PESHAWAR, Pakistan: Fierce fighting between foreign militants and local tribesmen in northern Pakistan in the past few days has left at least 58 people dead, government and security officials said Tuesday.Among the dead were 42 militants f…

PESHAWAR, Pakistan ― Along the Afghan border, not far from this northwestern city, Islamic militants have used a firm foothold over the past year to train and dispatch suicide bombers against American and NATO forces in Afghanistan.But in …

パキスタンとタリバン。インドとアメリカの核開発合意は忘れていたな。 I suspect Musharraf is walking a razor blade. I suspect that since the squandered opportunities in the War in Afghanistan, and especially since the U.S.- India nuclear deal…

For the time being, officials say, the White House has ruled out unilateral strikes against the training camps that American spy satellites are monitoring in North Waziristan, in Pakistan’s tribal areas on the border. The fear is that such…

The problem is the wider strategy. The Taliban have a seemingly inexhaustible supply of recruits, enjoy sanctuary in Pakistan and almost certainly have greater staying power than the foreign troops. The marines do not have the numbers to h…

NEW DELHI: Indian and Pakistani officials said peace talks between their countries would open in Delhi on Wednesday as planned, reaffirming their determination not to allow the train bombing that killed at least 68 people Sunday night to u…

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (UPI) -- The way Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf reads the geopolitical tea leaves in the Middle East and South Asia is not to our liking, but hardly surprising. Political science 101 shows a U.S. Congress, contro…

DIWANA, India: A pair of homemade bombs exploded on a train headed for Pakistan from India about midnight Sunday, trapping slumbering passengers in flames and complicating anew the strained relationship between the two South Asian rivals.B…

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 ― Senior leaders of Al Qaeda operating from Pakistan have re-established significant control over their once-battered worldwide terror network and over the past year have set up a band of training camps in the tribal re…

TEHRAN, Feb. 18 ― The Iranian Foreign Ministry charged Sunday that Sunni insurgents from Iran used Pakistan as a base to plan a bombing that killed 11 people and wounded more than 30 in the southeastern border city of Zahedan last week. Th…

Fears that Taliban militants are preparing to launch a spring offensive from Pakistan's tribal areas are straining relations between President Pervez Musharraf and his US-led allies.American officials are increasingly vocal about the dange…

But North Waziristan, a hotbed of militancy and Taliban training camps, all secluded within its intractable folds of mountain, has become the barometer by which America judges Pakistan's commitment to the campaign.At present, tensions betw…

QUETTA, Pakistan ― A suicide bombing killed a judge and 15 others inside a courtroom in southwestern Pakistan Saturday, the deadliest in a string of attacks that have rattled the country in recent weeks.But authorities said they were in th…

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