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Pakistan is fighting al Qaeda and the Taliban for its own interests, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said on Saturday as he embarked on his first official visit to the United States.
Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani vowed to fight extremism and terrorism as he embarked Saturday on an official visit to Washington where he will meet US President George W. Bush.
PERTH, Australia -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Pakistan needs to do more to prevent Taliban militants from launching attacks into Afghanistan from its territory.
Bombings by militants have destroyed a government-run girls' high school and several shops in the Swat Valley of northern Pakistan, police said Friday.
Five months after a new democratically elected government swept into power, Pakistan is facing a deep crisis and widespread criticism that nobody seems to be doing anything about the problems.
Pro-Taliban militants freed eight of the dozens of paramilitary troops and government officials they have been holding hostage for nearly two weeks in northwestern Pakistan, officials and a negotiator said on Friday.
Five months after a new government swept into power, Pakistan is in crisis. No one seems to be in charge — especially when it comes to an anti-Taliban strategy. The new prime minister is due to meet President Bush, but Washington may be talking to the wrong person.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says Pakistan should do more to stop the rise in terrorist violence in neighboring Afghanistan.
Pakistan needs to do more to prevent Taliban militants from launching attacks into Afghanistan from its territory, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday.
The United States and Australia on Friday urged Pakistan to do more to control militant activity in its border areas to stem the growing insurgency in Afghanistan.
The American secretary of state said Pakistan needed to do more to prevent Taliban militants from launching attacks into Afghanistan from its territory.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Pakistan needs to do more to prevent Taliban militants from launching attacks into Afghanistan from its territory.
Police say militants have blown up a girls school and 10 shops in northwestern Pakistan. There were no casualties.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Friday that Pakistan needed to do more to help curb the flow of militants across its border into Afghanistan as the Taliban had increased terrorist activity.
In the area around Parachinar, the Taliban have inflamed a long-running sectarian conflict between Sunnis and Shiites that has left the town under siege.
The United States plans to shift about $230 million in aid to Pakistan from counterterrorism programs to upgrading the nation's aging F-16 fighter jets.
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