Source: AP
Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani’s White House visit Monday comes amid increased calls by senior U.S. officials for Pakistan to stop militants from staging cross-border attacks on U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
The prime minister may have his own issues to raise in his talks with President Bush: Gilani visits Washington at a tense moment […]

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Source: TPM Muckraker
It was just one month after the attacks of September 11, 2001.
U.S. forces were poised to invade Afghanistan in just a few weeks.
Gen. Pervez Musharraf in Pakistan was getting a lot of pressure from the White House to cooperate with the newly declared War on Terror. And he wanted a few favors […]

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Source: Trib

By Robert Novak
Yousuf Raza Gilani, prime minister of Pakistan, will lunch with George W. Bush in the White House on July 28. That will not be merely another of the president’s routine meetings with foreign leaders. As Pakistan’s democratically elected government and U.S. diplomats understand, the lunch symbolizes a turn away from Washington’s […]

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Source: Minstrel Boy

Since”2005, al Qaeda forces have been regrouping in the mountains of Pakistan along the Afghan border, and the Bush administration has done little to go after them.
A report in Monday’s New York Times reveals that late last year the administration developed a secret plan for Special Operations forces to enter Pakistani tribal […]

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