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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Suspicions by Pakistan's powerful army that the country's civilian leadership is growing too close to the United States are fueling a political crisis that analysts here believe threatens the survival of the government and could divert attention from the battle against Islamic extremists.
Pakistan has paid out the equivalent of nearly 120,000 dollars over the arrest of a lieutenant of the country's Taliban warlord ahead of a major Muslim festival, the military said Thursday.
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Pakistan is concerned that President Barack Obama’s new Afghanistan strategy may cause Taliban militants to stream across the border and destabilize its southwest, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said.
Every morning 17-year-old Naser wakes up to make bricks, toiling for 14 hours a day, seven days a week. This is what he has done almost all his life. He's never been in school and he's never had the chance of a proper childhood.
A roadside bomb packed with steel pellets exploded in Pakistan's violence-plagued northwestern city of Peshawar on Thursday, wounding two policemen and an 11-year-old girl, officials said.
PAKISTAN Pakistan on Wednesday charged seven men in connection with last year's Mumbai attacks, its first round of indictments in a case being monitored by India and the United States to see whether Islamabad makes good on promises to bring those responsible to justice.
The expiry of an amnesty declared by Gen. Pervez Musharraf is bad news for President Zardari -- and for President Obama's Af-Pak campaign
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — On the eve of the one-year anniversary of the deadly terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, Pakistan Wednesday charged seven men with masterminding and overseeing the assaults.
Pakistan charged seven men in last year's Mumbai attacks on Wednesday, its first indictment in a case being monitored by India and the United States to see if Islamabad makes good on promises to bring those responsible to justice.
Villagers in nearby districts report an influx of militants escaping the Pakistan army offensive in South Waziristan, a campaign critics say should not have been announced ahead of time. Since the Pakistani army launched a long-awaited offensive last month to destroy the Taliban in South Waziristan, many militants have fled to nearby districts and begun to establish new strongholds, a strategy ...
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Pakistan’s shortage of natural gas may widen next year, the Dawn reported, citing an official at the nation’s Petroleum Ministry.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Wednesday he was assured that U.S. influence on Pakistan would help prod Islamabad to crack down on militants who target India.
Pakistan's television networks are heaping political pressure on an increasingly unpopular President Asif Ali Zardari with critical and influential programming that offers a voice to the poor.
India's prime minister said Wednesday that Pakistan must do more to punish the masterminds of last year's terrorist attacks in the Indian financial capital.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (MAHN'-moh-hahn SING) is issuing a stern warning to Pakistan on the eve of the first anniversary of the Mumbai terrorist attacks.
KARACHI -(Dow Jones)- Pakistan's fiscal deficit widened to PKR223.67 billion in the three months to Sept. 30 from PKR137.87 billion a year earlier, official data showed Thursday.
