The Pakistani military’s scattershot security operations over the last eight years have not produced results because they have not been backed by a serious political strategy of development projects in the cleared districts.
Suspected Afghan Taliban militants have killed 11 Pakistanis who crossed into eastern Afghanistan's Paktia Province to detour around a dangerous part of the border area.
The death toll from attacks in a Pakistani tribal town has climbed to 102 as more bodies have been recovered from the debris.
Security officials say the bomber detonated his explosives outside the office of the civil administrator in the village of Yaka Ghund, in Pakistan's tribal belt near the Afghan border.
The meeting between Pakistani Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Shaikh and his Afghan counterpart, Hazrat Omar Zakhelwal, was held during Zakhelwal's two-day visit to the Pakistani capital.
Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has met fellow leaders of seven predominantly Muslim countries at a one-day summit in Nigeria of the so-called D-8 group.
Pakistan's ambassador to the United States, Husain Haqqani, says that Islamabad sees the Taliban as a threat to its security, both in Afghanistan and, increasingly, in Pakistan itself.
Pakistan's prime minister has called on political parties and religious leaders to help the state and army fight Islamist militants.
With 124,000 civilian and military personnel deployed in all corners of the world, the UN's peacekeeping forces are the largest and most visible segment of the world's body global presence. Its significance has dramatically increased in the last decade and is expected to take on even larger role in the next.
The Pakistani city of Lahore is on high alert today after two suicide bombers carried out the latest attack on a religious site extremists consider un-Islamic. The attack on the Sufi shrine killed more than 40 people.
A spokesman for Afghan President Hamid Karzai says Pakistan may extradite a captured top Taliban commander to Afghanistan.
Pakistani officials have dismissed reports that Afghan President Hamid Karzai met a top militant leader in Kabul in a meeting arranged by the Pakistani army.
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