After failing to get the Pakistani government to hand over 20 people in connection with last week's Mumbai attacks, the Indian government has tried a more targeted request of only three major suspects they believe to be involved in the attacks. The three are Tiger...
War With India Would Unite Taliban, Pakistan
The Pakistani military has engaged in a long, bitter conflict with the Tehreek-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP), but has made it clear since last week's Mumbai attacks that in the event of war with India those troops would be shifted from the tribal areas to the eastern...
India Leaves Options Open as Pakistan Refuses to Hand Over Suspects
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has ruled out handing over the 20 people the Indian government has demanded in the wake of last week's Mumbai attacks. Rather, Zardari says that if his government is given proof of the men's involvement in the plot, they would be...
Pakistan Sees Internal Rapprochement as India Tensions Linger
Both India and Pakistan seem to be making some effort to curb what in the first days after last week's Mumbai attacks seemed a growing risk of war. Both sides have continued to assert that their nations' respective militaries are prepared to defend themselves, but...
Advanced US Warning Adds Fuel to Post-Mumbai Criticisms
Criticism of the Indian government's response to last week's Mumbai attacks had already reached a fevered pace, and led to several high ranking resignations. But if the government hoped public criticism was going to fade after an initial shock of a nearly three day...
Kashmir Finds Itself at Center of Indo-Pakistani Row
Though hardly an unfamiliar role for them, Muslim residents of the Indian portion of the disputed Kashmir region find themselves once again at the center of worsening relations between the neighboring nuclear powers. This time, the tension is coming as the Indian...
India Demands ‘Action’ From Pakistan After Mumbai Attacks
India summoned Pakistan's High Commissioner today to demand "strong action" against the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the militant group presently being blamed for last week's Mumbai attacks. Among other things, they demanded the Pakistani government extradite LeT founder...
Mumbai Attack Imperils US Role in Indo-Pakistani Relations
India continues to reel from last week's Mumbai attacks, and with the finger of blame pointed squarely at Pakistan tensions between the two nations are at their worst level since 2002. As the two nations rally support and prepare to position growing amounts of their...
Pakistan Poised to Pull Troops From Afghan Border as India Relations Sour
In comments today Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousef Raza Gilani has said Western allies have been informed the nation will commit the approximately 100,000 troops deployed in the border region near Afghanistan to the Indian border. As tension rise the Prime Minister...
Taj Hotel Remains Battleground in Mumbai
Most of the city of Mumbai is now in a state of relative quiet, though reeling from attacks which started Wednesday evening. The Oberoi hotel has been retaken, some hostages were freed but at least 24 died. An attempt to retake a Jewish center earlier today likewise...


