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The brutal truth about Tunisia
Kabul, Pakistan stands on the edge of endless disaster, Egypt has just emerged from another fake election. Then when it looked like the Islamists might win the second round of voting, we supported its military-backed…
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Hindu holy man reveals truth of terror attacks blamed on Muslims
Information contained in a confession given in court by a Hindu holy man, suggests that he and several others linked to a right-wing Hindu organisation, planned and carried out attacks on a train travelling to Pakistan, a Sufi… -
Salmaan Taseer: Governor of Punjab and outspoken defender of minority causes
Two decades later, on the orders of General Zia-ul-Haq's governor, Taseer was thrown into the then dictator's dungeons at Lahore Fort for being a leading member of Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party. -
Omar Waraich: A rare breed of politician who fought for tolerance
Having endured torture and solitary confinement under the military dictatorship of Gen Zia-ul-Haq in the grim 1980s for supporting Benazir Bhutto, he said he had decided that Pakistan could not afford to suffer under religious… -
Bus bomb wounds 15 soldiers' children in Pakistan
The bus was being escorted by two other military vehicles, but they were not hit. Fifteen children were wounded, five of them critically. Area police chief Abdul Latif says the attack occurred in Turbat, 435 miles … -
Pakistan's coalition in turmoil after junior partner walks out
Combined with the earlier departure of Pakistan's largest religious party, the ruling coalition has been reduced to a minority. A planned advance into North Waziristan, the tribal area along the Afghan border that poses the… -
US missiles kill 18 in Pakistan
Pakistan officially protests the strikes, saying they violate its sovereignty and anger tribesmen whose support it needs to fend off extremists. Information from Pakistan's tribal belt is very hard to verify independently. -
Three killed in suicide car bombing in Afghanistan
Pakistan, as evidenced in recent suicide attacks and raids on military posts in Pakistan. Karzai spokesman Waheed Omar, hours after the blast, stressed that Pakistan should not provide safe havens for insurgents and pressed… -
Pakistan aid suspended after suicide blast
The WFP project in Bajaur feeds thousands of people displaced since early 2009 by fighting between the military and insurgents. Shafiq Khan, a WFP official, said the regional government ordered the temporary closure of all… -
Burqa-clad suicide bomber kills 45 in Pakistan
Police believed it was the first time Islamic militants have sent a woman to carry out a suicide attack in Pakistan, where the U.S.led war in The attack in Khar, the main city in the Bajur region of Pakistan's northwest, …
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35 die as militants attack security posts
The clashed in the Mohmand tribal area showed that insurgents in the region retain significant ability to co-ordinate and mount complex assaults, despite multiple military offensives against Taliban and al Qaida fighters in… -
The Year in Review: Afghanistan
Russia has been asked to provide helicopters, train Afghan forces and allow supplies through its territories to replace the route through Pakistan which is getting regularly hit by Islamists. Mullah Omar, former head of the… -
Tributes paid to 347th UK fatality in Afghanistan
Local community leaders say a recent operation, which was led by a British commander, Major General Nick Carter, in Kandahar, the birthplace of the Taliban, led to large numbers of Islamist fighters fleeing across the border… -
US military pushes Obama to allow more Pakistan raids
But it also would place a heavy new strain on Washington's delicate and sometimes fraught relations with Pakistan. The report declared that Pakistan was "central" to US success in Afghanistan but noted that ties between… -
Patrick Cockburn: Nixon adopted this tactic in Vietnam. It won't work…
Even if it wanted to, the Pakistan military could hardly police a frontier through mountainous terrain that is as long as the distance from London to Moscow. The US often focuses its criticism of Pakistan's security policy on…