You have to wonder what is going on in the minds of Pakistan’s leaders as the Pakistani Taliban seemingly retreat from their defiant occupation of a district dangerously close to the nation’s capital –- a crisis that has left the country and the world on edge.
Are President Asif Ali Zardari and his advisors so confident [...]

When Benazir Bhutto, the recently assassinated former prime minister of Pakistan, returned to her homeland some months ago, more than a few of my informed sources made reference to a “dead woman walking.”
It was, they said, only a matter of time before her violent, religiously extreme adversaries would make good on their threats and claim [...]