UN Appeals for $538M in Pakistan Humanitarian Aid - ABC News
Pakistani refugees who fled fighting in Pakistani troubled Valley of Swat, wait to get bread in... Pakistani refugees who fled fighting in Pakistani troubled Valley of Swat, wait to get bread in Jalozai camp in Peshawar, Pakistan last week. The ...
Playing to gallery, Qureshi rants Pakistan didn't kneel - Economic Times
Even before finalising dates for the foreign secretary-level talks, Pakistan foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi in a public meeting in Multan claimed that Pakistan had held its ground and forced India to the negotiating table. “Two days ago ...
Pakistan captures Taliban stronghold - Boston Globe
KHAR, Pakistan - Pakistani security forces have seized a key Taliban stronghold in a northwestern area that the government had declared free of militants a year ago after a military offensive but has experienced periodic violence since then. The army captured Damadola on Saturday as part of an
At least 15 Indian soldiers killed in Kashmir avalanche - canada.com
SRINAGAR, India -- At least 15 Indian soldiers were killed after an avalanche smashed into a military training camp near the country’s disputed border with Pakistan on Monday, police and army said. The accident occurred in the Khilanmarg area near ...
PCB to probe Pakistan's tour of woe - Sydney Morning Herald
THE Pakistan Cricket Board has launched an inquiry into its team's disastrous tour of Australia. Former Pakistan wicketkeeper Wasim Bari, who is the PCB's chief operating officer, has been appointed to head the six-man committee to ''look into the ...
Plot to bomb Pakistan hotel foiled - ninemsn
... Karachi, but rarely release any details of the alleged plots ... officer Waris Bhurwana, who was involved in the arrests, said police set up a checkpoint on the main highway from Peshawar in the northwest and intercepted a small Suzuki car ...
Slideshow: Pakistan - YAHOO!
People mourn next to the dead body of their relative, who was killed by unknown gunmen, at a local hospital in Rawalpindi, Pakistan on Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. Police say gunmen attacked a vehicle carrying a former Pakistani government minister just ...
Security bloc considers adding Iran, Pakistan - CNBC
BEIJING - The conflict in Afghanistan and expanding its membership to include Iran and Pakistan are key issues facing the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in the coming year, its new head said. "In the current global context, the top priority is ...
Intikhab Alam likely to be sacked as Pakistan coach - The Gaea Times
November 14th, 2009 KARACHI - The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is mulling to replace the current national team coach Intikhab Alam with former captain and coach Javed Miandad. According to a source, most players are unhappy with Intikhab and the ...
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World Blog: Did 'pandering' cost U.S. lives at Afghan base?
Why did eight American soldiers die defending an remote outpost the U.S. military no longer wanted to hold? NBC News' Richard Engel reports from Kabul.
Afghan avalanches kill at least 28, strand 1,500
 Avalanches on a mountain pass north of Kabul have killed at least 28 people, with another 1,500 stranded in their vehicles on snow-blocked roads, Afghan officials said Tuesday.
Haiti awash in Christian aid, evangelism
 The drama on the sidelines of Haiti's earthquake, in which 10 American missionaries were arrested trying to take children out of the country, was a fiasco waiting to happen. By Kari Huus.
Recovery effort revives China’s quake zone
 China is showing off the results of its massive drive to rebuild its own quake zone 22 months after a 7.9-magnitude temblor struck and devastated the region and left at least 90,000 dead.
Report: Iran begins controversial nuke process
 Iran's state TV said the country started enriching its uranium to a higher level of 20 percent, over the objections of the international community.
NATO: Afghans to play big role in offensive
 Thousands of Afghan soldiers and police will join U.S. and NATO troops in an offensive in southern Afghanistan, playing their biggest role in any joint operation of the Afghan war.
Spring rains threaten Haitian survivors
 In Haiti's devastated capital city, early spring rains threaten to cause landslides and bring about health problems in the makeshift camps where more than 500,000 people are living.
Mexico arrests 2 reputed leaders of drug gang
Mexican authorities on Monday arrested two suspected leaders of a brutal drug trafficking gang that terrorized the border city of Tijuana for several years, a U.S. official said.
N. Korea’s Kim reiterates disarmament pledge
China's Xinhua News Agency says that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has reiterated his country's promise to achieve a denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.
Anti-whalers, Japanese fleet fire water cannons
 Activists vowing to stop the killing of whales exchanged water-cannon fire with a Japanese whaling fleet they are tailing in the Antarctic Ocean, as sea confrontations that have led to collisions and a sunken vessel continue.
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