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: Council on Foreign Relations
Over the past five years, a rolling series of political and security crises have gripped Pakistan, but throughout much of this turmoil a relatively robust macroeconomic outlook provided a source of stability and opportunity. From 2004 to 2007, gross domestic product (GDP) growth ran over 7 percent annually, and bullish investors–Pakistani […]

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Source: ABC News
The United States Has Given Pakistan $13 Billion Since 9/11 but Almost All of It Has Gone to the Military
Next to his milky tea, the flies covering his bread and the flickering TV with election results in the corner, even 24-year-old Ghulam Jaffer appreciated the moment.
Sitting in a small restaurant next to a […]

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Source: Wall Street Journal
As the election results were becoming clear, Pakistan’s Aaj TV news station summed up the cautious optimism with which the country greeted Obama’s victory, flashing the headline: “Obama wins, world awaits promised change.”
For many in Pakistan and Afghanistan, Obama’s promised change can’t come soon enough. Both countries are struggling to beat back […]

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Source:Reuters
by: Simon Cameron Moore

Pakistan cropped up with uncomfortable regularity during the U.S. presidential campaign, but listening to Barack Obama and John McCain it was difficult to discern how different their approach would be in dealing with one of America’s most complicated and conflicted allies.
Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari met leaders of both the Democrat and […]

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Source: Reuters
WASHINGTON, Oct 27 (Reuters) - The next U.S. president stands to inherit a potentially more dangerous challenge in Afghanistan and Pakistan than the situation that led to the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001.
The situation is so serious that analysts say the incoming administration will need to move quickly on a broad new initiative to […]

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Source: Chicago Tribune
A group of Pakistani-Americans and anti-war activists delivered a letter Thursday to the Chicago office of Sen. Barack Obama, calling on him to cool political rhetoric about bombing targets in Pakistan.
“We are particularly concerned with your public pronouncements earlier this week in support of violating the borders of our ally, the country of […]

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Source: Daily Times
* Obama vows to attack Taliban and Al Qaeda if Pakistan is unwilling to do so
* McCain stresses working with Islamabad, says support from Pakistani people necessary, not prepared to cut off aid
By Khalid Hasan
NEW YORK: Barack Obama may have lost not only his first debate with Sen John McCain but also the […]

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Source: The Hindu
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday said the United States presidential nominee Barack Obama’s charge against Pakistan was a serious issue and the Manmohan Singh government should take it up with the Pakistan High Commissioner here.
Mr. Obama had accused Pakistan of misusing American aid for preparing for a war against India.
BJP spokesman Ravi […]

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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: Daily Times
WASHINGTON: Pakistan came up again as Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama sparred with each other in their last debate on Monday night, six days before the crucial Texas and Ohio primaries. If Clinton loses those two states, she is out of the race for her party’s presidential nomination.
Clinton said, “Senator Obama … last […]

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