Pakistan

Isn't US using Afghanistan and India trying to destory Pakistan in the name of Al-Qaida?

The mountainous region of Kunar borders Pakistan and is often a transit point for Taliban between the countries.

It would be a mistake for the United States to walk away from Pakistan and Afghanistan again, Clinton said.

But China's leaders have no desire to turn that limited stake in Pakistan into a heavy security footprint.

And he referred to his ongoing discussions with NATO allies about his new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan.

you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place of worship in this state of Pakistan.

But as a practical matter, his death says more about how much the al Qaeda problem has morphed into an even bigger Pakistan problem.

Gates indicated the United States is ready to help Pakistan address the problem, but did not specify exactly how.

The tragedy may have dominated headlines, but Pakistan is not the only country to have experienced floods.

If Pakistan's world view were not distorted by India, it might be able to see straight on terror.

Pakistan's army chief Gen Ashfaq Kayani has met US defence leaders in Washington as the two countries begin a week-long strategic dialogue.

But what would Pakistan have done with a telephone call saying that there would be large and catastrophic flooding?

Mr Karzai seems to have stopped lambasting Pakistan for tolerating sanctuaries within its borders for Taliban insurgents.

He had not been seen publicly since the end of May when he briefly received his last foreign visitor, Mr Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan.

After years of a secret romance, Fatima's girlfriend suddenly left her, saying there was no future for them in Pakistan.

He was arrested trying to leave Pakistan in 2002 on a forged passport.

Sharif wanted to show that there is no one in the country to compete with him in politics of Pakistan.

Quite a few populous countries in the world lag far behind in the list. India, Pakistan, Turkey and Egypt are all among the bottom 10.

In trying to turn its back on its shared past with India, Pakistan turned its back on itself.

No one knows, even to this day, how much Pakistan's leaders knew of the "nuclear Wal-Mart" Mr Khan operated.

He said the accusations made Pakistan bow its head in shame.

Pakistan's long-standing electricity shortage is suddenly so much worse because power plants have been shut down or damaged as well.

i hate to see her go like this as it just shows how WEAK and INSECURE pakistan is UNLESS someone behind it.

The FT said it had been told by figures close to the White House and the CIA that Pakistan had given the Chinese access to the helicopter.

But he said insurgent leaders have been able to take refuge in Pakistan.

"It would be helpful to us in carrying forward the investigations that are under way in Pakistan, " he said.

It is, sadly and inevitably, the beginning of a new chapter in an epic saga of death, destruction, deception and degeneration in Pakistan.

"There is a degree of unanimity that there must be swift and effective action taken against the Taliban in Pakistan, " he said.

He regards "a jihadist victory" in Pakistan as "neither imminent nor inevitable. . . [but] a real possibility that needs to be assessed" .

Bin Laden was a greater threat to Pakistan than to America in recent years, yet Pakistanis behave as if they regret his death.

'And although other countries' popularity is greater, including China's, the U. S. is first and the most' in aid to Pakistan, he said.

He said Pakistan will not be "intimidated" and declared that "the war on terrorism is as much Pakistan's war as it is America's. "

We've got to get the support of the people of -- of Pakistan. He said that he would launch military strikes into Pakistan.

Indeed, in Pakistan, a woman could have risen to power very recently, had it not been for her assassination.

He said they undermined ties between the two countries and failed to appreciate "Pakistan's sacrifices to fight terrorists" .

"Our main thrust has to be to help Pakistan defeat these extremists, " he said.

of Kunar borders Pakistan and is often a transit point for Taliban between the countries.

It is clear that this part of Pakistan will not be draining, as it has permanently lost elevation!

But in nineteen ninety-two, she visited Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan. What she saw persuaded her to return to her homeland.

He said intelligence officials are already pursing leads that some of the militants had links to groups inside Pakistan.

The meeting of Afghan and Pakistan presidents was the fourth of its kind to be hosted by their Turkish counterpart.

He said part of his strategy would be "taking the fight to al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan. "

As you said, the economy in Pakistan has made great progress recently.

