Lest we think that all the allegations flying across the India-Pakistan border in the past few days are headed in one direction, Pakistan's Daily Times is reporting tonight on evidence which according to unnamed sources was gathered by Pakistani intelligence agencies,...
In a sign that the days of military interference in political affairs may indeed be over, Pakistan's powerful Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) has had its domestic political wing disbanded. The enormously independent ISI has been accused of using the wing to...
During a visit to NATO headquarters, Pakistani Senate Defense Committee Chairman Nisar Memon brought up the issue of the US unilateral drone strikes into Pakistan, warning that they are damaging the reputation of not just the US, but its allies in the Afghan war as...
The upper echelon of Pakistan's military has a long history of close ties with the United States, and today that is no different. But from the Pressler Amendment of the 1980s to the controversial policy of unilateral US drone strikes today, US policy over the past two...
A Saturday phone call between President-elect Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai has yielded, according to President Karzai, a firm commitment to make Afghanistan and the "region" a top priority in the incoming Obama Administration. The "region" appears to...
Yesterday's drone strike in North Waziristan Agency, Pakistan, was perhaps most noteworthy among the dozens of US strikes in Pakistan's border regions in that it killed a dual citizen of Pakistan and Britain, Rashid Rauf, a terror suspect who officials have sought to...
Updated 11/22 7:05 PM EST In a sign of just how seriously the United States took this week's formal protest from the Pakistani government over its recent spate of air strikes, US drones have struck again, this time hitting a house in North Waziristan, killing five and...
After its second formal protest in the past month alone over the ever growing number of US drone strikes being launched in and around Pakistan's tribal areas, Pakistan's military appears to be taking the growing public disquiet over the attacks more seriously, and is...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed an agreement today allowing Spain to use its territory to send supplies to Afghanistan for NATO's military operation there. The Russian Foreign Ministry has also reported that it will allow Germany to use Russian railroads to...
Updated 11/20 9:45 PM EST The Pakistani government has summoned US Ambassador Anne Patterson to lodge a formal protest over yesterday's US missile attack in Bannu District. The strike, which is reported to have killed six people, is just the latest in a long series of...
