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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says he is making 50 million pounds ($83 million) in new funding available to Pakistan to help the country pacify its lawless border with Afghanistan.
Anxious Democrats show little appetite for seriously blocking President Barack Obama’s new war strategy for Afghanistan and appear to be looking for ways instead to bridge their differences with the White House before funding is debated next year.
The White House released these facts on Afghanistan and Pakistan shortly after President Obama's address Tuesday night.
Top U.S. officials said the first of 30,000 new U.S. troops would arrive in Afghanistan in two to three weeks but also made clear on Wednesday that plans to start bringing the soldiers home in 18 months could slip.
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghans and Pakistanis Wednesday greeted President Barack Obama's plan to send 30,000-35,000 additional troops to Afghanistan with limited enthusiasm, skepticism that the U.S. has enough staying power to defeat the Taliban-led insurgency and even suspicion that the rapid surge will be followed by a speedy exit.
Weak partners in Afghanistan and Pakistan raise questions about the strategy.
Move to curb extremist factions could end up fueling them.
Pakistan's Supreme Court said Tuesday it will soon begin examining a recently expired graft amnesty covering the president and key allies.
Chinese leaders have so far resisted U.S. and global calls to let the yuan rise vs. the dollar. At least from their perspective, they see good reasons to keep their currency steady for the time being.
A U.S. judge considering bail for a Pakistani-born Chicago businessman accused of conspiring to launch attacks against a Danish newspaper said on Wednesday she wanted to examine an interview he did with federal agents.
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Pakistan and India will achieve peace only with an accord on the disputed territory of Kashmir, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said as India’s government said it won’t hold talks until the government in Islamabad tackles terrorism.
In his speech on Afghan strategy Tuesday, President Obama said that Pakistan and the United States "share a common enemy." Obama also said success in Afghanistan "was inextricably linked" to Pakistan eradicating safe havens within its borders. Many Pakistanis, however, reject that premise.
President Obama left much unsaid about Pakistan, where he can send no troops, but he offered hints of an expanded counterinsurgency effort.
LONDON (AP) - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says he is making 50 million pounds ($83 million) in new funding available to Pakistan to help the country pacify its lawless border with Afghanistan.
President Obama left much unsaid about Pakistan, where he can send no troops, but he offered hints of the expanded counterinsurgency effort there.
A suicide bomber set off explosives hidden under his jacket outside the entrance of Pakistan's navy headquarters Wednesday, killing one security guard and wounding 11 other people, police said.
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