“Dammit, make a decision.” A Times editorial: President Obama is fulfilling his promise to wind down the Iraq war. When he took office, there were about 142,000 American troops on the ground; now there are 46,000. All are supposed to be gone by Dec. 31 under a 2008 agreement between…
U.S. government documents shed some additional light on repeated Taliban offers to hand over Osama bin Laden.…
In an exclusive interview with Foreign Policy Journal, retired Lt. Gen. Hamid Gul responds to charges that he supports terrorism, discusses 9/11 and ulterior motives for the war on Afghanistan, claims that the U.S., Israel, and India are behind efforts to destabilize Pakistan, and charges the U.S. and its allies…
Shahid R. Siddiqi began his career in the Pakistan Air Force, and later joined the private sector where he was until recently in a senior management position. At the same time, he worked as a broadcaster with Radio Pakistan and was the Islamabad bureau chief of the English weekly magazine,…
The U.S. has announced $110 million in aid to Pakistan as the number of refugees fleeing the fighting in the country’s Swat district is quickly approaching 1.5 million. Pakistan’s military began an offensive campaign against militants in Swat and Buner districts two weeks ago, just days before President Asif Ali…
Pakistani military officials have said that the number of civilians who have fled fighting in Pakistan has reached 1.3 million. A figure of more than half a million who have been registered has been confirmed by the U.N. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced…
A major offensive against militants in the Swat and Buner districts of Pakistan is underway, as thousands of civilians flee the area, headed for refugee camps that have been set up to help mitigate the crisis. The offensive marks the complete collapse of a peace agreement between the government and…
Indian police last week arrested Hassan Ali Khan, who was wanted for investigations into money laundering and other illicit activities, and who is also said to have ties to Dawood Ibrahim, the underworld kingpin who evidence indicates was the mastermind behind the terrorist attacks in Mumbai last month. Ibrahim is…
The role in the terrorist attacks in Mumbai last month of an underworld kingpin that heads an organization known as D-Company, has known ties to Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), and who is alleged to have ties with the CIA is apparently being whitewashed, suggesting that his capture and handover to…
Correction: This report incorrectly states that Omar Saeed Sheikh was imprisoned for his involvement in a plane hijacking. He was imprisoned for his involvement in the kidnapping of American and British nationals and released in exchange for the hostages of a plane hijacking. Details have emerged regarding who was responsible…
Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, the head of the Pakistani Army, appointed Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shujaa Pasha as head of Inter-Services Intelligence, Pakistan’s powerful spy agency, the New York Times reports. The New ISI chief will be dealing directly with Washington in how Pakistan will be involved in the U.S. “war…
Asif Ali Zardari, who won the presidential election over the weekend, was sworn in today. In the election on Saturday, members the parliament and provincial assemblies voted on who would replace Perez Musharraf, who resigned last month, as president of Pakistan. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice responded positively to…
Washington sends a clear message to Pakistan with attack that it had better accept the U.S.'s role in the world, in which it may do as it pleases with impunity.…
The New York Times reported earlier this week that Pascal Couchepin, the president of Switzerland, publicly confirmed that his government had deliberately destroyed computer files and other documentation of dealings of the Tinners, a family of Swiss engineers with suspected ties to Abdul Qadeer Khan, the Pakistani scientist responsible for…
Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has had “unauthorized” contact with Asif Ali Zardari, who recently announced his bid to run for president of Pakistan. Pervez Musharraf recently stepped down from the office after Zardari’s Pakistan Peoples Party agreed with Nawaz Sharif, leader of the Pakistan Muslim…
Asif Ali Zardari has announced his bid to run for the presidency of Pakistan a week after Pervez Musharraf stepped down from the office. Zardari is the widower of Benazir Bhutto, former prime minister of Pakistan and took over leadership of her Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) after she was assassinated…
U.S. intelligence agencies have publicly claimed that intercepted communications show that officers of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Pakistan’s intelligence agency, were responsible for the bombing of India’s embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan on July 7. The government of Afghanistan has accused Pakistan of being behind the attack, as well as an earlier…
Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai threatened to send forces into Pakistan in response to militant groups using Pakistan as a base to launch attacks into Afghanistan. “If these people in Pakistan give themselves the right to come and fight in Afghanistan,” Karzai said, “as was continuing for the last 30 years,…
The A.Q. Khan nuclear black market network not only proliferated uranium enrichment technology, but also designs for nuclear warheads small enough to be fitted to a ballistic missile, it has been reported. Khan’s network was shut down in 2004 under pressure from the US. Khan is considered the “father” of…
Pakistan condemned a US airstrike within the country near its border with Afghanistan that officials claimed resulted in the deaths of 11 Pakistani soldiers. The Pakistani government called the incident a “major setback to our relations with the US” and an ambassador from a NATO member nation warned that “Pakistan…
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