Days after a visit to Kabul visit by Hillary Clinton, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, says he would side with Pakistan in the event of war with the US.
The oldest cliché in Afghanistan is to describe the country in terms of the "great game".
There goes the neighbourhood, a local wailed, but there might yet be some takers.
Obama administration sticks to its guns amid conflicting reports on Bin Laden’s death
In Balochistan, mutilated corpses bearing the signs of torture keep turning up, among them lawyers, students and farm workers.
The suicide bomber, his faced cloaked in black, solemnly approaches a line of comrades, hugging each one in turn. Wailing jihadi chants fill the air.
More than two million cases of malaria are expected in Pakistan in the coming months in the wake of the country’s devastating floods.
More than two million cases of malaria are expected in Pakistan in the coming months in the wake of the country’s devastating floods.
The main focus is along the lawless 2 500km frontier with Afghanistan, where insurgent commanders can freely recruit, resupply and seek finance.
The Pakistani government has agreed to withdraw troops and introduce Sharia law in the conflict-ravaged Swat valley in return for an end to Taliban suicide bombings and attacks on government buildings. The peace deal was signed this week by the newly elected government of North-West Frontier Province and representatives of the extremist cleric Maulvi Fazlullah.