There is something wrong in Pakistan with daughters. But with Friday prayers at the mosques this week, the tag line “my daughter is a blessing, not a curse,” is the official message that Imams across Pakistan have been preaching.
The United States was not going to win any popularity contests in Pakistan, even before May 2nd. Then the operation heightened tensions between Washington and Islamabad. Marco Werman talks with The Guardian’s correspondent Declan Walsh.
Embarrassed, Pakistanis Deny Bin Laden Was in Their Country
There’s a growing sense of anger in Pakistan over the bin Laden killing as well as embarrassment that he was hiding in their country. Did the Pakistani government know that he was there?
Sohaib Athar, a resident of Abbottabad, Pakistan, live-tweeted the raid on Osama bin Laden compound. His reaction to bin Laden’s death was “there goes the neighborhood.” The World’s Marco Werman explores the various possible meanings of that phrase.
Thomas Gillespie led a study that used scientific methods that tried to predict the whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden. He wasn’t that far off. Gillespie employed theories normally used by scientists to predict the distribution of endangered species.
