CBC.ca | Drawing Down, With a Vigilant Eye on Pakistan New York Times Firefighters trying to extinguish a blazing oil tanker that was set on fire Sunday by gunmen in Quetta, Pakistan. The truck was carrying fuel for NATO forces in Afghanistan. By DAVID E. SANGER WASHINGTON — Hours after the Sept. ... Senator Baucus says bring troops home from Afghanistan and focus on Pakistan US insists Pakistan keep anti-terror pledges: Obama Obama warns Pakistan, insists Islamabad keep anti-terror pledges |
BBC News | Army quizzes four majors The Nation, Pakistan ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Army said Wednesday it had questioned four majors over links to the banned Hizbul Tahrir group. Their questioning follows the arrest last month of a brigadier, who was serving in military headquarters in Rawalpindi, ... Pakistan Army Questions More Officers About Suspected Militant Ties HT had coup plans Four Pakistan majors interrogated |
The Nation, Pakistan | Obama, Zardari Discuss Strained US-Pakistani Ties Voice of America It also said President Obama appreciated Pakistan's effort in the fight against militancy. President Zardari said the fight against extremism was in Pakistan's own interest and that it had to fight it to the finish. The two presidents also agreed on ... Osama bin Laden wife to leave Pakistan for Yemen President Obama telephones Pakistan's Zardari Hitchens' Pakistan Polemic Draws Flack |
The radicalization of Pakistan's military Washington Post As US forces are gradually withdrawn over the next three years, it is Pakistan's 600000-strong army that will become the dominant military force in the region and will try to shape its future. But that military is undergoing a deep internal crisis of ... The other face of Pakistan's ISI Pakistan in the grip of jihadis At a fork in the road |
swissinfo.ch | Indo-Pak talks begin today; 26/11 trial tops the agenda NDTV.com New Delhi: India and Pakistan begin the two-day Foreign Secretaries level talks in Islamabad today. Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao and her Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir are expected to discuss the slow progress in the 26/11 trial and the ... India, Pakistan to hold peace talks India, Pakistan Foreign Secretary-level talks open today Ban plans taking up Kashmir |
Sydney Morning Herald | Are Pakistan's Taliban using children as weapons? Christian Science Monitor A 9-year-old girl says she was kidnapped in Pakistan by Taliban with the intent of forcing her to be a suicide bomber. She escaped, but her experience raises concerns about the use of children by militants. By Owais Tohid, Correspondent / June 22, ... 9-year-old girl told to be suicide bomber, Pakistan police say Girl 'forced into suicide vest' Pakistan police detain nine-year-old schoolgirl wearing bomb |
The Hindu | Gilani pledges fair AJK polls The Nation, Pakistan “The Pakistan Peoples Party government will hold fair and transparent elections in Azad Jammu and Kashmir. We do not want to be blamed for rigging or fake polls as being done in the Indian-held Kashmir,” Gilani said while addressing a mammoth public ... Pakistan's future linked to resolution of Kashmir: Gilani Pakistan''s future linked to resolution of K-issue: Gilani Home National Future of Pakistan closely linked to resolution of Kashmir ... |
The Hindu | Anna: Corruption more serious threat than Pakistan Hindustan Times Terming corruption a threat “more serious than Pakistan”, social activist Anna Hazare demanded that the corporate sector, too, be brought under the purview of the forthcoming anti-corruption ombudsman, the lokal. The suggestion to include the corporate ... Politician-Bureaucrate Nexus Bigger Threat Than Pakistan : Anna Hazare |
The Express Tribune | 'I sacrificed power to protect Army' The Nation, Pakistan MIRPUR (AJK) – Pakistan Muslim League-N Quaid Mian Nawaz Sharif has stated that the then Prime Minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee had assured him that the Kashmir issue would be resolved by the year 1999 but Musharraf embarked upon the Kargil war ... Battlefield Punjab to decide fate of war on terror Zardari has plunged country into darkness, says Nawaz Chief minister to transfer foreign assets to Pakistan |
CTV.ca | The Best Defense: Obama on Afghanistan: A sneak preview Foreign Policy In one of the first foreign policy speeches of his presidential campaign, delivered at Washington's Woodrow Wilson Center on August 1, 2007, then-candidate Obama outlined his views on Afghanistan and Pakistan and foreshadowed his administration's ... Flood of US weapons in Afghanistan and Pakistan fueling militant groups ... Dialogue with Taliban futile sans Pakistan ISAF captures 'foreign fighter' facilitator in southeastern Afghanistan |