A truck containing a metric ton of explosives slammed into the front gate of the five star Marriott Hotel in Islamabad today, in an incident some officials are already calling "Pakistan's 9/11". The attack has killed at least 60 people and injured 257 more, though it...
A truck filled with some 1,000 kilograms of explosives rammed into the front gate of the five star Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan today, killing at least 60 people and injuring some 200 others. The 290 room hotel is a popular location for foreign envoys and the...
Updating a previous story, it has now been three weeks since Pakistan's government declared its Ramadan ceasefire. With the Muslim holy month more than half way over the ceasefire still hasn't materialized, and though Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik told the...
Tensions between the United States and Pakistan continued to deteriorate today after Defense Secretary Robert Gates insisted that the United States has the right to launch attacks into Pakistani territory. Pakistani Prime Minister Raza Gilani released a statement...
Updated 9/18 8:10 PM EST If last night's attack in South Waziristan threw into doubt Admiral Michael Mullen's earlier promise that the United States would respect Pakistan's sovereignty over its tribal areas amid reports of further planned US escalation in the region,...
Updated 9/18 10:35 AM EST US ties with Pakistan took another hit today after US drones launched yet another attack in the South Waziristan Agency, killing seven and injuring three others. Pakistani Prime Minister Raza Gilani condemned the strike, which is just the...
Admiral Michael Mullen made a surprise visit to Pakistan yesterday. and according to the US Embassy he "reiterated the US commitment to respect Pakistan's sovereignty". Just hours later, US drones fired four missiles into South Waziristan, killing at least seven and...
Admiral Michael Mullen arrived in Pakistan today on a hastily arranged, unannounced visit. He will hold meetings with Pakistan's Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, Defense Minister, and Chief of Army Staff. The visit comes one day after a reported border incident in...
Early this morning, US helicopters crossed the border into Pakistan's South Waziristan Agency and attempted to land in Angor Adda, in a raid reminiscent of September 3rd's unprecedented attack by US helicopters and ground forces in the same region, which killed 20...
An early morning attack on a South Waziristan village by US helicopters and ground forces on September 3rd may have been unprecedented, but according to a report by National Public Radio, this was no isolated incident but rather "phase one" of a three stage plan to...
