Just hours after the Pakistani government threatened opposition leader and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif with "life imprisonment and a fine" for sedition, Sharif spoke at a rally in Jhelum. At the rally, he declared that "we cannot leave Pakistan at the mercy of...
Just days after President Obama spoke in an interview of reaching out to moderate Taliban in an effort to reconcile at least some aspects of the growing insurgency with the faltering Afghan government, reports are emerging that his administration is planning to...
Late last month the Pakistani Supreme Court declared opposition leader and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his brother Shahbaz (chief minister of the Punjab Province) ineligible to hold public offices for opposing the 1999 military coup of Pervez Musharraf,...
The Pakistani military showed off its previously declaring victory in the tiny Bajaur Agency today, showing off a captured (and largely destroyed) marketplace and declaring "the resistance has been broken down," providing a rare upnote to the military's ongoing, and...
Details of a 17-point plan for Swat Valley agreed to earlier this week between Pakistani forces and Sufi Muhammad, head of the Tehreek-e Nafaz-e Shariat-e Mohammad (TNSM) weren't made immediately available at the time of its signing, but it seems now that it is just...
Terrorist attacks in troubled Pakistan are nothing new, but today's attack in Lahore, which killed six police and two civilian bystanders and injured several others seems to have captured the attention of not just the nation, but much of the world as well. The 12...
Updated 3/1/09 6:45 PM EST Pakistani intelligence officials confirmed today that the missile attacks on a house in Sararogha, South Waziristan Agency came from a US drone. Joint Chiefs chairman Admiral Michael Mullen declined to comment on the specifics of the...
The new Director of the CIA Leon Panetta declared yesterday that the controversial drone attacks against sites in Pakistan would continue, in spite of the growing criticism. Panetta declared that the attacks, which began under the Bush Administration, "have been...
Protests were sparked across Pakistan today when the Supreme Court decided that Nawaz Sharif, former prime minister and opposition leader, as well as his younger brother Shahbaz were ineligible to hold public offices. The ruling brought down the Punjabi Provincial...
Moving forward after an announcement earlier this week that they would agree to a permanent ceasefire, the Swat Valley chapter of the Tehreek-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has reportedly dismantled a number of its checkpoints in the area, and witnesses say they have seen...
