”Pakistan” News

Massive US aid sparks criticism in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD (AFP) – Pakistan's parliament will Wednesday debate a 7.5 billion dollar US aid bill as criticism mounts that money aimed at helping the nation battle Islamist extremism comes with too many strings attached.
10 8 2009 8:54AM (...more)

Pakistan PM vows to push through US aid

ISLAMABAD (AFP) – Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani vowed Wednesday to get all parties in the country on side to accept 7.5 billion dollars
10 8 2009 8:19AM (...more)

Pakistan parliament urges India to accept help offer

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan's parliament called on India on Wednesday to respond positively to Pakistani offers of cooperation in investigating the Mumbai attacks and
12 25 2008 3:05AM (...more)

India gives Pakistan Mumbai gunman's letter

NEW DELHI (AFP) – India on Monday said the pressure put on Pakistan by world leaders over last month's attacks on Mumbai
12 23 2008 8:59AM (...more)

US must burnish image in Pakistan: experts

WASHINGTON (AFP) - As calls rose for the United States to toughen its stance towards Pakistan after the assassination of Benazir Bhutto , experts urged Washington to tread carefully to keep its volatile Asian ally on side and avoid the country imploding.
12 29 2007 6:49AM (...more)

Post-Mumbai Pakistan under siege from militants

WAGAH, Pakistan (AFP) – As he watched elite Pakistani troops go through their paces on the border, Fateh Ali insisted he wants peace with Pakistan's giant neighbour, a year since India 's worst terror outrage. But as
11 26 2009 6:51PM (...more)

Pakistan's army objects publicly to conditions on U.S. aid

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistan's army said Wednesday that it has "serious concern" over conditions attached to a $1.5 billion a year U.S. aid package that Congress approved last month, marking a serious rupture in relations with Washington just before a planned 10 8 2009 8:50PM (...more)

Next U.S. leader must revamp Pakistan policy: study

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The next U.S. president must revamp policy toward Pakistan , mixing deft diplomacy, security support and economic aid to help Islamabad defeat a grave threat from extremists, an experts' report said on Thursday.
10 7 2008 4:23AM (...more)

Brown glosses over Pakistan border areas strains

LONDON (AFP) - Pakistan and Afghanistan must take the lead in clamping down on extremism along their border, although the international commmunity can help, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Tuesday.
09 17 2008 5:34AM (...more)

Pakistan denies ISI behind Indian embassy attack

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan on Friday angrily denied a newspaper report that its intelligence service helped plan a bombing of India's embassy in Kabul that killed at least 41 people, amid mounting allegations the secretive agency is aiding Islamic militants.
08 1 2008 6:44PM (...more)