Pakistan

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama called President Asif Ali Zardari and his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai on Thursday to tell them Washington had completed a review of its new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, officials said. According to TV reports, President Zardari expressed concern over US drone attacks in Pakistan’s tribal areas and told President […]

NEW YORK: US and Pakistani intelligence officials are drawing up a fresh list of terrorist targets for Predator drone strikes along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, part of a US review of the drone program, the Wall Street Journal said Thursday. Citing official sources the newspaper said Pakistani officials are seeking to broaden the scope of the […]

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan – Intelligence officials say at least 11 people are dead after a suicide bomber struck a restaurant in volatile northwest Pakistan. The two officials say the roadside restaurant’s visitors at the time included some two dozen militants opposed to Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud. They say several others were wounded in […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Taliban’s military campaign in southern Afghanistan is aided partly by support from operatives in Pakistan’s military intelligence agency, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. The newspaper, citing U.S. government officials, said the support for the Taliban and other militant groups was coordinated by operatives in the S Wing of Pakistan’s […]

The United Kingdom has unveiled a 174-page report on how to tackle the Al Qaeda threat facing it. The threat is no longer confined to Underground blasts but may be “a chemical or even nuclear terrorist attack”. And those who do it will possibly be linked to two unstable and extremism-haunted “Islamic” states, Pakistan and […]

MOSCOW: Russia is ‘very much concerned’ about the security of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons, and the country must be stabilised before peace can be achieved in Afghanistan, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said in an interview with US television. ‘It’s obvious to anybody that the Pak-Afghan border is a safe haven for terrorists, for the […]

WASHINGTON: The United States on Wednesday offered $ 5 million each for information leading to Baitullah Mehsud and for Sirajuddin Haqqani and $1 million for Abu Yahya al-Libi. The offer, announced two days before the unveiling of the new US strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, indicates hardening of Washington’s stance against the militants hiding along […]

WASHINGTON: Trade will be a valuable part of the new US strategy for fighting terrorism in Pakistan, says America’s top business lobby which also called for a cut in US tariffs on Pakistani textiles. President Barak Obama is expected to announce the new strategy on Friday. In a report issued on Tuesday evening, the US […]

Apart from being a bright, young journalist, Tariq Malik was also a son and a sibling who made his family proud – the same family that now sits deprived of their prized asset. Malik was brutally murdered by armed robbers on Sunday as he and his friend Imran were walking towards his house in Defence, […]

LAHORE, Pakistan — The opposition leader, Nawaz Sharif, sealed his place as the most popular politician in Pakistan this month when he defied his house detention and led a triumphant protest that forced the government to restore the country’s chief justice. Now, as the Obama administration completes its review of strategy toward the region this […]

LONDON: Home secretary, Jacqui Smith has expressed serious concerns about the impact in Britain of the deteriorating situation in Pakistan where al Qaida and groups affiliated to the Taliban are rapidly gaining influence in the federally administered tribal areas. The home secretary while briefing the media here on Tuesday following the publication of the UK […]

A peace agreement with pro-Taliban clerics has backfired in Pakistan. When a February peace deal between Pakistan’s government and pro-Taliban cleric Sufi Mohammed promised to reimpose sharia law in the country’s war-torn Swat Valley, world attention focused on the pact. Swat, once known as the “Switzerland of Pakistan,” had been consumed by a violent Taliban […]