Source: Telegraph
Pakistan has claimed to have defeated Taliban militants in a key border stronghold.
Maj Gen Tariq Khan, the commander of military operations in five of Pakistan’s seven tribal agencies, said his paramilitary Frontier Corps (FC) had driven extremists out of Bajaur, where Pakistani forces have waged a six-month long campaign.
He denied reports –and claims by […]

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Source: Washington Post
ISLAMABAD, March 1 — Suspected U.S. missiles killed seven people in a Taliban stronghold in Pakistan on Sunday, officials said, while a cleric’s two-week deadline for the creation of Islamic courts rattled peace talks with militants elsewhere in the country’s northwest.
The missile strike underscored the Obama administration’s unwillingness to abandon a Bush-era tactic, […]

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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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 We are passing through a most critical political and economic situation since long. We have not even breathed the air of real freedom, people are at a distance from the corridor of power having no, or little participation in the decision making process affecting the future of their generation. The old chosen ones and those […]

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Source: Washington Times
Missile strategy kills five terror suspects
U.S. missiles fired from drones killed at least five suspected al Qaeda fighters in Pakistan just east of the Afghan border Friday, signaling that one key element of the Bush administration’s war on terror remains unchanged.
agence france-presse/getty images Pakistani paramedics treat a victim of a missile attack in […]

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Source: International Herald Tribune
MIRAN SHAH, Pakistan: Suspected Taliban militants killed six alleged U.S. spies in a lawless region of northwest Pakistan where U.S. missile attacks have targeted al-Qaida hideouts, police said Tuesday.
Word of the killings came as U.S. Gen. David Petraeus, head of U.S. Central Command and commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, […]

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Source: China View
ISLAMABAD, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) — Pakistan Sunday again ruled out hand-over of suspects of Mumbai attacks to India a day after the Indian prime minister asked Islamabad to hand over those behind the attacks.
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi renewed Pakistan’s policy at a press conference that no suspect would be handed over to […]

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Source: VOA News
Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry says it has swapped a list of nuclear facilities with India, as part of an agreement prohibiting attacks on such installations.
The countries have routinely exchanged these lists on the first day of the year since 1992, under an agreement signed two decades ago.
Thursday’s exchange was carried out as normal, despite […]

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Source: Guardian
Helicopter gunships strike along border in effort to secure supply lines for western troops, officials say
Pakistani helicopter gunships today launched attacks along the Khyber Pass as part of a new offensive to secure vital supply lines for western troops fighting Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan.
Authorities suspended the shipment of supplies to the Afghan border yesterday […]

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Source: Daily News

Pakistan faces tremendous pressure from the United States to extradite to India Zaki Al Rahman Lakhvi, the alleged mastermind of the Mumbai terror attacks, US and diplomatic sources told Dawn.
The Americans are believed to have given Pakistan a taped conversation Mr Lakhvi allegedly had with the gunmen involved in the attacks.
Diplomatic sources in […]

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Source: The Hindu
New Delhi (IANS): Intensifying international pressure on Pakistan in the wake of the Mumbai carange, influential US Senator John Kerry, a close aide to US President-elect Barack Obama, on Monday said Islamabad should take on the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and bring the spy agency ISI under civilian control.
“It’s imperative to comply and terrorist camps […]

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Source: Daily Times
WASHINGTON: Dr Aafia Siddiqui, whom a government doctor has declared unfit to stand trial, will be repatriated to Pakistan, if a plea made by the Pakistan government succeeds in persuading American authorities to drop the case they have lodged against her of murderous assault on US serviceman in Kabul.
According to the official US […]

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WASHINGTON: The US and Pakistani governments have reached a tacit agreement on Predator strikes on Pakistani territory, under which Islamabad allows them while continuing to complain about them and Washington never acknowledges them, The Washington Post reported on Sunday. (more…)

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Source: Reuters
By Kamran Haider
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan will reopen a main supply route to Western forces in Afghanistan on Monday, a week after militants hijacked more than a dozen trucks on the road through the Khyber Pass, a senior official said on Sunday.
Most supplies, including fuel, for U.S. and NATO forces in landlocked Afghanistan […]

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Source: Guardian
Man and his driver attacked in Peshawar district where many diplomats and foreign aid workers live
A US aid worker and his driver were shot dead in north-west Pakistan today, police said.
A senior police officer, who requested anonymity, told Reuters the man was attacked after leaving his home in the University Town area of Peshawar, […]

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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: BBC News
US Gen David Petraeus is due to meet Pakistan’s army chief on his first visit to the country since becoming head of US Central command.
The trip comes amid tensions between Islamabad and Washington over US missile strikes on suspected Islamist militants in northwest Pakistan.
Last Friday Gen Petraeus took control of US military operations […]

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Source: CNN
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) — Pakistan’s foreign ministry said Wednesday that it has lodged a “strong” protest with the U.S. ambassador over missile attacks conducted on Pakistani soil by unmanned drones.
The ministry said it summoned Ambassador Anne Patterson to underscore that such attacks violate Pakistan’s sovereignty and should be stopped immediately.
A statement from the ministry […]

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Source: Radio Australia
Prominent Pakistani politician, Imran Khan says the country is heading for a financial and social disaster.
Pakistan has held discussions with the International Monetary Fund and needs up to $US4.5 billion in the next month to deal with a balance of payments crisis.
Mr Khan says there’s no government strategy for tackling the problems and […]

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Source: VOA
Pakistan’s parliament has called for an urgent review of the nation’s security strategy, with an emphasis on dialogue aimed at reducing violence.
In a rare joint session held behind closed doors, both houses of parliament late Wednesday passed a resolution calling for dialogue with all parties willing to abide by the rule of law. That […]

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Source: CBS
China has privately agreed to follow a “step-by-step” approach to fulfilling Pakistan’s aspiration for an expanded nuclear energy program, rather than sign an ambitious civil nuclear program of the kind recently struck between the U.S. and India, senior Pakistani and Western officials said on Thursday.
Private discussions are believed to have been held on expanded […]

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Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Pakistani politician and cricket great Imran Khan says his country is heading towards anarchy because of the war on terror.
Addressing the 2008 National Radio Conference on the Gold Coast on Friday, Khan said Pakistan was experiencing increasing suicide bomb attacks and instability since the US-led invasion of Afghanistan.
He compared Pakistan’s current situation […]

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Source: The Christian Science Monitor
Prospect of Afghan-Taliban peace talks gains currency
Against the backdrop of a string of suicide bombings in Pakistan, British, American, and United Nations officials are grappling with the idea of a negotiated settlement with the Taliban.
On Monday, a suicide bomber struck the home of a prominent politician in Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province, […]

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Source: Economic Times
ISLAMABAD: The United States has asked Pakistan to undertake joint military patrols of its border with Afghanistan along with NATO forces and Afghan troops to end cross-border raids and fight against Taliban militants.
The US also sought the participation of Pakistan in a major winter offensive against the Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants.
At a recent […]

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Source: Jamestown Foundation
10/03/2008 - By Tariq Mahmud Ashraf (from Terrorism Monitor, October 3) - Recent events in Pakistan have raised critical issues concerning the continuation of Pakistan’s support for the U.S.-led war on terrorism in Afghanistan. Commencing with the enormous backlash in Pakistan in the aftermath of the raid by U.S. Special Forces on Angoori […]

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