Pakistan
Barack Obama to unveil reforms to anti-terrorist policies
January 05, 2010U.S. officials say President Barack Obama will announce a series of reforms to the nation's counterterrorism policies Tuesday, following the attempted December 25, bombing of a U.S. jetliner Mr. Obama will outline the new measures, including changes...
More security screening for travelers to US from 14 suspect countries
January 04, 2010The U.S. government has ordered more security screening for people flying into the United States from 14 countries at high risk for terrorism. The new security measures come after the the failed Christmas Day (December 25) attack on a U.S.-bound jetliner...
Report blames US military leaders for missing Bin Laden in 2001
November 29, 2009Senate report says former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and the top US military commander General Tommy Franks rejected requests for a massive contingent of American troops to attack Tora Bora mountains. A U.S. Senate report says top military...
US Charges Terror Suspect with Bomb Plot
September 24, 2009An Afghan-born man detained in the United States as part of a terror investigation has been charged with conspiring to detonate bombs in the U.S. The indictment unveiled Thursday in New York alleges Najibullah Zazi spent more than a year plotting the...
Bombings kill more than 100, Bhutto safe
October 19, 2007Blasts in Karachi, Pakistan, set off near the homecoming motorcade of Benazir Bhutto, reportedly killed about 120 but the former prime minister escaped. A CNN report Friday, quoting hospital and police sources, said at least 124 people were killed...
Pakistan violence claims dozens of lives
September 14, 2007Violence in various parts of Pakistan on the eve of the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan has killed dozens, The Washington Post reported Friday. In the most daring of the incidents directed against the military, a suspected suicide bombing...
Violence, death toll rising in Pakistan
July 16, 2007Two attacks in Pakistan Sunday increased the regional death toll to 61 during the last two days and came as militant groups ended a peace treaty. The BBC said an attack on a Pakistani military convoy near the nation's northwest border killed 11 soldiers...
Bombings kill one, injure two in Pakistan
December 26, 2006Islamabad (dpa) - One person died Tuesday from a car bomb outside the Peshawar city airport in Pakistan's restive North-West Frontier Province (NWFP), while two other blasts occurred in other regions. Three people were initially injured when explosives...
One killed in riot in southern Pakistan
December 15, 2006Islamabad (dpa) - One person was killed when a strike by transport workers, mainly belonging to the ethnic Pushtoon community, turned violent Friday in Pakistan's port city of Karachi. Violence flared in the city of more than 12 million people after...