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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.
Pakistan's role under the new U.S. Afghan strategy would depend on Islamabad's own priorities, a Pakistani expert said.
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.
A suicide bomber attacked Pakistan's navy headquarters in the capital Islamabad on Wednesday, killing a naval official and injuring 11 others in the latest blast in the Taliban-troubled nation.
Iranian gas from the South Pars field will be used by customers in Pakistan by as early as 2013, the Iranian consul general in Pakistan said.
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s Supreme Court said Tuesday it will soon begin examining an expired amnesty covering the president and key allies. The decision launches a process that could unseat the U.S.-allied leader just as the Obama administration needs stability in Islamabad to help crack down on the Taliban.
A suicide bomber struck near the naval headquarters in Pakistan's capital Islamabad on Wednesday, police said, killing a navy official in the latest attack in the Taliban-troubled nation.
Islamabad - A suicide bomber blew himself up at a security checkpoint outside the Naval Headquarters in Pakistan's capital Islamabad on Wednesday, killing one soldier, officials said. The attack was the latest in a series of terrorist assaults in tow...
President Obama's plan to expand, then shrink, the U.S. forces fighting the Taliban has critics and supporters at home and in Europe asking for clarification. President Obama's timetable for rapidly expanding and then shrinking U.S. force levels in Afghanistan, a central feature of his new war strategy, raised questions from critics and supporters alike Wednesday, and left top administration ...
Sen. Carl Levin says a partnership with local security forces is vital to success behind a U.S. buildup. Defense Secretary Gates says additional troops will deploy in 2 to 3 weeks. As top administration officials appeared before Congress today to defend the troop buildup in Afghanistan, and with the Pentagon saying the first additional troops will deploy within two to three weeks, a key Senate ...
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama’s administration won’t pressure Germany to send more combat troops to Afghanistan, U.S. special envoy Richard Holbrooke told Handelsblatt newspaper in an interview.
The first of 30,000 new U.S. troops will arrive in Afghanistan in two to three weeks, top U.S. officials said on Wednesday, even as they made clear plans to start bringing the soldiers home in 18 months could slip.
The moment has to happen sometime in a new administration, and the Afghanistan speech was it: the end of the Obama campaign of limitless aspiration and the acknowledgement of a presidency burdened by harsh realities and difficult choices.
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- More than 2,900 bodies were discovered over the past three years in “mass graves” in 55 villages across three districts in the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir , a rights group said.
The 41 other nations contributing to the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan have had to wait to hear U.S. President Barack Obama's plans. But in the end he has come down firmly on the side of the "One More Push" brigade rather than those urging "Let's Cut our Losses and Quit."
Albania says it has agreed to accept more former Guantanamo detainees, but not members of China's ethnic Uighur Muslim minority.
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