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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.
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.
BERLIN: Pakistan and Germany inked a new bilateral investment treaty on Tuesday to “safeguard and promote” business interests and facilitate Islamabad’s efforts to attract foreign investment.
WASHINGTON (Sami Ibrahim): US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Wednesday said Pakistan itself will have to cope with its internal challenges.
A teenage suicide bomber killed an anti-Taliban lawmaker in his house in Pakistan's Swat Valley on Tuesday, showing the militant threat in the region remains months after a military push there was declared a success.
ISLAMABAD (AFP)--A suicide bomber attacked near a naval complex in Pakistan's capital city of Islamabad Wednesday, police said, with four people wounded in the latest blast to hit the Taliban-troubled nation.
A teenage suicide bomber killed an anti-Taliban provincial lawmaker in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday after walking into the official's house along with guests and blowing himself up.
Conservative and liberal lawmakers Wednesday sharply criticized President Obama's plan to start a U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan in July 2011.
The threat posed by Al-Qaeda remains strong, experts say, because as well as planning attacks, Osama bin Laden's organisation is inspiring others.
A suicide bomber killed a provincial lawmaker and his brother Tuesday in Pakistan's northwest Swat valley, where the military claims to have quashed a Taliban uprising.
Islamabad - Pakistani security forces killed 10 Islamist militants in an overnight raid on a rebel redoubt in north-western Swat district, the military said on Thursday. The picturesque valley, once a tourism hub, has regained relative peace after th...
by David E. Sanger and Eric Schmitt WASHINGTON — President Obama focused his speech on Afghanistan. He left much unsaid about Pakistan , where the main terrorists he is targeting are located, but where he can send no troops. read more
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