A US drone fired missiles at what was described by local officials as "the houses of a suspected Taliban militant" near Mir Ali, in North Waziristan Agency, killing six people and injuring an unknown number of others. A local intelligence official said Taliban...
The United States has reportedly submitted a list of four former high-ranking officials in Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Agency to the United Nations to be added to the UN Security Council's list of international terrorists. The move comes after claims...
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...
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...
