Hawjin Hama Rashid, a feisty journalist in jeans and a frilly blouse, had come to the morgue in this Kurdish city to research tribal killings of women. ...more

December 21, 2008

Slim-Fast Campaign Now that this election cycle has ended, it is time to evaluate the election process and the wear and tear on American citizens. This cycle has lasted almost two years. It proved to be the most expensive election in U.S. history and the most tiresome. This campaign trend cannot continue unchecked. ...more

November 4, 2008

A son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is behind a group of foreign and Iraqi fighters responsible for Wednesday's devastating explosion in northern Iraq, a security chief for Sunni tribesmen who rose up against al-Qaida said Saturday. ...more

January 27, 2008

Opposition leader Nawaz Sharif will make another attempt to return from exile, his party said Thursday, setting up a new confrontation with President Gen. Pervez Musharraf before Pakistan's critical parliamentary elections. ...more

November 23, 2007

Regarding "Pakistan: An Uncertain Ally" (Nation/World, Nov.): Sam Rashid needs to be glad that he has been able to go to his native Pakistan every year up until a couple of years ago. I have not been able to go home to my native Kashmir since 1989. My wish to visit home may be nostalgic, but the rest of my family who lived in Kashmir for centuries were forced from their own land and had to live like refugees in their own country. Such has been the situation for two decades in Kashmir, where Kashmiri Muslim militants trained by Taliban and al-Qaeda forces in Pakistan forced their Hindu neighbors to either leave or be killed. My father was shot by his Muslim friends on Aug. 24, 1990. ...more

November 8, 2007

Sam Rashid is a naturalized American born in Pakistan. He is a Brandon businessman and political activist. He left Pakistan at age 9 and has been in the United States for 25 years. Up until a couple of years ago, he visited his homeland nearly every year. ...more

November 4, 2007