Pakistan

Seeing the invisible people of Pakistan

With so many forces fighting against it, why aren't we fighting more for Pakistan?

By Mustafa Hameed | Sep 16 09:17 pm ET

Student uses Facebook to raise money for Pakistan

Hundreds of people began exchanging information and inquiring about ways to help in the Pakistan relief effort.

By Leah Greenbaum | Sep 13 02:20 am ET

Pakistani student group raises funds, awareness

For 8.5 million people, the July flash flood that left 1/5 of the country underwater has meant utter devastation. For Cheema and other Pakistani students, it has been a call to action.

By Leah Greenbaum | Sep 9 01:34 am ET

Karachi Mayor Kamal speaks at Global Mayors Forum

Karachi Mayor Syed Mustafa Kamal discussed his role governing a rising economic city in a country plagued with violent conflict.

By Shira Poliak | Nov 10 04:29 am ET

Perspective on Pakistan

Should friendships always push aside the political and religious question, or should friendships learn to reconcile with these controversial identities?

By Henna Mahmood | Oct 4 06:25 pm ET

Rethinking Pakistan-U.S. relations

The United States must at all costs fundamentally change the way it deals with Pakistan.

By Taimur Malik | Apr 14 10:30 pm ET

CC, SIPA Grad Working for U.N. Kidnapped in Pakistan

A suspected separatist group holding John Solecki, a Columbia College and School of International and Public Affairs graduate, said on Sunday that it would kill him in four days if the Pakistani government did not release more than 1,000 imprisoned members of Baluchistan separatist groups, according to an article in the New York Times.

By Kim Kirschenbaum | Mar 4 10:34 pm ET

Bringing to Light the Victims of Islamabad

On Saturday, Sept. 20th, 2008 at 7:50 p.m., a suicide bomber blew up a truck filled with 600 kilograms of explosives in front of the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan.

By Saira Siddiqui | Sep 28 09:49 pm ET

Bhutto Sees Politics, Pakistan Firsthand

In light of her country’s upcoming elections, Fatima Bhutto, BC ’02 and the estranged niece of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, prefers the might of the pen to that of the sword—and

By Joy Resmovits | Nov 29 06:30 am ET

Pakistan and the U.S.: a Devious Relationship

This week the Pakistani dictator, Pervez Musharraf, declared emergency rule in his troubled country. Emergency rule is one of the more heinous euphemisms that proliferate in political discourse.

By Matt Kennard | Nov 8 10:26 pm ET

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