Pakistani Forces Take Control of Shamsi Airbase

Pakistani military forces have taken control over the Shamsi airbase in the country's southwest after ordering U.S. forces and personnel to leave. In response to the unprovoked U.S. airstrike on a Pakistani military outpost last week, Pakistan ordered the U.S. to...

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Pakistani Taliban in Peace Talks With Islamabad

The Pakistani Taliban announced Saturday that they were in peace negotiations with the Pakistani government and that at least a tentative deal to end hostilities between the two was close. The announcement seemed to directly exploit the disintegrating Pakistani...

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Pakistanis Set Abandoned NATO Supply Trucks Ablaze

Pakistanis fired rockets at more than 20 abandoned tankers in Pakistan set to carry fuel for U.S. and NATO troops in neighboring Afghanistan on Thursday, after Islamabad closed the border in response to U.S. airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani troops last month....

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Karzai Says Kabul Bombing Planned in Pakistan

Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Wednesday that the suicide bombing in Kabul that killed over 50 people was plotted in Pakistan. The accusation is likely to heighten tensions in an already unstable diplomacy with Pakistan, and Karzai vowed to seek answers. “We are...

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