Pakistan army gunship helicopters relentlessly pounded insurgent positions since the clashes broke out in the border region a week ago.

Overall, Barroso said, the EU has decided to boost its humanitarian emergency funding to Pakistan more than tenfold, to about $100 million.

The deadly attack came as the minority Shiite community of Pakistan was getting ready to mark its annual mourning known as Ashoura.

A former head of the Pakistan Cricket Board, Shahryar Khan, said he felt mortified by the players' behaviour.

He just said the United States has long made it clear, frankly said that US-Pakistan relationship is complex.

Campaigning for the general election in Pakistan to be held on February 18th continued to be scarred by violence.

In pledging the Bank's strong commitment to support Pakistan, Wolfowitz said the reasons were obvious.

Most of the migrants trying to reach Australia this year are escaping fighting in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

He noted China-Pakistan relations have maintained a momentum of sound development since the new government came into office in Pakistan.

and Pakistan is thought ready to supply a bomb in exchange for earlier Saudi backing of its own programme.

to New York's Kennedy Airport and bought a ticket to Dubai. He was on his way to Pakistan.

He spoke in a very eloquent classical Arabic that he said had learned in madrasas in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

So long as it was fighting Pakistan, even liberal Indian opinion seemed ready to tolerate a heavy hand in Kashmir.

Floods in Pakistan have displaced around 2 million people by now and there seems to be no let up in nature's display of brute force.

as you may be knowing that due to severe floods in Pakistan, the business activities have been slowed down.

Secondly, Pakistan has not come up with a viable economic program, which they would be ready to support, " said Zubair. "

Bin Laden, though the most wanted man in the world, had been living in the heart of Pakistan, in security as well as comfort.

At the least, he said, this approach might allow America to coordinate its efforts with countries that Pakistan is more eager to listen to.

To string together online scripts , melted melted Pakistan Pakistan won hundreds of millions of viewers on the front, a bit irresponsible.

Thirdly, for China, Pakistan is at least as much part of the solution in Xinjiang as it is part of the problem.

Pakistan has described the US raid on Sunday in Abbottabad as an "unauthorised unilateral action" and said it should not be taken as a rule.

He said he would ask Congress to increase aid to Pakistan but in return he expected Pakistan to tackle the safe havens.

Pakistan's government said the operation had been completed in December, but fighting in the area has continued.

She said the aid is required to secure Pakistan's nuclear weapons.

Pakistan's UN envoy in Geneva said he believed the international community still needed to understand how serious the situation is.

For all that, China's dealings with Pakistan have always been conducted with one eye on India.

Indeed, when the interior minister, Rehman Malik, this week declared Pakistan to be "in a state of war" , he seemed to confirm as much.

Pakistan denies the allegation, and Mr. Bashir said the country does not know if Mullah Omar and other Taliban leaders are in Pakistan.

'The act they have done is against the sovereignty of Pakistan, ' he said in an interview.

Administration officials say they have made progress with Pakistan since, but it is hard to see much evidence of that so far.

First, the mullahs' provincial administration was as corrupt as any other in Pakistan, and more incompetent than most.

Woflowitz made it a priority to hear directly from among Pakistan's 150 million people about their problems and priorities.

The Pakistan government has decided to defer by a year a planned increase in a tax on compressed natural gas.

The official said the Foreign Ministry statement was 'something Pakistan has to say becasue of the domestic debate. '

Turkey and Thailand now seem to have moved beyond that stage. Pakistan, a poorer nation, is still vulnerable.

He might have done more, too, to justify his optimism that war between Pakistan and India is now less likely "than ever" .

Pakistan is not able to take control of its own territory (FAT), China has no problem to grab some more from Pak; a perfect marriage.

A symbolic offer of $25m to Pakistan a year ago, via the United Nations, to assist in flood relief, was unlikely to have melted many hearts.

In an interview with US TV network CBS, President Asif Zardari said the Taleban had established a presence across "huge parts" of Pakistan.

I do not think anyone is ready to give just pure cash to Pakistan to do whatever it likes with it.

Fernandes also attacked Pakistan for trying to disrupt the election to be held on the 16th of this month.

