Taliban militants on Thursday assumed control of a district in Pakistan about 100 kilometres from the capital, patrolling streets and markets, officials and witnesses said.
Hundreds of armed fighters have set up checkpoints and occupied mosques in Buner district northwest of Islamabad, sparking global concern and posing what Washington has called an “existential threat” to the [...]
Pakistan on Tuesday rejected Indian claims that “official agencies” here backed the Mumbai attacks, saying the accusations were irresponsible and a sure way to raise tensions between the neighbours.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh earlier said “some official agencies” in Pakistan had supported the gunmen who laid siege to Mumbai in November, and accused Islamabad of [...]
Pakistan has redeployed thousands of troops to the border with India, officials said on Friday, in a dramatic escalation of tensions with New Delhi in the wake of the Mumbai attacks.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh summoned his military chiefs to review New Delhi’s “defence preparedness” while his foreign ministry advised Indians not to travel to [...]
ISLAMABAD – Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf announced in a televised address to the nation Monday that he had decided to resign after nine years in power to avoid the threat of impeachment.
The former army chief, who seized power in a bloodless coup in 1999, was under huge pressure from the governing coalition to step down [...]