Source: BBC News
The US has expressed concern over a deal Pakistani authorities reached with pro-Taleban militants in the Swat valley in north-western Pakistan.
The agreement allows the imposition of Sharia law in the region in return for an end to the Taleban insurgency.
Richard Holbrooke, US special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, said he was worried […]

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Source: BBC News
Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani has said that his country and the US must base their relationship on “trust, cohesion and understanding”.
He said that Pakistan and the new US administration must realise each other’s “strengths and constraints in their struggle against extremism”.
He was speaking after US envoy Richard Holbrooke began talks in […]

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Source: Daily Times
ISLAMABAD: US Special Representative Richard Holbrooke will visit Pakistan from February 9-12, in what is being seen as the beginning of constructive engagement with the US after President Barack Obama’s assumption of office, according to a press release issued by the Foreign Ministry Affairs on Saturday. The statement said Pakistan wanted to develop […]

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Source: China View
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) — U.S. President Barack Obama’s special envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke will travel to South Asia after attending the Munich security conference next week, the State Department said on Thursday.
“Ambassador Holbrooke … is going, I think, on Tuesday to attend the Munich security conference and then he […]

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Source: Al Jazeera
Amid Barack Obama’s inauguration as US president, the war on Gaza and the aftermath of the Mumbai attacks, Pakistan’s media had until recently all but ignored the descent into hell of the Swat Valley in the North-West Frontier Province.
The valley has been transformed from a tourism magnet because of its alpine scenery into […]

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Source: Daily Times
* Gilani asks UK to allow export of defence equipment to Pakistan
* UK defence secy pledges continued capacity-building assistance
Staff Report
ISLAMABAD: The United States and NATO should strengthen the mechanism of intelligence sharing and assist Pakistan in building the capacity of its law-enforcement agencies to effectively confront the extremists and terrorists instead of […]

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I am really amazed at the man (AAZ) because he is cheapening Pakistani medals to mean nothing! We may value all of these individuals (Boucher, Biden and every other Kala Chor and his mother,  aunt and uncle who makes a mistake of visiting our blessed leaders) as friends  of Pakistan but giving them a piece of […]

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Source: Press TV
The US rejects Pakistan’s claims that Jamaat-ud-Dawa, a group allegedly involved in the Mumbai terror attacks, is a charitable organization.
US Secretary of Sate Condoleezza Rice told reporters Wednesday at the UN Headquarters in New York that Pakistan will have to adhere to the UN Security Council’s ban on the group - an affiliate […]

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Source: Reuters
By Simon Cameron-Moore
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A former head of the Pakistani military’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency said Sunday the United States wants him on a U.N. list of people and organizations linked to al Qaeda and the Taliban.
Long retired, Lieutenant-General Hamid Gul told Reuters the U.S. moves against him began several weeks ago, pre-dating the […]

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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: Chicago Tribune
Fiscal realities make new conflict between rivals less likely
By Henry Chu and Laura King | Tribune Newspapers
December 6, 2008
NEW DELHI—Hostility between India and Pakistan is at its worst in years, but tensions stemming from last week’s terror attacks in Mumbai are unlikely to bloom into full-blown war between the nuclear-armed rivals—at least for […]

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Source: The Christian Science Monitor
The terror attacks in India next door have emphasized the instability in the region.
Washington - Much as the 9/11 terror attacks quickly focused the Bush administration on its relations with Islamabad, last week’s terrorist assault on Mumbai (formerly Bombay) only elevates the central preoccupation that Pakistan poses for President-elect Obama.
Already, the […]

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Source: DAWN
By Our Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Dec 3: The White House said on Wednesday that it agreed with a bipartisan congressional commission’s report that Pakistan sat closest to the intersection of nuclear weapons and terrorism.
“I have no reason to disagree with it,” said White House Press Secretary Dana Perino when asked if the White House agreed with […]

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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: 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: China View
ISLAMABAD, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) — Pakistan’s senate Monday adopted a unanimous resolution strongly condemning missile attacks by American drones in Pakistan’s territory.
Leader of the House in the senate Mian Raza Rabbani moved the resolution, saying that the United States attacks in Pakistan’s territory have resulted in immense loss of life.
Suspected U.S. drones fired […]

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Source: New York Times
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — President Asif Ali Zardari is scheduled to visit China for four days starting Tuesday, in an effort to reinforce Pakistan’s ties with a traditional ally at a time when relations with the United States have come under considerable strain.
President Zardari’s visit comes barely two weeks after Gen. Ashfaq Parvez […]

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Source: Pakistan Observer
WITH each passing day we are witnessing actions by the United States which reflect the hostile designs of the sole superpower hurting the interests of Pakistan. Continued violation of our airspace, criticism over lack of action to eliminate militants in FATA, expression of doubt over the security of our nuclear assets by the […]

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War has come to Pakistan’s door step a long time ago. It is most unfortunate that even till yesterday, many of us denied this fact. Not any more. Not when War has pushed in to our house and is now in our living rooms, in our bedrooms, in our backyards, every where around us.
Pakistan is […]

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 This opinion was first published at The WeCite Blog
I’m not convinced we are winning it in Afghanistan. I am convinced we can… We are looking at a new, more comprehensive strategy for the region that would cover both sides of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. In my view, these two nations are inextricably linked in a […]

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Source: International Herald Tribune
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani plans to meet with U.S. President George W. Bush at a gathering of political and business leaders in Egypt.
It will be the highest-level contact between the two governments since Pakistan’s new leaders offered peace talks to Islamic insurgents. NATO expressed concern Wednesday that the […]

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Source: The New York Times
WASHINGTON — American commanders in Afghanistan have in recent months urged a widening of the war that could include American attacks on indigenous Pakistani militants in the tribal areas inside Pakistan, according to United States officials.
The requests have been rebuffed for now, the officials said, after deliberations in Washington among senior […]

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Source: Reuters Blog
The United States, beginning with President George W. Bush himself, has this past two weeks trained its crosshairs on Pakistan, warning that another Sept. 11, if it were to happen, would most likely not be plotted out of Iraq, Afghanistan or even Iran, but Pakistan.
Like the steady drumbeat that has often preceded major […]

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Source: Reuters
By Zeeshan Haider
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan has an effective command and control structure for its nuclear weapons and they are fully safe and secure, the country’s new prime minister said on Thursday.
Pakistan is the only nuclear-armed Muslim nation and is a staunch ally of the United States in its campaign against al Qaeda and […]

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Source: The Australian
A PLAN by the US to seek direct “oversight” of Pakistan’s powerful nuclear arsenal and the command structure that controls it was heading for rejection last night after it was denounced in Islamabad as “outright interference” in the country’s affairs.
The secret plan, disclosed in the Pakistan media, would for the first time see […]

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