"Why is Pakistan so important an ally to America [that] America has never called it a terrorist state? , " asked one student.

In Afghanistan and Pakistan, the president said, the United States is determined to defeat al-Qaida and extremist forces.

To say that Partition left Pakistan in an almost untenable position is not to say that it could have been avoided.

He also said the main thrust of U. S. and allied strategy is to dismantle and defeat al-Qaida in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Bamiyan was an important monastic complex at a time when Buddhism began to spread from India and Pakistan into Central Asia and China.

The Commonwealth Ministers Action Group held a meeting in London Monday and decided to resume Pakistan's Commonwealth membership.

"Why is Pakistan so important an ally to America [that] America has never called it a terrorist state? , " asked one student.

In Afghanistan and Pakistan, the president said, the United States is determined to defeat al-Qaida and extremist forces.

To say that Partition left Pakistan in an almost untenable position is not to say that it could have been avoided.

He also said the main thrust of U. S. and allied strategy is to dismantle and defeat al-Qaida in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Bamiyan was an important monastic complex at a time when Buddhism began to spread from India and Pakistan into Central Asia and China.

The Commonwealth Ministers Action Group held a meeting in London Monday and decided to resume Pakistan's Commonwealth membership.

He said it was wrong to think, however, that Pakistan was punishing and detaining the people that led the United States to bin Laden.

It is often said that Pakistan's decision to build the bomb was motivated by India's explosion of its own device in 1974.

Clinton said the U. S. , Afghanistan and Pakistan face a "common enemy" with extremists.

Pakistan's ambassador to the United States said the reports were unsubstantiated and "do not reflect the current on-ground realities. "

Pakistan's ambassador to the United States said the reports were unsubstantiated and "do not reflect the current on-ground realities. "

If it were up to us, the border between India and Pakistan would be eliminated.

An ambulance paramedic stands next to the body of a Greek national in a morgue at a Karachi hospital in Pakistan.

He added that there was a renewed focus on stemming the flow of fighters across the border from Pakistan.

The two camps differ over how much approval and assistance Pakistan should give to stepped-up U. S. anti-terrorist operations.

The Indian Prime Minister is said to be in favor of trying to build bridges with Pakistan.

The danger of Pakistan failing as a state is often overstated.

But where the U. S. 's interests were deemed to be acting against Pakistan's own, it would be a very different matter.

Pakistan seems to have helped the United States track down bin Laden's lair, as Obama acknowledged.

Speaking at the National Defense University, Obama said the country is still at war with terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Speaking at the National Defense University, Obama said the country is still at war with terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

BARACK OBAMA: "Today, at my direction, the United States launched a targeted operation against that compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. "

Pakistan has proven to be a worthy proxy for China as it continues its own march towards consolidating its national strength.

With such a capability our nuclear capability would be a real deterrent to china and Pakistan.

Pakistan's president says his country, is ushering in a new era of democracy following years of his autocratic rule.

Pakistan will not be with any terrorist organization linked, we are ready to work with India jointly investigating the terrorist attacks.

He released a statement suggesting that both militants battling the Pakistani troops and coalition forces are now trying to weaken Pakistan.

He said the United States wants to help Pakistan and other countries get control of such areas.

She fled Spain for Morocco in 2001; a year later police intercepted an email in which she said she was headed for Pakistan's tribal belt.

It remains unclear how much, if at all, Pakistan's rulers co-operated in the successful hunt for Mr bin Laden.

In fact Pakistan's new president, Asif Zardari, has been going out of his way-and courting controversy at home-to placate India.

As domestically rewarding as it may be, brinkmanship over Davis imperils the long-term fortunes of Pakistan's government.

If nothing else, bin Laden's death should offer a good reminder of how much India and Pakistan still need each other.

President Karzai also said he hopes to reduce years of tension with Pakistan.

On average, only one out of every seven U. S. drone attacks in Pakistan kills a militant leader.

He said if Pakistan did not cooperate, he would refer the matter to the United Nations.

