AlJazeera (Arabic) on Pakistan. I have criticized Ahmad Zaydan (Islamabad bureau chief for Al-Jazeera) before. I have said that he is unabashedly biased in favor of Taliban and Al-Qa`idah in his reporting. For example, he puts on Khalid Rahmand as "an expert" without informing audiences (he also appears on AlJazeera English) that he is with Jamaat-e-Islami. Also, even when a dozen or more of militant fundamentalists demonstrate in Islamabad or anywhere else in Pakistan they are uniformly covered. During this recent crisis: all the person-in-the-street interviews where with people sympathetic to the folks at Lal mosque. There were public opinion surveys published in Pakistan in which something like 80% of the public supported Musharraf in this crisis (these were prior to storming of the mosque). None of that appears in his reporting. Also, civic associations in Pakistan issued a strong statement basically calling on Musharraf to not show any mercy with the rebels (do you notice that liberals in Pakistan and in the Arab world support dictators and crackdowns against "enemies of the state"?). But that was not in his reporting. I know that he has good access in the country, and that Taliban people open up to him. But his coverage is not what one is accustomed in AlJazeera reporting. Beirut bureau, for example, talks to all sides in Lebanon.