Source: AP
Some of the women were eating lunch, while others were busy making bread.
Then, the bombs fell like rain.
Pakistan’s latest military offensive against Taliban-led insurgents in its northwest had reached 60-year-old Haya Bibi and her extended family. They soon abandoned their mud homes in the Bajur tribal region and joined an exodus of tens of […]

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Source: Trib

By Robert Novak
Yousuf Raza Gilani, prime minister of Pakistan, will lunch with George W. Bush in the White House on July 28. That will not be merely another of the president’s routine meetings with foreign leaders. As Pakistan’s democratically elected government and U.S. diplomats understand, the lunch symbolizes a turn away from Washington’s […]

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