The Trouble With Spikol (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
And I'm not talking about sleep. Would any female head of state have done this? Say what you will about Benazir Bhutto. She never winked at me. Luckily, I found this inspiring video and feel better about life. It's the...
Infidels Are Cool (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
A Taliban commander believed to be the mastermind behind the attack that killed Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto last year has died.
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Islamabad, Oct. 1 (PTI): Pakistani Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud, blamed for masterminding the assassination of former Premier Benazir Bhutto, has died after a long illness, according to media reports.
NaiTazi.com (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Source: Telegraph Speculation is mounting that Baitullah Mehsud, the leader of the Pakistani wing of the Taliban, has died from kidney failure. Mehsud was accused by Pakistan and US intelligence of being responsible for the assassination of the former prime minister, Benazir Bhutto. Rumours of his death are circulating in Pakistan. The former fitness instructor turned terrorist [...]
Sky News (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
The Pakistani authorities and the Taliban are engaged in a propaganda battle over the fate of Baitullah Mehsud - the man accused of planning a string of suicide attacks across the country including the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
The strike came amid reports that Pakistan's top Taliban leader, Baitullah Mehsud, had fallen ill and died. Officials have accused Mehsud over the slaying of former leader Benazir Bhutto.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
The leader of Pakistan's Taliban, Baitullah Mehsud, is dead from kidney failure, sources told CNN. The Pakistan government blamed Mehsud for the December 27, 2007, assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
War News Updates (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
The Benazir Bhutto assassination From The International Herald Tribune: Hours after a truck bomber slew 53 people last weekend at the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, the country's interior minister laid responsibility for the attack on Taliban militants holed up in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, or FATA, the remote, wild region that straddles the border with Afghanistan. "All roads...
The Jawa Report (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
Via CNN:The leader of Pakistan's Taliban, Baitullah Mehsud, is dead from kidney failure, sources told CNN. The Pakistan government blamed Mehsud for the December 27, 2007, assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. An unnamed Islamabad-based source with connections within...
Desicritics (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
The Grin That Walks and Ingratiates - that is Asif Ali Zardari the 13th President of Pakistan, Co Chairperson of the Hand Written Will, unwittingly parachuted by a lame duck US Administration in its waning days. The US leaned on former President Musharraf to share power with Benazir Bhutto. She was ineligible to participate in the political process and had corruption, extra judicial killing and power...
War News Updates (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
Asif Ali Zardari From The New York Times: Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistan’s new president and the widower of Benazir Bhutto, does not mince words about the growing Taliban insurgency. “It is my decision that we will go after them, we will free this country,” he told me in an interview. “Yes, this is my first priority because I will have no country otherwise. I will be president of what'” After the massive...
NC Mental Hope News (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
Corruption charges, jail terms, diagnoses of mental illness -- critics wonder if Zardari will be able to tackle nuclear-armed Pakistan's growing crisis. By Henry Chu ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — Only a year ago, Asif Ali Zardari was best known as the husband of Benazir Bhutto, a highflying businessman with a taste for fine living, polo and, his critics allege, bribes. He was a man who spent 11 years
LA Times (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
Corruption charges, jail terms, diagnoses of mental illness -- critics wonder if Zardari will be able to tackle nuclear-armed Pakistan's growing crisis. Only a year ago, Asif Ali Zardari was best known as the husband of Benazir Bhutto, a highflying businessman with a taste for fine living, polo and, his critics allege, bribes. He was a man who spent 11 years in jail while awaiting trial on unproven...
The Strata-Sphere (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
Good news is coming out today from the South Waziristan Agency of Pakistan’s FATA region. Baitullah Mehsud, a top Taliban leader and military commander claimed to be behind the assassination of Benazir Bhutto is possibly dying: Baitullah Mehsud, the head of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), is seriously ill, leading to convergence of the top TTP leadership [...]
Times of India (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
The probe into the assassination of former Pakistan PM Benazir Bhutto will cost the United Nations 40 million dollar and the world body would generate the amount through its own resources.
