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Aziz A. Munshi Former Law Minister, Justice (R) Saeed uz Zaman Siddiqui Former Chief Justice of Pakistan and S. M. Zafar Former Law Minister in Special episode of Capital Talk and discusses with Hamid Mir.

A Sikh journalist thrown shoe over Indian Home Minister P. Chidambram here during a press conference.

Jeffrey Goldberg responded yesterday to my post detailing his long list of journalistic malfeasance by telling me that he and the Prime Minister of Iraqi Kuridstan would like me to travel there to hear how much the Kurds appreciate the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Leaving aside the complete non sequitur that is his response -- how does that remotely pertain to Goldberg's granting of anonymity to his friends to smear people they don't like or the serial fear-mongering fabrications he spread about the Saddam threat prior to the invasion? -- I don't need to travel to Kurdistan to know that many Kurds, probably most, are happy that the U.S. attacked Iraq. For that minority in Northern Iraq, what's not to like? They had foreign countries (the U.S. and its "partners") expend their citizens' lives and treasure to rid the Kurds of their hated enemy; they received semi-autonomy, substantial oil revenues, a thriving relationship with Israel, and real political power; the overwhelming majority of the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis whose lives were snuffed out and the millions of people displaced by the war were not Kurds, and most of the destruction took place in Central and Southern Iraq away from their towns and homes, while they remain largely free of the emergent police state tactics of the current Iraqi government. As Ali Gharib put it to Goldberg: "there are at least 600,000 Iraqis who, I imagine, are not too thrilled about the way it all turned out and with whom Greenwald will never get a meeting."

Aijaz Hussain Jukhrani, Marrvi Meman MNA PML-Q, Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif Former Chief Minister Punjab, Mamoona Hashmi MAN PML-N, in special episode of Kal Tak Disqualified with Javed Chaudhry.

Dr. Abdul Qudeer Khan Atomic Scientist, Ali Moeen Nawazish Pakistani Student Nominated for GBWR, Senator Babar Awan Fed. Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, in special episode of Kal Tak Disqualified with Javed Chaudhry.

Iftekhar Ahmed presents a fresh episode of Jawab Dhay talk with Qamar uz Zaman Qaira, Federal Minister of Kashmir Affairs.

Ameer Haider Khan Hoti Chief Minister NWFP, in fresh episode of Live with Talat Discusses Currant Issue with Talat Hussain.

LAHORE: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that People's Party Co-chairman, President Asif Ali Zardari will decide whether the party will sit on government or opposition benches in Punjab. He said the eyes of the international media are focussed over the situation of Punjab.

Shaukat Tareen Finance Minister, Shahid Javed Burki, Sartaj Aziz and Dr. Salman Shah in fresh episode of Islamabad Tonight & discusses current budget with Nadeem Malik.

Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi addressing a joint news conference with visiting US special envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke and chairman US Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen here.

Zahid Hussain Analyst, Raja Sanaullah PML-N, Mian Ifrikhar Hussain Provincial Minister, in fresh episode of Second Opinion & Discusses Currant Issue With Asma Sherazi.

Shehzad Roy President Zindagi Trust for free Education, Mir Hazar Khan Bajarani Federal Minister for Education, Dr. Mufti Sarfraz Naeemi Nazim-e-Ahla Jamia Naeemia Lahore, Prof. Dr. Qasim M Jan Vice Chairman Quid-e-Azam University, Prof. Dr. Saeeda Asadullah Khan Vice Chairman Fatime Jinnah Women University, Prof. Dr. Pirzada Qasim Raza Siddiqui Vice Chancellor Karachi University, in Special episode of Capital Talk and discusses with Hamid Mir.

Shah Mehmood Qureshi Foreign Minister of Pakistan and Muhammad Sadiq Pakistani Ambassador to Afghanistan in fresh episode of Live with Talat and discusses current issues with Syed Talat Hussain.

Babar Ghouri MQM, Shaukat Tareen and Senator Ishaq Dar Former Finance Minister in fresh episode of Capital Talk and discusses with Hamid Mir.

A new investigation of the media's false reporting of the Saddam-statute story reveals ongoing press pathologies

law enforcement official says the FBI has opened an investigation into allegations media mogul Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. sought to hack into the phones of Sept. 11 victims. The official spoke Thursday to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak publicly. New York City-based News Corp. has been in crisis mode because of a scandal that sank its UK newspaper the News of the World. A rival newspaper reported last week the News of the World had hacked into the phone of UK teenage murder victim Milly Dowler in 2002 and may have impeded a police investigation into her disappearance. More possible victims soon emerged, including former Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Murdoch says his media company will recover from any damage wrought by the phone-hacking and police bribery allegations. The FBI's New York office hasn't commented.