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More than 40 Islamist militants and two soldiers have been killed in the latest fighting in Pakistan's troubled northwest near the Afghan border, paramilitary force officials said on Tuesday.
The police surrounded Pakistan?s biggest stock exchange to thwart violence by investors demanding a trading halt.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A worsening economic crisis in Pakistan is pushing millions more people into poverty, and experts fear that it could help Islamic extremists recruit new converts.
A U.S. citizen was arrested on unspecified charges Monday in a rugged tribal area of Pakistan that borders Afghanistan and is forbidden to most foreigners, a Pakistani official said.
Pakistani police were questioning a 20-year-old U.S. citizen who was arrested close to the Afghan border, as new clashes in the region killed 17 militants, officials said Tuesday.
Troops and helicopter gunships killed about 40 Taliban militants while four people, including a politician, were injured in a roadside bomb in northwest Pakistan, officials said Monday.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP)--Pakistani police Tuesday questioned a man they said was a U.S. citizen arrested near the Afghan border in the remote tribal region known to be a hub of al-Qaida and Taliban militants.
Some analysts and diplomats fear that Pakistan could come to exemplify a perilous new phenomenon: a strategic but unstable state at risk of being pushed to the breaking point by external economic factors.
Top U.S. policymakers are declaring victory in Iraq and switching their focus to Afghanistan and Pakistan, where Islamist violence continues to surge following the fall of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf.
(RTTNews) - The Pakistan rupee lost ground after hitting a 6-day high of 78.50 against the US dollar during early Asian deals on Tuesday. At 1:05 am ET, the rupee plunged to a fresh record low of 79.99 against the US dollar, compared to 79.10 hit late New York Monday.
(RTTNews) - Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari Monday said violations of the country's borders "would not be tolerated" even as U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan stepped up cross-border attacks on Islamic militants in Pakistan's tribal areas, media reports said.
Afghanistan is more violent than at any time since the war to oust the Taliban seven years ago. The most notable deterioration in security in recent months has been in Afghan provinces bordering Pakistan, places the U.S. military used to tout as the greatest success stories.
A 20-year-old Florida man was arrested Monday at a checkpoint near the Afghan border of Pakistan, a hotbed region of fighting between Taliban forces, Al Qaeda and Pakistani troops.
KARACHI -(Dow Jones)- Pakistan's Karachi Stock Exchange is likely to lift the two-month old stock floor from Oct. 27 after banks and financial institutions gave assurances on providing liquidity, a director at the bourse said late Monday.
Already nearly broke when the global financial crisis took hold, Pakistan now faces further woes that could take the nuclear-armed nation's security situation closer to the edge, experts said.
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has warned a brewing row with India over the waters of the Chenab river in the disputed Kashmir region could harm improving ties between the old rivals.
