May 14 Helping women with career-building and empowerment in Pakistan By Larisa Epatko ISLAMABAD, Pakistan | Saima Anwar lives in the Swat area of northern Pakistan. Her family was poor and couldn't pay for her education, so she worked a part-time job to get through school. But when she wanted to become a… Continue reading
May 07 Watch News Wrap: CIA Reportedly Foils New al-Qaida Underwear Bomb Plot In other news Monday, The Associated Press reported that the CIA disrupted a plot to bomb an airliner -- around the first anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death. Also, a key suspect in the 2002 nightclub bombings in Bali apologized… Continue watching
May 04 Watch In Abbottabad, Bin Laden Lived in 'Prison of His Own Making' For a decade after 9/11, Osama bin Laden was the most hunted man in the world. This week, more details emerged about the operation and the relentless, often frustrated intelligence effort that led to his death a year ago. Margaret… Continue watching
May 03 Watch News Wrap: Bin Laden Documents Reveal Planned Attacks on Obama, Petraeus In other news Thursday, some documents seized in last year's raid on Osama bin Laden's Pakistani compound were released, revealing plans to carry out attacks on high-profile American targets, such as President Obama and Gen. David Petraeus. In Syria, security… Continue watching
May 01 Watch Obama's Afghanistan Pact: What it Does, What it Doesn't Do President Obama made a surprise visit Tuesday to Afghanistan to mark the first anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden. Gwen Ifill gets an update from the AP's Patrick Quinn in Kabul plus analysis of the agreement the president… Continue watching
Apr 30 Watch A Year After Bin Laden's Death, How Strong Is al-Qaida? A year ago, a U.S. strike successfully eliminated al-Qaida's leader, but Osama bin Laden's death was just one step in the decline of the most feared terror network in the world. Judy Woodruff, The Washington Post's David Ignatius and the… Continue watching
Apr 30 Watch A Year After Bin Laden Death, U.S. Maintains Drone Campaign Against al-Qaida A Year After Bin Laden Death, U.S. Maintains Drone Campaign vs. aAl-Qaida… Continue watching
Apr 30 Inside a Madrassa in Pakistan By Larisa Epatko KARACHI, Pakistan | The Jamia Binoria Madrassa in downtown Karachi is considered one of Pakistan's more moderate Islamic institutions. Within these whitewashed concrete walls, students receive a mixture of secular and religious education. Continue reading
Apr 26 Watch News Wrap: Pakistani Prime Minister Convicted, Gets 'Symbolic' Sentence In other news Thursday, Pakistan's Supreme Court convicted Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani of contempt for refusing to pursue a corruption case against President Asif Ali Zardari. However, the ruling carried only a symbolic sentence, allowing Gilani to stay in… Continue watching
Apr 24 Opposition Politician Imran Khan: How to Fix Pakistan's Corruption, Terrorism By Larisa Epatko ISLAMABAD, Pakistan | From his veranda, cricket player-turned-politician Imran Khan recently told a group of visiting U.S. journalists that if he were in charge of Pakistan, he would introduce a streamlined, non-corrupt government and withdraw all troops from Pakistan's troubled… Continue reading