WASHINGTON – The Obama administration let North Korean leader Kim Jong Il save face by releasing two jailed Americans to former President Bill Clinton.  Read More →

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama finds himself in a political box — at home and abroad — on closing the Guantanamo Bay prison, and he has prepared  Read More →

Rezaul H Laskar Islamabad, Apr 19 (PTI) Warning that Pakistan “is in danger”, former President Pervez Musharraf today said its leadership must take cognisance of concerns expressed by world community about security situation in the country but asserted that nobody should dictate  Read More →

NEW DELHI: Barely days after the warning by the intelligence agencies against possible fidayeen strikes to disrupt Lok Sabha polls, Hizbul Mujahideeen chief Salahuddin threatened to launch terror strikes during the polls. According to Times Now, the terror outfit issued warning of  Read More →

The simmering political crisis in Pakistan on Monday blew over, with former prime minister Nawaz Sharif calling off the long march, after the government buckled and announced the reinstatement of deposed Supreme Court Chief Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.  Read More →

London, Mar 8 (ANI): Agyness Deyn has inherited her grandma Agnes Cook’’s off-the-wall style, according to the supermodels mum. “My mum was a real beauty and she was really into fashion. She used to work as a window dresser at C&A in Manchester. She was a teenager  Read More →

PESHAWAR: A bomb-laden car exploded on Saturday in northwestern Pakistan as police were trying to pull a body from it, killing seven policemen and a passer-by, authorities said. It appeared to be the first time militants in Pakistan had targeted security forces by using a body  Read More →

LAHORE, PAKISTAN: Masked gunmen opened fire on the Sri Lankan cricket team’s bus in the Pakistani city of Lahore on Tuesday, killing at least eight people and wounding sic team members, police said. Up to 12 gunmen attacked the team’s convoy near the Gaddafi stadium  Read More →

WASHINGTON: All major terrorist networks have a safe haven in Pakistan to operate creating a big “problem” to the US war against terror, defence secretary Robert Gates has said. “I think it’s the safe haven on the Pakistani side of the border, not just for Al-qaida but for the  Read More →

PESHAWAR: Taliban on Tuesday declared an indefinite ceasefire in Pakistan’s restive Swat valley where they have been waging an armed campaign for last two years. Taliban spokesman Muslim Khan told reporters in Swat that a meeting of the ‘Shura’ or ‘council’ of the militants  Read More →

NEW YORK: The Obama administration has expanded the covert war run by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) inside Pakistan by attacking a militant network seeking to topple the Pakistani government, the New York Times reported on Saturday. Two missile  Read More →

WASHINGTON: Troubled over Pakistan government’s concession to the Taliban in the Swat Valley, a top Obama administration official has said the US would not like “bad guys” to get hold of any territory in the country. “We are troubled and confused in the sense about  Read More →

WASHINGTON — President Obama said Tuesday that he would send an additional 17,000 American troops to Afghanistan this spring and summer, putting his stamp firmly on a war that he has long complained is going in the wrong direction. The order will add nearly  Read More →

The US missile attack that killed up to 27 suspected neo-Taliban militants in Ladha, South Waziristan, along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border is testimony to the determination of the Obama administration to sustain the current military operations against terrorist hideouts  Read More →

WASHINGTON: Greeting India on the occasion of the country’s 60th Republic Day, US President Barack Obama said Indians have no better friend and partner than the people of the United States. “As Indian people celebrate Republic Day, they should know that they  Read More →

WASHINGTON: The new Obama administration cautioned Pakistan that it would be held accountable for the security in the border regions of Afghanistan and that its performance in the fight against terrorism would be linked to the financial aid to the country.  Read More →

WASHINGTON — Barack Obama stood at the threshold of the White House on Monday, summoning fellow Americans to join him in service as tens of thousands flocked to the nation’s capital to celebrate his inauguration as the first black president. “Tomorrow we will  Read More →

WASHINGTON – Invoking hope and history, President-elect Barack Obama rolled into the capital city Saturday night after pledging to help bring the nation “a new Declaration of Independence” and promising to rise to the stern challenges of the times. He kicked  Read More →

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – The elder daughter of Pakistan’s assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto has written a rap song expressing her anguish over her mother’s death. The song, entitled “I Would Take the Pain Away,” and a five-minute video of clips  Read More →

Pakistan’s increasingly turbulent border region poses threats not just to the US mission in Afghanistan, but also to neighbouring India and the world beyond, according to President George W. Bush’s national security adviser.Thus the biggest foreign-policy challenge  Read More →