White House spokesman, Jay Carney, said Pakistan must break any links it had with the militants, the Haqqani network.

Pakistan Navy spokesman said the dead included a civilian naval officer and a female doctor.

The Americans did not notify Pakistan about their operation for fear that it would be compromised.

As a result, Islamic radicalism now seems to be becoming an increasingly serious threat to India just as it is in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

In addition to the aid, the prime minister said he expects much more cooperation between Britain and Pakistan over a wide range of issues.

Drones have always been a delicate and difficult issue for the U. S. and Pakistan.

The Kremlin has approved the re-export of the engine to Pakistan, as it has no arms business there.

Secretary Clinton says defeating the Taliban and al-Qaida is not only in Pakistan's vital interest, but that of the United States as well.

For a woman who claimed to be driven by a burning desire to bring democracy to Pakistan, it was a curious legacy.

It was also decided to ask the Chinese working in Pakistan to follow the Standing Operation Procedures (SOPs) in their day to day movement.

Pakistan as you know is a hot market in respect of security systems.

It seems to me that you walk around the streets of Pakistan with your eyes closed.

Pakistan denies any link between the attack and government agencies, but says "non-state actors" might have been involved.

The head of the Pakistan Taliban claimed responsibility and said it was in retaliation for an American drone attack.

Finally, Pakistan must be made to understand the cost of nuclear warfare.

Thailand is the last leg of his Asian tour, prior to which he visited Pakistan, India and Malaysia.

New Delhi has interpreted this as a challenge to its sovereignty over Kashmir, the subject of a dispute with neighbour Pakistan.

Pakistan's air force plans to purchase at least 250 of the Thunder fighters over the next four to five years.

British Prime Minister Major rushed back from Pakistan yesterday for a crucial parliamentary vote after a week-long South Asian tour.

India and Pakistan have continued to push on all-round dialogue and achieved some progress since the beginning of 2007.

There is widespread concern about how much control Pakistan's new civilian government has over the country's powerful security agencies.

And Pakistan is often the first foreign recipient of Chinese military hardware.

The mansion in Abbottabad, Pakistan where Osama bin Laden was found and killed is at least six times the size of the typical house near it.

However, he confirms there has recently been a reduction of reported incursions from Pakistan along the line of control.

His administration did not warn Pakistan that it was about to launch an attack deep inside its territory, as if there was no trust there.

Pakistan and India came into being at the cost of a million lives and the largest migration in history.

It should be noted that it's not uncommon to see this sort of construction in Pakistan's tribal areas.

The incident aroused strong reactions Pakistan, the Pakistani government were to strongly protest against the United States and NATO.

Some analysts said the decisive factor in the defeat of the party that backs Musharraf, the Pakistan Muslim League (PML), was the president.

The Pakistan Army will present Sunday's clash as proof of its valor in an attempt to assuage Pakistanis outraged by its incompetence.

Pakistan's President, General Pervez Musharraf, once referred to his uniform as a "second skin. "

He said the U. S. will carry out a strategic and political assessment of the situation in northwest Pakistan once the waters recede.

According to a Chinese manager in Pakistan, if they go on a posting for more than a year, they get single rooms.

If you were sitting in Oxford, England, trying to get to YouTube, your packets were going to Pakistan and they weren't coming back.

While Pakistan is a close US ally in the war on terror, the relationship with China has never been compromised.

The border may soon be reopened, when a joint inquiry by NATO and Pakistan into the helicopter attack agrees on an acceptable form of words.

The United States wants nuclear-armed Pakistan to be a more reliable partner in its war on militancy.

It was also unclear whether Mr. Shahzad was affiliated with the Pakistan Taliban or any other Pakistan-based jihadi group.

After growing up in England, Pakistan, the Bahamas, and the U. S. , Wheeler cofounded the bestselling Lonely Planet Travel Series in 1973.

Pakistan said the militants have suffered heavy losses and have been pushed over the border into Afghanistan.

The United States condemned the attack and said it would continue supporting Pakistan's efforts to combat extremism and bolster democracy.

Pakistan is using proxies, and that's a reference to these groups that have their roots back in the Afghan war against the Soviet Union.

