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...
Last week, the Pakistani government warned tribesmen in the restive Bajaur Agency to take action against the Tehreek-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP), threatening military action against them if they refused. This week, the new policy seems to have spread to the Mohmand...
Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff General Parvez Kayani met with top NATO officials today, reaffirming his support for their Afghanistan mission and promising to do everything within his power to ensure that the NATO supply line through Pakistan is kept open. Shipment of...
A US drone strike hit Bannu District in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province today, killing six suspected militants. Bannu District borders both North and South Waziristan, the usual site of US missile attacks, but the strike was farther from the Afghan border than...
