Topic: Islamabad

U.S. move to hold aid strains ties with Pakistan

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Lawmakers are ready to freeze up to $700 million in aid to Pakistan until Congress gets assurances that Islamabad is helping fight the spread of homemade bombs in the region, a move one Pakistani senator called unwise and likely ...

Clinton says U.S. officials have met with Haqqanis

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday that the United States had held a preliminary meeting with representatives of the Haqqani network, a group of militants Washington has blamed for a series of attacks in Afghanistan.The revelation came soon ...
A gas cylinder exploded on the top floor of a Pakistani hotel in Islamabad late Thursday, injuring three women and a child in a city always on guard against feared terror attacks, police said.The blast struck the Citi Hotel in the Blue ...

Blast at hotel in Islamabad wounds six

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A blast at a hotel in a commercial area of the Pakistani capital Islamabad on Thursday wounded six people, rescue officials said.Police at the scene said the cause of the explosion on the fifth floor of the Citi Hotel ...

"No boots on our ground": Pakistan warns U.S.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan would not tolerate any incursion on its territory by U.S. forces targeting militant groups, the country's interior minister said on Thursday, calling for Washington to provide the intelligence Islamabad needs to take them out itself.Rehman Malik also rejected ...

Military leaders meet to salvage US-Pakistan ties

The top US and Pakistani military leaders met in Spain to discuss ways to shore up strained ties after a US raid that killed Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, according to a Pentagon spokesman.Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mike Mullen and his ...

Analysis: With us or against us? A decade on, Pakistan wavering

(Reuters) - While the ruins of New York's World Trade Center were still smouldering in late September 2001, President George W. Bush put nations around the globe on notice: "Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists."It was an ...

Female suicide bomber hits Pakistan

A female suicide attacker and a handcart bomb targeted Pakistani police on Thursday, killing seven people in the first deadly attacks to hit the northwest during Ramadan, officials said.The city of Peshawar, where the bombs struck, is on the frontline of a ...

Bomb 'wounds 10 Pakistani soldiers'

A bomb attack on Monday wounded at least 10 Pakistani soldiers in the Taliban and Al-Qaeda hotspot of Waziristan on the Afghan border, officials said.The device was detonated by remote control as a military vehicle passed through the Sararogha village area in ...

Soldier dies in thwarted Pakistan suicide attack

A Pakistani soldier was killed on Sunday as troops foiled an attempt by a suicide bomber to attack a military checkpost near the Afghan border, officials said.The bomber's explosives detonated when he was shot outside the Chag Malai post seven kilometres (four ...
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