It seems unlikely that President-elect Barack Obama as a long-time advocate of strikes into Pakistan's tribal areas would consider reversing the Bush Administration's relatively recent policy of unilateral air strikes. Yet the Pakistani government is hoping to...
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...
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...
Pakistani fighter planes and helicopter gunships attacked multiple locations suspected of being militant hideouts in Mohmand Agency today, with military officials saying "25 to 30 militants were killed and many wounded" in the attacks. Other sources however said that...
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...
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 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...
Violence in Pakistan's economic hub of Karachi continued for the second straight day, with 21 more killed, bringing the two day total to at least 30 killed and around 200 wounded in the city-wide violence. Shops closed and police declared emergencies in the local...
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...
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...
