Blog posts tagged "Pakistan"

May 17, 2011 6:47 am 5 Comments

"Are our interests really being served by the growth of what look perilously close to highly trained mercenary forces? What measures are being taken by the UN and the international community to regulate these things?"

May 4, 2011 7:44 am 25 Comments

Is Pakistan's assertion that they had no knowledge of the bin Laden compound simply incompetence or are the already mounting conspiracies more than just theories?

May 2, 2011 11:24 am 35 Comments

Osama's death raises questions for Pakistan - and for the rest of the world still faced with the threat of fundamentalism fuelled by inequality, poverty and hypocrisy.

January 5, 2011 11:33 am 42 Comments

The killing in Pakistan of the Governor of Punjab by his own bodyguard on Tuesday, marks a devastating new high water mark both inside and outside that country, blogs Jon Snow.

November 16, 2010 9:25 am 31 Comments

As school boys we were excited to learn that Western spies could now read number plates in Moscow’s Red Square - that was well over three decades ago. How come then, as the freed kidnap victims Paul and Rachel Chandler return home, a bunch of crude Somali pirates are able to run rings around the most sophisticated navies the world has ever known?

August 28, 2010 11:42 am 19 Comments

A dead body in Europe, more fish in Iceland and flooding in Pakistan and Niger: Jon Snow writes on four global climate change warnings and the lack of debate.

October 29, 2009 12:38 pm 18 Comments

Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow remembers his trip through Pakistan in 1970 following the bombing in Peshawar.

March 5, 2009 11:45 am No Comments

I return from my “hostile environment” course with the word exsanguate ringing in my ears. It’s not a word I knew. But you cannot deal with battlefield scenarios without coming across the appalling prospect of an arterial bleed. Pumping red, the stuff exsanguates from the body, and the only response, if it is in the [...]