings and queens. The Japanese […]