PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A police official says gunmen have killed a Pakistani working as the director of public relations at the Iranian Consulate ...
Dr. Charles G. Cogan | Posted 11.04.2009 | World
The center is the Pak Army, and the central question today is whether the Army, the steel frame of Pakistani society, can hold the line against the rising tide of Islamist radicalism.
AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 10.31.2009 | World
ISLAMABAD — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton faced sharp rebukes from Pakistani audiences Friday, including one woman who accused ...
nytimes.com | ERIC SCHMITT | Posted 10.29.2009 | World
WASHINGTON - Even as the Pakistani government plays down the American role in its military operations in Taliban-controlled areas along the border wit...
Maria Tirmizi | Posted 10.28.2009 | World
Panic-stricken text messages are making the rounds, warning friends and family against possible future target areas.
AP | ASIF SHAHZAD | Posted 10.28.2009 | World
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan pressed an offensive deeper into Taliban territory along the Afghan border Tuesday, claiming to have killed 42 militants in...
Huffington Post | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
The Obama Administration has increased the scope of the U.S. government's two drone programs, writes Jane Mayer in an article in the New Yorker. "Acc...
nytimes.com | DAVID ROHDE | Posted 10.20.2009 | World
A NERVOUS-LOOKING Pakistani soldier pointed a rocket-propelled grenade at our pickup truck in late January. The Taliban guard beside me loaded his rif...
AP | CHRIS BRUMMITT | Posted 10.21.2009 | World
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Suicide bombers attacked an Islamic university popular with foreigners in Pakistan's capital Tuesday, killing four student...
AP | ISHTIAQ MAHSUD and NAHAL TOOSI | Posted 10.18.2009 | World
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Pakistani soldiers attacked militant bases in the main al-Qaida and Taliban stronghold along the Afghan border Satu...
AP | KATHY GANNON | Posted 10.17.2009 | World
ISLAMABAD — The Pakistani military is setting its sights on the Taliban's remote sanctuary after nearly two weeks of big bombings across the cou...
Telegraph | Dean Nelson, South Asia Editor | Posted 10.15.2009 | World
The policy adviser to foreign minister Rangeen Dadfar Spanta, said the British and American governments were fully aware of the ISI's role but lacked ...
AP | RAVI NESSMAN | Posted 10.12.2009 | World
ISLAMABAD — A week of terror strikes across Pakistan, capped by a stunning assault on army headquarters, show the Taliban have rebounded and app...
AP | MOHAMMAD YUSUF | Posted 10.11.2009 | World
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — Pakistan's army says commandos have caught the last militant who attacked its headquarters and took dozens of hostages. ...
nytimes.com | PETER BAKER and ERIC SCHMITT | Posted 10.08.2009 | World
President Obama's national security team is moving to reframe its war strategy by emphasizing the campaign against Al Qaeda in Pakistan while arguing ...
npr.org | Jackie Northam | Posted 10.07.2009 | World
The debate on Afghanistan has riveted Congress, the Pentagon and policy-watchers as the Obama administration reviews its current strategy. Following a...
Jamie Metzl | Posted 10.01.2009 | World
Just back from Afghanistan, I began to daydream about Karzai speaking directly to the American people to take responsibility for his government's failings and seek support for U.S. engagement in the country.
ANI | Posted 09.29.2009 | World
LAHORE: Ex-Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf has admitted that his government's secret agreement with the Taliban had backfired. The Taliban had mi...
nytimes.com | ERIC SCHMITT and MARK MAZZETTI | Posted 09.24.2009 | World
WASHINGTON �" Senior Taliban leaders, showing a surprising level of sophistication and organization, are using their sanctuary in Pakistan to stoke ...
Saad Khan | Posted 09.22.2009 | World
Pakistan is one of those unfortunate countries where the elite classes have virtually taken over every aspect of life and have left no breathing space for the public.
DAWN.COM | Posted 11.16.2009 | World
ESHAWAR: Pakistan said soldiers Wednesday arrested a third man from a list of most-wanted Taliban commanders in the Swat valley that offered hundreds ...
Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 11.11.2009 | World
Obama has a very tough decision to make: whether or not to accept the troop level increase recommendation from his field commanders under mounting pressure from some prominent Congressional Democrats to reject it.
Mark Juergensmeyer | Posted 11.10.2009 | World
Recently we convened a workshop of senior scholars of South Asia studies and asked them to evaluate the US role in the region. They agreed upon the following five principles as the bases for formulating a new policy
Al Jazeera English | Posted 11.08.2009 | World
At least 10 people have been killed after a suspected US drone fired missiles into Pakistan's North Waziristan region, Pakistani intelligence has said...
Saad Khan | Posted 11.08.2009 | World
The urban lower- and middle-class of Pakistan is fast becoming a hostage to Islamists. In recent years, numerous Islamic organizations have been set up, many of which cater to average Pakistani urban women.
AP | HABIB KHAN | Posted 11.12.2009 | World