Nov. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Pakistani forces have killed 422Taliban militants and arrested 15 since the start of anoperation to defeat the group in South Waziristan, on the borderwith Afghanistan, the army said.
Forty-two soldiers have died and 123 have been injuredsince ...Read More
ISLAMABAD, Nov. 2 (Xinhua) -- Pakistani president and prime minister have congratulated Afghan President Hamid Karzai on his re-election, the Foreign Ministry of Pakistan said Monday. The Afghan Election Commission on Monday declared Hamid Karzai as the winner of Afghanistan's presidential ...Read More
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama signed a measure Thursday to grant $7.5 billion in aid to Pakistan amid concerns from Islamabad over possible conditions. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs in a statement on the signing of ...Read More
ISLAMABAD, Oct. 10 (Xinhua) -- The political and military leadership of Pakistan has finally decided to carry out military operation in restive South Waziristan tribal areas after a meeting in presidency here Saturday, local TV channels reported. The meeting finalized the ...Read More
(For a Q+A, click on [ID:ISL466759], for more Pakistan and Afghanistan, click on [ID:nAFPAK]) ISLAMABAD, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Pakistan is seeking a national consensus on a U.S. aid bill after the powerful military voiced serious concern about conditions in the ...Read More
ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan's powerful military rejected U.S. attempts to link billions of dollars in foreign aid to increased monitoring of its anti-terror efforts, complicating American attempts to strike al-Qaida and Taliban fighters on the Afghan border. Although the U.S.-backed government of ...Read More
Oct. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Pakistani opposition lawmakers saidconditions the U.S. has set for tripling non-military aid to thecountry undermine its sovereignty and should be changed. The nation’s parliament is today scheduled to discuss thefive-year $7.5 billion U.S. aid package, which has ...Read More
Washington has long been frustrated at Islamabad's reluctance to target the Afghan Taliban's ruling council, the Quetta Shura, which is accused of directing large parts of the insurgency across the border in Afghanistan. State department and intelligence officials delivered the ultimatum ...Read More
NEW YORK, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama announced U.S. Senate passage of a bill tripling non-military aid to Pakistan at a meeting in New York Thursday. The Kerry-Lugar bill to provide $1.5 billion a year to Pakistan for ...Read More
U.S. National Security Adviser James Jones says the United States iscommitted to a long-term partnership with the Pakistani government andpeople. Jones spoke Thursday in Islamabad after meeting withPakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to discuss the new U.S.strategy for the troubled ...Read More
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