Rice in Pakistan after Mumbai attacks
AFP - 7 minutes agoUS Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has arrived in Pakistan on a hastily arranged visit aimed at defusing tensions with India after the Mumbai militant attacks.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has arrived in Pakistan on a hastily arranged visit aimed at defusing tensions with India after the Mumbai militant attacks.
Officials said they had identified leaders of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, stepping up pressure on Pakistan.
(RTTNews) - The visiting chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff demanded that Pakistan must investigate the involvement of Pakistani groups in the Mumbai attacks that killed around 180 and caused additional tension in India-Pakistan relations.
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- On a September evening when many of Pakistan’s 165 million people were breaking their fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, billionaire Mian Mohammad Mansha , the country’s richest man, was deciding whether to buy an Indonesian bank.
As of Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008, at least 556 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Wednesday at 10 a.m. EST.
The top U.S. military officer traveled to India and Pakistan on Tuesday as part of an American diplomatic effort to ease tensions over last week's Mumbai attacks, officials said on Tuesday.
BRUSSELS (AFP)--The North Atlantic Treaty Organization expressed hope Wednesday that Pakistan would keep up the fight against extremists on the Afghan border, amid Indian accusations that Islamabad had a hand in the Mumbai attacks.
Pakistan's army says it has killed 30 militants in air strikes close to the Afghan border.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday that Pakistan has a "special responsibility" to cooperate with the investigation into the deadly Mumbai attacks.
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Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Pakistan’s central bank promised the International Monetary Fund as part of a $7.6 billion bailout that it will increase interest rates further if the nation’s foreign reserves drop too low.
The top U.S diplomat and the country's senior military officer are making a direct appeal to India and Pakistan to share information following the terror attacks in Mumbai.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice sought Wednesday to head off Indian retaliation against Pakistan for the Mumbai terrorist attacks as the United States stepped up pressure on Islamabad to cooperate "transparently, urgently and fully" in tracking down the perpetrators. While Rice was in New Delhi, Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was in Islamabad urging ...
Demands for action are being heard across India amid the anger over last week's rampage in Mumbai by militants accused of coming from Pakistan, but leaders of the two nuclear-armed neighbors are striving to keep tensions in check.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday Pakistan bears a "special responsibility" to help get to the bottom of last week's terror attacks in India.
Troops killed at least six militants while one soldier died Tuesday in Pakistan's restive northwest, the military said, where the country is waging a bloody offensive against Al-Qaeda and the Taliban.