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- Pakistan protest to US ambassador
Ms Patterson will convey Pakistan's concerns to Washington Pakistan has summoned the US ambassador in Islamabad to protest at a US missile attack deep inside Pakistani territory on Wednesday that killed five people. The attack, in Bannu district, killed
- Pakistan warns U.S. over missile strike
Pakistan's foreign ministry summoned U.S. Ambassador Anne Patterson on Thursday to lodge a formal protest against another suspected U.S. missile strike on its territory, an act the country's prime minister called a violation of his nation's sovereignty.
    
- U.S.-Pak Action Squeezing Out Taliban?
(RTTNews) - A U.S. commander in charge of operations in Afghanistan has said that the Taliban members are running out of places to hide as a result a coordinated operation by U.S. and Pakistani forces to put pressure on insurgents on both sides of
- Nato-Pak accord on anti-Taliban campaign
BRUSSELS: Nato and Pakistan agree that winning over the hearts and minds of tribesmen living in Pakistan's lawless border with Afghanistan is crucial to defeating the Taliban, the transatlantic alliance's top military commander said yesterday. 'Only a
- US 'dark side' raised in scientist case
The 'dark side' of US counter-terrorism has been discussed at the court case of a mentally ill Pakistani woman accused of attacking US officers in Afghanistan. The New York federal judge in the case of Aafia Siddiqui highlighted defence allegations that
- NATO: Pakistan fired on rebels on Afghan border
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Relations between Pakistan and the U.S. are under strain because of a wave of American missile strikes on militant strongholds in Pakistan, including one on Wednesday that the government condemned as a 'grave provocation.' However,
- Pakistan Taleban quit peace deal
By Syed Shoaib Hasan BBC News, Islamabad The Taleban have a huge presence in Pakistan's tribal areas A spokesman for a Taleban commander in Pakistan's tribal region of Waziristan has said his group is pulling out of a peace deal with the government.
- 'Dark side' of US war
The 'dark side' of US counter-terrorism took centre stage in the case of a mentally ill Pakistani woman accused of attacking US officers in Afghanistan. A New York federal judge referred to allegations that the accused, Aafia Siddiqui, was abducted and
- Pakistan guarantees supplies to NATO soldiers
NATO commanders meeting in Brussels have been assured by Pakistan's army chief, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, that supply lines will remain open to alliance troops in Afghanistan, even with attacks occurring along the Afghan-Pakistani border. General
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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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