Backstage, U.S. Nurtured Pakistan Rivalsâ Deal
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The violence that greeted Benazir Bhuttoâs return to Pakistan has raised questions about whether a tenuous power-sharing deal with President Pervez Musharraf can survive.
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ISLAMABAD - Pakistan and Afghanistan decided Monday to enhance their antiterrorism capabilities by forging greater cooperation between their intelligence agencies and antiterror forces deployed on both sides of their border.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- A former prisoner at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, thought to have forged ties with Al Qaeda since his release is leading a militant band whose members have strapped explosives on two Chinese engineers they kidnapped in a lawless region near the Afghanistan border.
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Nawaz Sharif's expected return from exile will reintroduce to Pakistani politics a power broker who champions democracy but has lined up with Islamists against President Gen. Pervez Musharraf &#151; whatever the cost to relations with Washington.
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President Bush welcomed the feuding leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan to the White House last night for an unusual round of personal diplomacy aimed at forging better relations between two key partners in U.S. efforts to hunt down members of al-Qaeda and other Islamic terrorists.
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The United States provided a steady stream of intelligence to Benazir Bhutto about threats against her before the former Pakistani prime minister was assassinated and advised her aides on how to boost security
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President Bush has a lot to talk about with his main Muslim ally in the war on terror, and at the top of the list is the U.S.-Pakistan alliance itself.
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Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to increase cooperation against Islamic militants operating along their border. The agreement was reached at talks in Islamabad between Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and Afghanistan&#39;s President Hamid Karzai.
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How Pakistan's A.Q. Khan outwitted Western intelligence to build a global nuclear-smuggling ring that made the world a more dangerous place. The inside story
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US, Pakistan step up efforts to address the militant haven tied to global terror.
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The United States Sunday sparked heated verbal skirmishes by refusing to rule out military action against Al-Qaeda leaders sheltering inside Pakistan, one of its closest &quot;war on terror&quot; allies.
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In the first high-level interaction, between the US and Pakistan after President George W Bush&#39;s re-election, US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage promised to continue close co-operation with Islamabad.
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Pakistan's ÂtruceÂ with militants in the lawless region bordering Afghanistan has set off concern among American analysts.
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Pakistan is taking a more welcoming view of U.S. suggestions for using American troops to train and advise its own forces in the fight against anti-government extremists, the commander of U.S. forces in that region said Wednesday.
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Visiting US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said here on Tuesday that the United States will further enhance its relations with Pakistan.
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In Diyala, the vast province northeast of Baghdad where Sunnis and Shiites are battling for primacy with mortars and nighttime abductions, the U.S. government has contracted the job of promoting democracy to a Pakistani citizen who has never lived or worked in a democracy.
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Recent intelligence shows Pakistani  militants are trying to infiltrate Western companies and  non-governmental groups in Afghanistan in a plot to kidnap  foreigners, the U.S. Embassy in Kabul said on Wednesday.