Pakistan's UN speech features portrait of Bhutto

Pakistan is beginning to claw its way out of the clutches of terrorists and religious extremists after decades of violence, President Asif Ali Zardari said Friday, with a portrait of his assassinated wife, Benazir Bhutto, by his side.

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After 1 year, Pakistani president's ratings slide

President Asif Ali Zardari's plunging popularity has led to questions over whether he can finish his term, raising the possibility that political turmoil could undercut Pakistan's recent gains in the fight against al-Qaida and the Taliban.

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Obama to meet with Afghan, Pakistan leaders

The White House says President Barack Obama will meet Wednesday with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari to discuss their troubled region.

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Official: Pakistan-US trust key to counter terror

Pakistani and U.S. officials called Tuesday for more trust between their countries to counter al-Qaida and the Taliban, but Pakistan's foreign minister reiterated his government's opposition to American airstrikes on its soil.

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Pakistan peace effort rattled by cleric's exit

The hard-line Muslim cleric who has mediated peace talks between Pakistan and the Taliban in the Swat Valley packed up and left the northwestern district Thursday, angrily denouncing the president for failing to sign off on imposing Islamic law in the area.

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Pakistan court restores opposition gov't in Punjab

Pakistan's Supreme Court on Tuesday restored the provincial government of a main opposition leader in the country's most powerful province, easing political turmoil.

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Pakistan seeks deal to quell political crisis

Pakistan's government considered cutting a deal with the opposition Friday to ease a political crisis undermining its shaky one-year rule, but stepped up a nationwide crackdown on demonstrators converging on the capital for a major rally.

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Truck halt on Pakistan pass could dent US supply

Pakistan temporarily suspended oil tankers and trucks with sealed containers from using a key passage into Afghanistan, an official said Sunday, a move that will likely impact supplies heading to U.S. and NATO troops.

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Pakistan's Zardari sworn in as new president

Repeatedly paying homage to his assassinated wife, new President Asif Ali Zardari declared Tuesday that he has a comprehensive plan to fight terrorism and said Pakistan's people are behind him.

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Pakistan's ruling coalition on verge of collapse

Pakistan's ruling coalition teetered on the brink of collapse as the two main partners squabbled over a successor to ousted President Pervez Musharraf.

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When waging war "by way of deception," the motto of Israel's Mossad, well-timed crises play a critical agenda-setting role by displacing facts with what a target population can be deceived to believe.

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The evening of November 9th was a tumultuous affair: full of excitement, revelations, astounding robust thrills, political reverberations, media resonance and the restrained admittance of a Messiah-in-the-making by a resurgence of political association between once friends and re …

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KARACHI: The chief of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Altaf Hussain has decided to oppose NRO in the Parliament and advice President Asif Ali Zardari to quit as president.

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Altaf Hussain advises President Zardari to resign

The supreme leader of MQM, Mr Altaf Hussain, has advised President of Pakistan Mr. Asif Ali Zardari, to resign from his post.

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United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in Pakistan to meet with government officials, civic leaders, businesspeople, and even leaders of the political opposition.

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TEHRAN -- Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar has said that Pakistani officials have promised to cooperate with Iran and to take the measures necessary to capture the members of the Rigi terrorist group and extradite them to Iran.

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - The new aid package for Pakistan passed by Congress last month - a promise of $7.5 billion for civilian needs over the next five years - has unwittingly thrust the United States into the center of the perennially uneasy relationship between Pakistan's powerf …

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Steps by the United States to vastly expand its aid to Pakistan, as well as the footprint of its embassy and private security contractors here, are aggravating an already volatile anti-American mood as Washington pushes for greater action by the government against the Taliban.

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In 2007 Condi Rice, Richard Boucher and British diplomat Mark Lyall Grant created a law called NRO to whitewash the illegal wealth of Benazir Bhutto, Asif Zardari and many other Pakistanis to help them come to power.

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Musharraf's safety deal mightier than parliamentary zeal Army won't be comfortable with its ex-chief's humiliation; local and foreign underwriters including US, UK, Saudi Arabia guaranteed safe exit...

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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Saturday that India was "willing to walk more than half the distance" to normalise relations if Pakistan reaffirmed that it would bring the perpetrators of the Mumbai massacre to justice and would not allow its territory to be used for te …

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The West, most notably the United States, has been all too willing to dance with dictators in pursuit of perceived short-term goals.

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In an astonishingly candid admission - a first by any Pakistani head of state - president Asif Ali Zardari has admitted militants and terrorists were wilfully created by past Pakistani governments and nurtured as a policy to achieve tactical objectives.

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To talk or not to talk; that is the problem, facing India.

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For much of the last decade Nato forces in Afghanistan and Pakistani troops in the north-west of their country have been fighting Taliban and al-Qaeda militants...

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Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh met President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan at Yekaterinburg in Russia on June 16, 2009.

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called Wednesday for greater counterterrorism cooperation among the United States, India and Pakistan and said she would visit India next month as the Obama administration moves to strengthen ties with New Delhi...

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The opening lines of Mohsin Hamid's tense and ambiguous novel, spoken by a bearded Pakistani to a barrel-chested American, could just as well be Islamabad addressing Washington.

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Al Jazeera on Wednesday broadcast an audio message from Osama bin Laden, in which he focused on the state of affairs in Pakistan.

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India's recent elections have ushered in a historic opportunity to address the issue of Kashmir. Over 417 million voters turned out to give the world's most populous democracy its most stable government ever.

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This week's Afghan-themed summit in Tehran served as a strong indication of the growing prominence held by Iran's eastern neighbors.

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Today electronic media which also include the use of internet have really changed the world into a global village. By displaying the printed articles of newspapers and journals on multiple websites, the cyber age has added revolutionary changes to the norms of Journalism.

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There is little good news these days, but perhaps we should not despair. Iran and Pakistan have signed a deal to construct a gas pipeline that had been on the cards since 1995, notwithstanding the numerous turns and twists in negotiations.

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The operations of the Pakistani security forces against the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and its affiliate the Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM) have been marked by a lack of intelligence, physical security in the non-tribal areas, an over-all strategy, direction a …

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Reporting from Washington -- The U.S. military has launched a program of armed Predator drone missions against militants in Pakistan that for the first time gives Pakistani officers significant control over routes, targets and decisions to fire weapons, U.S. officials said.

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