Pakistan

Boston isn't the only outrage

2013-05-06 06:45:00

Most likely we all agree that the Boston bombing was cowardly, senseless, dastardly. It cries out for justice. And just about every cop in the universe was on this case, big time. But what about all the drone bombings in Pakistan, Yemen, Afghanistan,...

Maybe Majid Khan rates a stateside prison cell

2013-05-04 16:42:00

As a teenager in the mid-1990s, he moved with his parents to the United States from Pakistan. The family sought and received political asylum. They settled in Baltimore County and operated a gas station. The boy attended Owings Mills High School. His...

Despite the Boston bombings, we're safer than we think

2013-04-18 08:56:00

After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the most frequently heard forecast was: "This changes everything." Americans would live in constant fear of the next attack, many pundits predicted. The desire for safety would spawn a security state that...

Who were the children killed in Afghanistan?

2013-04-11 04:30:00

I watched 60 Minutes on Sunday and saw the anguish still being experienced by the Sandy Hook parents. Their grief has caused them to turn to action, and they are in Washington to lobby Congress to pass legislation that might prevent other gun tragedies....

Time to re-think U.S. use of drones

2013-03-21 05:15:00

Drones over Syria? Hold on! ("CIA eyes drone strikes in Syria," March 16). The whole business of drone strikes on nations with whom we are not at war gets murkier and more distasteful daily — and cries out for transparency from the Obama...

Chuck Hagel survives

2013-03-01 00:00:00

After all the thunder and lightning signifying nothing but more Republican obstructionism, former Sen. Chuck Hagel has taken over at the Pentagon, vowing a realistic approach to America's military role in the world. Not surprisingly, he indicated he...

Carroll County native killed in Afghanistan helicopter crash

2013-03-17 18:22:00

Sara Knutson Cullen was as comfortable in a dress and stiletto heels as she was smoking cigars and flying Black Hawk helicopters in Afghanistan — a driven and level-headed 27-year-old whose dreams stretched far beyond her roots in Carroll County,...

Obama returns to arms control -- just in time

2013-02-18 06:14:00

President Barack Obama's call during the State of the Union address to reduce the threat of nuclear war could not have been more timely. The day before the president spoke, North Korea tested a primitive nuclear device, and the following day reports...

The law of drones

2013-02-11 03:00:00

President Barack Obama's nominee to head the Central Intelligence Agency, John O. Brennan, was about as cagey as they come last week at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Asked right off the bat by the committee chairwoman,...

Where's the concern for the innocents killed by U.S. drones?

2012-12-29 09:30:00

President Barack Obama, the Rev. M. Cristina Paglinauan and columnist Dan Rodricks all have expressed sorrow and outrage over the slaughter of innocent children in Newtown, Conn. ("Stand vigil for gun victims and new laws," Dec. 23). Yet their vocal...

Christopher Van Hollen Sr., ambassador

2013-02-03 12:55:00

Christopher Van Hollen Sr., a retired Foreign Service officer and ambassador to Sri Lanka, died of Alzheimer's disease complications Jan. 30 at the Washington Home and Hospice. The former Baltimore resident was 90. Born in Baltimore and raised in...

Local pizzeria expects Super Bowl boost

2013-02-02 00:00:00

Growing up in the industrial city of Gujrat in Pakistan, Khawar Ghafoor played cricket but knew little about American football. But in recent weeks Ghafoor, the owner of a Towson pizzeria, has been captivated by the Baltimore Ravens' run to the Super...

Pakistani paramilitary fighters move a patient in the Bolan Medical Complex in Quetta after it was attacked by militants.

2013-06-15 00:00:00

Retired British Royal Navy Lt. Cmdr. Howard Leedham, right, signs a copy of his book, "Ask Forgivemess Not Permission: The True Story of an Operation in Pakistan's Badlands" for Sean Guy of Greencastle, Pa., Thursday at the Visitors Welcome Center in Hagerstown's Public Square.

2013-06-13 00:00:00

A boy jumps into a water canal to cool himself with others on a hot day in the eastern city of Lahore. Temperatures reached 43 degrees Celsius (109 degrees Fahrenheit) in Lahore as weather remained hot and dry in other parts of the country, according to the Pakistan Meteorological Department.

2013-06-09 00:00:00