Colder relations with the Americans must surely be expected, while Pakistan fumbles for some sort of explanation.

Zardari said Pakistan is ready to maintain high-level exchanges and enhance political dialogue with China.

The uprising, asserts Delhi, is all due to "cross-border terrorism" from Pakistan.

Such a pact would draw China into any conflict involving their ally and likely anger the U. S. and India, Pakistan's regional rival.

Before the election, Senator Biden said the United States should cut military aid to Pakistan if the polls were rigged.

obviously, china is compelled to do this test, for his right would not be robbed by the robber. long live sino-pakistan friendship!

Police in northern Pakistan say they have arrested an American who said he was on a solo mission to kill al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.

Among those arrested in Pakistan was the man said by a surviving Mumbai terrorist, now in Indian custody, to be the mastermind of the plot.

Pakistan and India have fought three wars involving thousands of troops on both sides of Kashmir's border, known as the Line of Control.

The greatest of these was to give up his nuclear programme and help to blow the lid on the nuclear black market centred on Pakistan.

At least three suspected militants have been killed in a US drone attack in north-western Pakistan, officials say.

Some analysts believe that the U. S. tend to distance Iran, Pakistan and China are close to the troops in Afghanistan to extend the time.

He voiced support for an increase in aid to Pakistan, but he made clear he is looking for something in return.

He said Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency supported the truck bombing by Haqqani operatives on a NATO base on September tenth.

Admiral Mike Mullen said the Haqqani Network is a "veritable arm" of the ISI, Pakistan's military intelligence agency.

Pakistan's suffering this season is harder to quantify and is developing more slowly, but is no less horrible for that.

"Pakistan would never seek confrontation; it would always seek relations on the basis of mutual respect, " he said.

Gilani noted that the U. S. signed a nuclear deal with India, even though Pakistan was in greater need of a civilian nuclear deal.

There's also no doubt that the Pakistan flooding will join the ranks of the worst natural disasters in recorded history.

Pakistan army spokesman Major General Athar Abbas said Wednesday's operation was an unprecedented violation of those guidelines.

At least 16 people have been killed in Pakistan by a bomb explosion in a gambling den in the port city of Karachi. Dozens were injured.

Iranian state TV is reporting at least 40 people have been killed by a major earthquake near the Iran-Pakistan border.

Meanwhile Pakistan seems to be sending fewer militants into Kashmir these days.

Pakistan exists in a region whose history has overlapped that of India, Afghanistan and Persia (Iran).

It was the third cross-border incident in a week, the Pakistan military said.

"Transportation of gas from Pakistan can prove to be cost-effective [for India], " he said.

Almost none of Pakistan's articulate and educated liberal voices have dared speak out in his defence.

Another more serious risk for China is that Pakistan may break up into pieces - some of the pieces ready to support XINJIANG very radically.

Bin Laden has never been found and is believed to still be hiding in the mountainous border areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

"Pakistan and Afghanistan are conjoined twins. Our suffering is shared. Our joys are always shared, " he said.

In Pakistan, thousands of mourners gathered in Karachi Saturday to attend a funeral for some of those killed in two bomb attacks Friday.

In 1993, Mortenson got lost and hurt on a hiking trip and was saved by the kind people of the remote village of Korphe in Pakistan.

Today, at my direction, the United States launched a targeted operation against that compound in Abad Abad, Pakistan.

She is an illiterate woman from the tribal areas of Pakistan who almost died in childbirth a year after marrying at the age of 12.

A discussion with newspaper editors was wide-ranging, covering topics from water and growth to the Bank's role in Pakistan.

The official also said the DNA evidence unquestionably shows that the person shot and killed in the Pakistan compound was bin Laden.

Yet even then it was hard to persuade a nervous General Musharraf to put Pakistan's nuclear hero out of business.

Pakistan will hand over the remains of the stealth helicopter blown up in the Abbottabad raid.

Pakistan and China will remain friends forever. Our enemies are trying to break this relation, but they will be defeated, InshaAllah.

