Source: The Christian Science Monitor
Washington is seeking to build the Pakistani state and its economy as a way to wean the country from Islamic extremism.
Washington - In an admission that its dependence on the Pakistani military has yielded few results against the Taliban, the United States is now seeking to change its relationship with Pakistan […]

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Source: AFP
After setting a deadline to pull US forces from Iraq, President Barack Obama is shifting gears quickly to Afghanistan and Pakistan as he lays out a broad, regional approach to fighting extremism.
The Obama administration held three days of talks last week with the foreign ministers of Afghanistan and Pakistan and said it would turn […]

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Source: Daily Times
I can accept politics but I do have a problem with our supposedly free media. They spend hours covering those killed in US strikes across the Durand Line but they have no time for all those killed by suicide bombers
After the Marriott bombing, apologists for the bombers keep crawling out of the woodwork. […]

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Source: China View
ISLAMABAD, May 26 (Xinhua) — It will require determined efforts on both sides of the Afghanistan and Pakistan border to tackle the challenges to global security presented by violent extremism, the visiting British Defense Secretary Des Browne said here on Monday.
Browne made the remarks while holding a series of talks with Pakistan Defense […]

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I am going to try to be as blunt and straight-forward as possible without deviating from the issue at hand (NOTE: I said I’ll try!).
This ‘one sided’ peace agreement with the Taliban holed up in Pakistan’s North is NOT GOING TO WORK!
Unless Islamabad has a few tricks up their sleeves and are earnestly at […]

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Source: Teeth Maestro
By Aitzaz Ahsan for Newsweek February 11, 2008
In the past months, as the crisis in Pakistan has worsened, key figures in the Bush administration, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, have spoken out about the need for free and fair elections and have condemned extremism. Yet they’ve continued through-out to support the man […]

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Pakistan has been faced with the twin menace of terrorism and extremism for quite some time and some in Pakistan claim, and still others in the West think, that a democratic dispensation can rid thecountry of the problems of extremism and terrorism.
This is not true. While it may be true that a return to democratic […]

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Source: AFP
LONDON (AFP) — A 29-year-old dentist was jailed in London on Tuesday after admitting planning to travel to Pakistan to carry out unspecified acts of terrorism.
Sohail Qureshi, who was sentenced to four and a half years, was detained at London Heathrow Airport in October 2006 carrying thousands of pounds in cash, as well as […]

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