”Pakistan” News

No change in Pakistan gas deal if India joins -Iran

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Details of a pipeline deal for Pakistan to buy gas from Iran will remain as agreed by the two countries last week, even if India decides to join the project, an Iranian oil ministry official was quoted as saying.
10 2 2007 12:45PM (...more)

Could saber-rattling lead to war between India and Pakistan?

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan is moving some troops away from its border with Afghanistan , Pakistani officials said on Friday, sparking renewed fears that last month's terrorist
02 18 2009 10:24PM (...more)

Could saber-rattling lead to war between India and Pakistan?

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan is moving some troops away from its border with Afghanistan , Pakistani officials said on Friday, sparking renewed fears that last month's terrorist
12 27 2008 12:29PM (...more)

Mumbai: The Perils of Blaming Pakistan

Indian accusations of a Pakistani hand in last week's Mumbai massacre couldn't have come at a worse time for the government in Islamabad: As a Taliban insurgency continues to simmer in the tribal areas along the Afghan border, clashes
12 6 2008 12:03PM (...more)

Pakistanis worry about US nuclear intentions

ISLAMABAD – In Washington, the ultimate Pakistani nightmare is that the country's nuclear arsenal could fall into the hands of Taliban militants or rogue soldiers. In Islamabad, though, talk of nuclear weapons taps
11 16 2009 3:07PM (...more)

Carnage in Pakistan

The Nation -- It's possible, of course, that when Alaska Governor Sarah Palin meets Hamid Karzai , the president of of Afghanistan , and Asif Ali Zardari , the president of Pakistan this week, she will fix everything that's wrong in those two countries.
09 23 2008 10:52AM (...more)

Bomb a warning to end Pakistan-US cooperation

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - The brazen truck-bombing of the Marriott hotel in Islamabad on Saturday is a warning from Islamic militants to Pakistan's new civilian leadership that it should end already-strained cooperation with the United States to pursue al-Qaida and the Taliban , analysts said.
09 22 2008 7:36PM (...more)

Pakistan's Musharraf being nudged to quit before impeachment

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Americans and British diplomats are trying to encourage a quick exit from office for Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf , a staunch Western anti-terrorism ally, before he suffers the disgrace of impeachment, Pakistani officials said Wednesday.
08 16 2008 5:39PM (...more)

Pakistan's prime minister broaches Taliban peace

Pakistan 's strategy in the war on terrorism took a dramatic turn on Saturday, when the country's prime minister, Yousaf Raza Gillani, announced that his government would seek peace with the Taliban .
04 8 2008 10:27AM (...more)

Clinton: Hard to believe Pakistan can't find Al Qaeda

• A daily summary of global reports on security issues. In an unusually blunt statement during her trip to Pakistan , US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton
11 4 2009 3:25PM (...more)