But the rescue and recovery efforts could become more complicated as monsoon rains continued to fall across much of Pakistan Monday.

Pakistan's repeated wars with India have given it a very negative light in the world.

And he said Pakistan is not a completely functional democracy.

From the complex web of factors that have fostered intolerance and violence in Pakistan, it is possible to disentangle four main strands.

Mr Hussain was meeting in London with potential investors in Pakistan's oil and gas sector, ahead of new round of oil block auctions.

That's the customary escape in rural Pakistan for a raped woman, as the only way to cleanse the disgrace to her entire family.

If it's not China, it will be India, Banglades, Pakistan, Malaysia, Mexico, Vietnam or any other country.

Yes i can imagine because its Americans who are not the only one uses Pakistan, but China too. Thank you for sharing your concern with us.

Pakistan have some immensely talented players, but they play in a vacuum; they are having to make it up for themselves as they go along.

Obama said the continued military effort in Iraq has distracted from major security challenges in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Pakistan was one of the lowest scorers for personal safety, with Karachi and Islamabad ranked 213th and 203rd respectively.

This collection is all about how Pakistan works: a poignant picture of Punjabi life from top to bottom.

Pakistan, he said, is a strategically important country that now understands the threat from extremists within its borders.

The White House has said it anticipates continued cooperation between the United States and Pakistan.

"We have made these concerns abundantly clear" to Pakistan's civilian and military leadership, she said.

From the American point of view, that would mean turning Pakistan's years of double-dealing to positive effect.

The White House says President Barack Obama still considers Pakistan a strong ally in the fight against extremist forces.

The United States and Pakistan were the only two countries where more than one in five felt capitalism worked well as it stands.

S. policies in Afghanistan and Pakistan that have failed to counter the Taliban or shore-up the two countries' U. S. -allied governments.

During his seven years in London, Moussaoui's family and French investigators say he traveled to Pakistan, Afghanistan and Chechnya.

Police in northwestern Pakistan say at least 8 people have been killed by a bomb blast in a market in Dera Ismail Khan.

With a puppet prime minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani, from his Pakistan People's Party, Mr Zardari is poised to lord it over Pakistan.

So far, Pakistan has not charged bin Laden's three widows of any crime.

But Mr. Zardari wants the ex-president to leave Pakistan, rather than loom over the new government.

Now they are trying to open talks with the local commanders in Pakistan.

Q: The Chinese Government has decided to send four helicopters to help Pakistan with its flood relief work.

Foods on the Indus River continued to surge downstream into southern Pakistan more than three weeks after the initial floods started.

Sherry Rehman of the Pakistan People's Party has no qualms about censoring "those who cause wilful offence" .

Zazi, from Denver, Colorado, is understood to have been given instructions by a senior member of al Qaeda in Pakistan over the internet.

Karim said the relief materials for Pakistan include medicine, tea, oral saline, tents, blankets and bottled water.

The received opinion in Delhi, at the time, was that the problem was still best dealt with by Pakistan.

Although the company has not officially acknowledged it, the Falco has already secured an order from Pakistan, and deliveries are underway.

Pakistan is the country where all the trickiest issues in American foreign policy seem to come together.

At moments Pakistan sounds ready to co-operate with America against extremists.

His views might be dismissed as those of an Indian enemy were they not so closely echoed by Pakistan's American friends.

China's reluctance to act is largely due to its close relationship with Pakistan, the prism through which Beijing views much of the region.

A family member there has sought a meeting with Pakistan's ambassador to Yemen to ask about her fate and whether she is to return to Yemen.

Ambassador Holbrooke appeared to be sympathetic with Pakistan's concerns.

"ETIM has become a generic term for any Uighur activist group that may or not have links with the Pakistan group, " he said.

In the study of a major city in ancient Pakistan, one of every 10 finds is related to playing games. Cynthia Graber reports.

This was a brazen attempt to create Muslim-Christian tensions, and similar to plays in Iraq and Pakistan.

Forever Friends - Pakistan is a proxy for China against India and its eyes and ears in the region.

In her absence, Pakistan has no national leader.