By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 04 July 2007 Pakistani officials warned heavily armed militants holed up inside a radical mosque in central Islamabad to lay down their weapons or face attack. After a deadline for 1100 local time passed, several hundred st...
By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 03 July 2007 Pakistani security forces have exchanged gunfire with hundreds of students holed up inside a radical mosque in central Islamabad. Officials have confirmed six deaths, including security personnel and students,...
By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 02 July 2007 Pakistani officials are denying reports that the government has eased travel restrictions on disgraced nuclear scientist AQ Khan. He has been under strict house arrest since 2004 after he confessed to selling n...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 30 June 2007 Pakistan this weekend is closing two camps for Afghan refugees. The U.N. refugee agency is urging the government of Pakistan to make sure the closure goes peacefully. Violent clashes occurred in mid-May when Pakist...
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 29 June 2007 India says it is close to finalizing a deal to transport natural gas from Iran to India via Pakistan. As Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, officials from the three countries have held talks in the India...
By Raymond Thibodeaux Srinagar 25 June 2007 There has been a slow but steady thaw in relations between India and Pakistan in the past two years, with improvements in intergovernmental communication and cross-border transportation. But there has been...
By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 05 June 2007 Pakistani journalists hold oil torches as they march towards presidency during rally to condemn crackdown against media, in Islamabad, 04 June 2007 Pakistani journalists and media rights activists are lashing o...
By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 23 May 2007 Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf is under increasing pressure to crack down on a radical Islamist mosque in the country's capital, whose students have abducted at least seven police officers since Frida...
By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 15 May 2007 Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf has told a meeting of the Organization of the Islamic Conference in Islamabad that Muslim nations must stop blaming others for their troubles and solve their own problems. V...
By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 15 May 2007 Pakistani volunteers, security officials gather at the suicide bombing site in Peshawar, 15 May 2007 A powerful bomb blast in northwestern Pakistan has killed at least 25 people and seriously injured more than 2...