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"Some fact-checking is indeed in order. Pakistan is a $175 billion economy. Since 2002, the US has provided on average $825 million annually in economic assistance to Pakistan. On the other hand, Pakistani expatriates have remitted on average $1 billion each month in 2011, making remittances an...

US used Kashmir quake to send killer-spies into Pakistan Uttara Choudhury New York: The Pentagon used the Kashmir earthquake of 2005 to send operatives from the Joint Special Operations Command, or JSOC into Pakistan, reveals a new book. The JSOC has proven to be the most lethal weapon...

Finally some good news. But makes you wonder how damn cheap we were transporting their diet pepsi and fries for them compared to others! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WASHINGTON — The U.S. is paying six times as much to send...

In late October, on a rutted road in the mountains of northwest Pakistan, 16-year-old Tariq Khan drove the family car to pick up his aunt. His 12-year-old cousin Waheed sat in the passenger seat next to him. Just a few hundred yards before they reached their destination, a small missile fired...

A Debate Between Pakistan Army Soldier and Taliban Scholar Part -1 - YouTube A Debate Between Pakistan Army Soldier and Taliban Scholar Part -2 - YouTube

(BBC)The most senior US military officer has accused Pakistan's spy agency of supporting the Haqqani group in last week's attack on the US Kabul embassy. "The Haqqani network... acts as a veritable arm of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Agency," Adm Mike Mullen told a Senate panel...

Pakistan has agreed to allow the CIA to send a forensics team to examine the compound where Osama bin Laden was killed, giving the agency permission to use sophisticated equipment in a search for al-Qaeda materials that might have been hidden inside walls or buried at the site, U.S. officials...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — As Pakistan’s powerful military leaders seek to overcome extraordinary public criticism after the killing of Osama bin Laden this month in a Pakistani garrison city, they are also facing seething anger in barracks across the country. Some of the outrage among the ranks...

American and British diplomats fear Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme could lead to fissile material falling into the hands of terrorists or a devastating nuclear exchange with India. The latest cache of US embassy cables released by WikiLeaks contains warnings that Pakistan is rapidly...

Pakistan forcing Taliban militants to keep fighting, Karzai says in leaked cable Afghan President Hamid Karzai told a US envoy this year that the Pakistani government is forcing Taliban fighters to keep fighting coalition forces, according to a State Department cable released by WikiLeaks...

Members of Pakistan's spy agency are pressing Taliban field commanders to fight the U.S. and its allies in Afghanistan, some U.S. officials and Afghan militants say, a development that undercuts a key element of the Pentagon's strategy for ending the war. The explosive accusation is the...

The eight officers, led by a two-star Navy rear admiral, were on their way to a meeting at US Central Command. They had boarded a United Airlines Flight from Washington to Tampa on Monday but were taken off the aircraft because of comments made by one of the men, according to an airline...

Mr Zardari arrives in Britain this week facing accusations that he is using a meeting with Mr Cameron as a smokescreen for an attempt to shore up his political dynasty, at a time his country is struggling to cope with its worst floods for 80 years. His decision not to fly home has led to...

Relatives of 23 suspected militants killed by Pakistani forces in the north-west on Tuesday said they were in custody at the time of their death. Elders in Dir district said most of the suspects were handed over to the armed forces by local village councils. The military said the men were...

Every few days Pakistan makes the worst kind of headlines: bombings in markets and mosques, battles with the Taleban. But, much less widely reported, the daily lives of millions of Pakistanis are consumed by another problem. They have to cope with desperate poverty. And as one woman's harrowing...

It's time we mined the border and said you know what, "we're now neutral". It's your War, deal with it! ............................................................................................. Bomb attacks that are killing British troops in Afghanistan are being funded and supplied...

Government institutions in Pakistan owe $2bn to the cash-strapped national power company, it has emerged. Power Production Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf told parliament that the defaulters included the army, the Supreme Court and the presidency. Pakistan is currently going through a major...

Israeli troops have been accused of stealing from activists arrested in the assault on the Gaza flotilla after confiscated debit cards belonging to activists were subsequently used. In their raid of 31 May, the Israeli army stormed the boats on the flotilla and, as well as money and goods...