The United States pays Pakistan about one billion dollars a year for its participation in counterterrorism operations along the border with Afghanistan, The New York Times reported on its website Saturday.
The Bush administration fears that cutting off cash or linking it to performance will further destabilize Pakistan's president, according to some officials. Left, a Pakistani soldier near the border with Afghanistan. Pakistan has reduced its counterterrorism patrols.
The Bush administration fears that cutting off cash or linking it to performance will further destabilizing Pakistan?s president, according to some officials.
A hardline Islamic seminary in Islamabad, Pakistan, releases two of four policemen kidnapped on Friday.
SYDNEY, Australia (Reuters) -- All-rounder Shahid Afridi smashed 73 off just 34 balls to lead Pakistan to a five-wicket victory over Sri Lanka in the first of three one-day internationals in Abu Dhabi on Friday.
Pakistan's capital Islamabad was on high alert Saturday following another assault on police outside the city's notorious "Red Mosque." Four police officers were kidnapped on Friday by students from the mosque, which has developed a reputation for drawing
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, 5:14 p.m. May 19 (AP): President Gen. Pervez Musharraf acknowledged that Islamic militancy was increasing across Pakistan and said tough measures were needed to counter it, as religious students from a pro-Taliban mosque abducted four police officers.
Dozens of gunmen ambushed a vehicle carrying eight government officials and kidnapped them in a troubled northwestern tribal region of Pakistan, officials said Saturday.
ABU DHABI — Inzamamul Haq has got some cricket left in him and Pakistan need him badly at Test level. There are some reports that Inzamam's dictatorial attitude was one of the cause of Pakistan's abysmal performance during the recently concluded World Cup in West Indies.
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf delivers a speech during a conference in Islamabad, 15 May 2007. According to The New York Times, the United States pays Pakistan about one billion dollars a year for its participation in counterterrorism operations along the border with Afghanistan and the payments continue even though Pakistani President had decided to slash patrols through the area where ...