Pakistan is not the safest place for western visitors these days, but English filmmaker Michael Winterbottom knew he had to shoot his movie about murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl on location in the world's largest military regime.
Pakistan's foreign minister on Tuesday said his country was not in turmoil and urged the West to do more to help fight militants in the wild frontier region along the border with Afghanistan.
LONDON, June 19 -- Pakistan formally complained to Britain on Tuesday over the decision to grant knighthood to British author Salman Rushdie, whose 1988 book "The Satanic Verses" resulted in death threats against him from Muslims who saw the novel as an attack on Islam.
An explosion in a tribal area near the Afghan border killed at least 30 people Tuesday in northwest Pakistan.
Pakistan's foreign minister said Tuesday that Britain should not be surprised by the violent reaction in the Muslim world to the knighthood awarded to writer Salman Rushdie.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that Washington was concerned about the political crisis in Pakistan and underlined the need for "free and fair" elections.
A missile attack killed at least 17 pro-Taliban militants in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region bordering Afghanistan, Pakistani television news channels reported on Tuesday.
Pakistan summoned the British ambassador to the foreign ministry on Tuesday, officials from both sides said, amid mounting anger at the award of a knighthood to author Salman Rushdie.
A suspected missile attack on a militant hideout in a remote area of northwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border killed at least 32 insurgents, sources tell CBS News .
The US Congressional hearing was marked by frustration. The topic was whether Pakistan was honoring its promises to help the United States fight terrorism and nuclear nonproliferation.