Source: New York Times
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is preparing to present President-elect Barack Obama with a lengthy, classified strategy review aimed at reversing the gains that militants have made in destabilizing Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The review contains an array of options, including telling Pakistan’s military that billions of dollars in American aid will depend on […]

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Source: FOX
U.S. lawmakers are promising close scrutiny of the Bush administration’s request to divert hundreds of millions of dollars in anti-terrorism aid to upgrade Pakistan’s aging fleet of U.S.-made F-16 fighter planes.
The Bush administration says the upgraded F-16s will allow Pakistan to better conduct precision attacks on terrorists. But the planes have not traditionally been […]

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Source: New York Times
By HELENE COOPER and MARK MAZZETTI
The Bush administration is increasing pressure on Pakistan’s fledgling civilian government to bring the country’s spy service under civilian control, according to American and Pakistani officials.
During meetings in Washington this week with Pakistan’s prime minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani, senior Bush administration officials pressed their Pakistani counterparts to […]

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Source: Reuters Blog
With Senator Barack Obama looking increasingly confident about winning the Democratic nomination, there have been a new spate of articles on what it would mean for Pakistan if he becomes president.
The most eye-catching, perhaps, was a story in The News about how President Pervez Musharraf’s family in the United States have been giving […]

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Source: Huffington Post
Ever since the September 11th attacks, the Bush administration has been warning Americans that, but for the rule of military dictator General Pervez Musharraf, the sky would be falling. Musharraf, we were told, was what was standing between us and a flood of Islamic extremists who would unleash acts of terrorism around the […]

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