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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.
Pakistani security forces have killed 15 militants, including a senior commander, in separate clashes as they seek to rout the Taliban from strongholds in the country's northwest, officials said Thursday.
WASHINGTON — As Pakistan's military fights escalating battles with Islamic extremists and with the country's civilian government, the country's journalists, especially those who are critical of the military, are increasingly caught in the crossfire.
As he announced on Tuesday, President Obama is betting that sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan will rapidly change the balance of power in the field, erode local support for the Taliban and bolster their local opponents, give breathing space to the Kabul government to clean up its act, allow humanitarian aid and development to reach the countryside, and possibly bring some war-weary ...
Police say a suicide attacker has struck Navy headquarters in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad.
Pakistanis fear abrupt withdrawal by U.S. troops
ISLAMABAD (AP) – 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. The attack came hours after President Barack Obama warned that Pakistan and the United States "share a common enemy" in Islamic terrorists as he announced plans to send 30,000 more troops ...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan | Pakistan's Supreme Court said Tuesday it has taken up petitions challenging the amnesty from graft charges that has been enjoyed by the president and many key allies, paving the way for political turmoil even as the U.S. presses the government to focus on fighting militants near the Afghan border. Highlighting the dangers, a suicide bomber killed an anti-Taliban lawmaker ...
The non-U.S. members of NATO intend to commit at least 5,000 more troops to Afghanistan along with the American buildup just announced, the alliance's top civilian leader said Wednesday.
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon welcomed U.S. President Barack Obama's plan to deploy 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan.
WEST POINT, N.Y., Dec. 1 (UPI) -- A strategy in Afghanistan also must work in Pakistan to address a "cancer" that has taken root in the border region, U.S. President Barack Obama said Tuesday.
Senators of both parties expressed skepticism about President Obama’s plans for sending an additional 30,000 troops with a timeline for pulling them out.
President Obama said he would begin to draw U.S. forces out of Afghanistan in July 2011, even after sending some 30,000 more troops by mid-2010.
President Obama has made official what most had expected and many had feared. He announced his decision to increase the troop levels in Afghanistan. The decision was in a way almost inevitable.
BERLIN: Pakistan – being Afghanistan’s immediate neighbour – must be on board in ensuring peace and stability in the war-torn country, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said on Tuesday.
FRANKFURT: Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday invited the Pakistani community in Germany to help strengthen Pakistan’s economy by making investments in the fields of energy, industry, housing and agriculture.
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