The United States is urging Pakistan's military to focus more on the Taliban and extremists advancing inside their borders instead of the nation's longtime enemy — India. Complete Story...
Pakistan was trying to end bloodshed when it let the idyllic Swat Valley fall under Islamic law last week. Instead, it has emboldened the Taliban and prompted an invitation — however improbable — for Osama bin Laden.
Taliban militants who had seized a district just 60 miles (100 kilometers) from Pakistan's capital began pulling out Friday after the government warned it would use force to evict them.
International donors, led by the United States and Japan, pledged more than $5 billion Friday to stabilize Pakistan's troubled economy and fight the spread of terrorism in the Islamic nation and neighboring Afghanistan.
Pakistan's beleaguered leaders are hoping for up to $6 billion in international support as they attempt to steer the Islamic world's only nuclear-armed nation through a rising storm of extremist violence and economic woes.
The newly released leader of the radical Red Mosque called Friday for the enforcement of Islamic law across the militancy-plagued country during his defiant return to his prayer hall, where at least 100 died when Pakistani troops stormed the complex in 2007.
A separatist politician whose mutilated body was found in Pakistan's restive southwest had helped secure the release of a kidnapped American U.N. worker, the U.S. Embassy said.
Pakistani and U.S. officials called Tuesday for more trust between their countries to counter al-Qaida and the Taliban, but Pakistan's foreign minister reiterated his government's opposition to American airstrikes on its soil.
President Barack Obama says NATO is committed to strengthening Pakistan's ability to meet the needs of its people.
At least 62 people suffocated to death in the back of a truck packed with illegal migrants, and dozens were rescued unconscious after Pakistani police acting on a tip opened the vehicle Saturday near the Afghan border.
The hard-line Muslim cleric who has mediated peace talks between Pakistan and the Taliban in the Swat Valley packed up and left the northwestern district Thursday, angrily denouncing the president for failing to sign off on imposing Islamic law in the area.
Pakistani authorities ordered inquiries Friday into a video showing the public flogging of a screaming woman in a northwestern valley where officials have yielded to Taliban demands for Islamic law.
President Barack Obama says his Afghanistan war strategy does not envision NATO troops in Pakistan.
Pakistan will host international cricket tours again but not in the immediate future, International Cricket Council president David Morgan said Thursday.
The Obama administration plans to seek as much as $3 billion over the next five years to train and equip Pakistan's military, and is considering sending 10,000 more troops to battle the Taliban in Afghanistan, defense officials said Wednesday.
Counterterrorism officials are warning police of a threat made by Pakistan's Taliban chief to attack the U.S.
Pakistan's Supreme Court on Tuesday restored the provincial government of a main opposition leader in the country's most powerful province, easing political turmoil.
Pakistani authorities ordered inquiries Friday into a video showing the public flogging of a screaming woman in a northwestern valley where officials have yielded to Taliban demands for Islamic law.
A look at some recent major attacks in Pakistan or blamed on Pakistan-based militants:
With Pakistan's top judge back at work, Zahida Sharif has new hope that her husband will be found, her toddler son will know his father and justice will be served.
The compound bore no sign. Residents referred to it simply as the school for "jihadi fighters," speaking in awe of the expensive horses stabled within its high walls — and the extremists who rode them bareback in the dusty fields around it. In classrooms nearby, teachers drilled boys as young as 8 in an uncompromising brand of Islam that called for holy war against enemies of the faith. Sitting cross-legged on the floor of the Dar-ul-uloom Madina school, they rocked back and forth as they recited sections of the Quran, Islam's holy book.
Dozens of suspected militants fired rockets early Saturday at a transport terminal in northwest Pakistan that is used to ship supplies to NATO troops based in Afghanistan, police said.
The Pakistan government does not believe Taliban or al-Qaida officials have moved from the tribal border region to Pakistan's southwestern-most province and would oppose expanding U.S. drone strikes there, a government official said Wednesday.
The United Nations said Wednesday it is very concerned about the health of an American official from its refugee agency who was kidnapped in Pakistan and said it is working to win his release.
A Pakistani gang-rape victim who shunned custom and rose to global fame by speaking out about her case has defied another local taboo — she just got married.
