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- UN chief concludes Myanmar visit
UN chief arrives in Yangon on official visit to Myanmar UN chief due to visit Myanmar Friday Myanmar, Indonesian entrepreneurs to boost cooperation in trade, tourism UN agencies, Pakistan working on IDPs return UN begins probe into Bhutto killing United
- Soldiers return from Afghanistan (ABC)
6:05 pm Pakistani forces attack militants near crash site July 4, 2009, 10:05 pm Two U.S. soldiers killed in complex Afghan attack July 4, 2009, 11:50 pm A group of Australian soldiers who served in Afghanistan have returned home to Darwin this morning.
- Iraq not on 'bottom shelf': Biden
(AFP)
 AFP - Vice President Joe Biden vowed that the United States will not put Iraq on the "bottom shelf," even as the US military ramps up operations in Afghanistan and crises rumble on in North Korea, Iran and Pakistan.
- South African team to visit by end of July to expand business
By Tanveer Ahmed KARACHI: A high level mission from South Africa will visit Pakistan by the end of current month to interact with the Pakistani exporters, Daily Times learnt on Saturday. The buying mission of South African will be comprised of top
- Taleban claim downing Pakistan Army chopper
PESHAWAR: The Taleban claimed responsibility Saturday for a Pakistani helicopter crash that killed 26 security personnel, as helicopter gunships pounded suspected militant hideouts in the northwest. 'We shot down the helicopter,' a spokesman for Taleban
- Send observers to Afghanistan: Bishop (AAP)
5:51 pm Two US soldiers killed in Afghanistan fighting July 4, 2009, 6:05 pm Seven police killed in Afghan blast July 4, 2009, 8:40 pm Pakistani forces attack militants near crash site July 4, 2009, 10:05 pm Two U.S. soldiers killed in complex Afghan
- US-led NATO should ?do more?
During the last few years, US-led NATO has continuously been stressing upon Pakistan to â??do moreâ?? against the militancy in the tribal regions and Malakand Division. Even, they had opposed the peace deals signed by Pakistan with the
- Details emerge on woman accused of al-Qaida ties
A U.S.-trained scientist accused of being an al-Qaida operative was living freely in Pakistan and Afghanistan for portions of the five years before her arrest last year, a psychologist says, disputing claims that the scientist had spent those years in
- Afghan-Pakistani Hostility Impedes U.S. Troops
ON THE AFGHANISTAN-PAKISTAN BORDER -- Lt. Gabe Lamois's mission sounded simple: Hike down the hill to the Pakistani Frontier Corps' border post, inform the commander there that U.S. and Afghan troops were going to be moving through the area at 3 a.m.,
- Taliban claims to down Pakistani helicopter
hrs PESHAWAR, Pakistan: The Taliban claimed responsibility on Saturday for a Pakistani helicopter crash that killed 26 security personnel, as helicopter gunships pounded suspected militant hideouts in the northwest. The Pakistani military dismissed the
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The separation in 1947 of British India into the Muslim state of Pakistan (with two sections West and East) and largely Hindu India was never satisfactorily resolved. A third war between these countries in 1971 resulted in East Pakistan seceding and becoming the separate nation of Bangladesh. A dispute over the state of Kashmir is ongoing. In response to Indian nuclear weapons testing, Pakistan conducted its own tests in 1998.
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