The top military commander of the Taliban, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, has been captured in Karachi, Pakistan, in a secret raid by U.S. and Pakistani intelligence forces, "The New York Times" has reported.
In its "World Press Freedom Review" for 2009, the International Press Institute (IPI) is critical of media conditions in many countries, noting that a total of 110 journalists were killed doing their work last year.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden says the situation in Pakistan is his biggest foreign policy concern.
Pakistani officials say a suicide bomber killed at least 18 police officers in Pakistan's tribal region on the Afghan border on February 10.
Even before the death of Hakimullah Mehsud has been categorically confirmed, speculation is rife as to who would succeed him as the leader of Pakistan's most lethal extremist organization.
Gunmen opened fire at the election office of a former Pakistani government minister, killing four people and wounding two, officials said.
Pakistani forces have captured a stronghold of Al-Qaeda-backed militants near the Afghan border after days of clashes in which 60 militants were killed, the military said.
A report says Pakistani authorities have detained 35 suspects in connection with a bombing that killed three U.S. soldiers, three schoolgirls, a Pakistani paramilitary soldier, and wounded scores of other people in northwest Pakistan, near the Afghan border.
Pakistan will take all steps to secure the release and return home of a Pakistani woman convicted in a U.S. court for shooting at her U.S. interrogators in Afghanistan, a government spokesman said today.
The Pakistani military says three U.S. soldiers are among at least seven people killed in an attack in the northwest of the country.
Afghan and U.S. officials are encouraged by a recent deal in eastern Afghanistan under which a major tribe has agreed to keep the Taliban out of their territory in return for aid. But while the move might help in stemming the Taliban tide, some warn it could create more conflicts and bloodshed in the future.
U.S. President Barack Obama has proposed $1.2 billion in funding next year to help train and equip Pakistani security forces to fight Taliban militants.
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