Pakistani leaders had never openly admitted that their Muslim nation actually faces a very serious internal threat from an alliance of joint Jihadi forces comprising the Al-Qaeda, Taliban and regional militant groups.
As a candidate in 2008, Barack Obama criticized George W. Bush for giving billions in aid to Pakistan even as that country made "peace treaties with the Taliban."
A Pakistani Taliban commander has ordered his fighters to withdraw from Buner district, a spokesman for the militants said on Friday.
Like the Neo Taliban of Afghanistan, the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has evolved in less than a year from a bunch of suicide bombers to a conventional army capable of set-piece, stand and fight battles with the Pakistani Army and para-military forces.
"The Taliban have been welcomed in Buner, as they were in Swat," by many residents. One man says "The only people who are unhappy are the thieves, murderers and criminals."
Pakistan -- Taliban militants began pulling out of a recently seized district of northwestern Pakistan on Friday, a local official and the insurgents said, after the government warned it would remove them by force.
From flower shows (AFP) to ribbon cuttings, hints of normalcy are returning to Iraq.
The 12 students arrested for terrorism realted charges, all freed not to be free but to held by the immigration department to deport them and gagging them under " not desirables". What have they done nothing, yet we are deporting them for our failings.
Stating that the rapid expansion of the Taliban in Pakistan is very "disturbing", the US on Friday said the Obama Administration's proposed economic aid to Islamabad would be directly linked to its "ability to confront" extremism.
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States expressed extreme concern about advances by the Taliban in Pakistan and said the issue was taking up a significant amount of President Barack Obama's time.
Obama must stop protecting the real enemies of humankind--the fascistic torturers Bush, Cheney and their hatchet men and black operative Gestapo-like sadistic gangsters. In the final analysis they do not have the right.
Pakistani troops rushing to protect buildings and bridges in a Taliban-infiltrated district just 60 miles from the capital were met with gunfire Thursday that killed one police officer.
"We were basically destroying innocent lives and creating more enemies," he said in an interview with the Huffington Post. "That is exactly what is happening.
The Pakistani government "is basically abdicating to the Taliban and to the extremists," Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told Congress yesterday in an unusually blunt statement that reflects the unease within the Obama administration about an agreement authorized by Pre …
he move by Taliban-backed militants into the Buna district of northwestern Pakistan, closer than ever to Pakistan's capital of Islamabad, have prompted concerns both within the country and abroad that the nuclear-armed nation of 165 million is on the verge of inexorable collapse.
I think it's fair to say that Pakistan is now two countries. There's the portion held by the government in Islamabad, and then there's the rest of the country, which includes the frontier provinces and a shifting border that is creeping ever closer to Islamabad.
I hope that President Obama doesn't waste one second trying to reason with these guys. Taliban are the Nazis of this era. They simply need to be stopped cold in there tracks.
The Pakistani government "is basically abdicating to the Taliban and to the extremists," Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told Congress yesterday in an unusually blunt statement that reflects the unease within the Obama administration about an agreement authorized by Pre …
WASHINGTON, April 22 (UPI) -- Nuclear-armed Pakistan is becoming a "mortal threat" to the world, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told the House Foreign Affairs Committee Wednesday.
Henry Kissinger says Obama is pursuing "a sort of concert diplomacy, which existed for some two decades after the Napoleonic Wars, in which groupings of great powers work together to enforce international norms."
Reporting from Washington and Islamabad, Pakistan -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warned in unusually bleak terms Wednesday that Pakistan's fragile government is facing an "existential threat" from Islamic militants who are now operating within a few hours of the cap …
Pakistani paramilitary forces have been deployed to protect government buildings and bridges in a district near the capital that has been infiltrated by the Taliban, an official said Thursday.
Pushing deeper into Pakistan, Taliban militants have established effective control of a strategically important district just 70 miles from the capital, Islamabad, officials and residents said Wednesday.
The country is in great danger," Pakistan's former President Pervez Musharraf has warned. While the ex-Army chief could not be more accurate in his perception of the state of affairs in Pakistan today, his ominous comment contains an equally serious message for India.
Taliban fighters are on the move in Pakistan. They've seized a vital part of the country, only 60 miles from Islamabad. Their commander says they have a crucial goal: enforce Islamic Sharia law.