UN asks for $538M to aid Pakistan, but donor appeal comes amid weak world economy, Haiti quake Aid groups in Pakistan need nearly ...
A massive avalanche plowed into an Indian army training center at a ski resort town in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Monday, killing 17 soldiers ...
Pakistanis skeptical of US claims that Afghan Taliban leaders are hiding in Baluchistan If Afghan Taliban fighters and their top leaders are roaming around this remote part of Pakistan as the U.S. alleges, the police chief here says he hasn't seen them. ...
Pakistani military captures Taliban stronghold in volatile tribal area Pakistani security forces have seized a key Taliban stronghold in a northwestern area that the government had declared free of militants a year ago following a military offensive but has experienced periodic violence ...
India successfully test fires nuclear-capable missile, designed with 1,900-mile range India again successfully test-fired a nuclear-capable missile Sunday that can hit targets across much of Asia and the Middle East, a defense ministry press release said. It was the fourth test of ...
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, left, welcomes speaker of Pakistan parliament's lower house Fehmida Mirza, at the presidency in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi) Copyright 2010 AP News
In this Jan. 7, 2010 photo, Pakistani transvestites gather to pray for a friend who was brutally murdered, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. The community is known as "khusra," which Pakistanis translate as "eunuch" in English, though the meaning is broader than a castrated ...
Supreme Court case gives Pakistan's transgender community hope for greater rights Taunted at home, Sanhya ran away at age 12, searching for acceptance as she sees herself — neither male nor female, but a member of a third gender. Pakistan's transgender community ...
KARACHI (Reuters) - Pakistan's commercial capital Karachi was tense on Saturday a day after two bombs killed 31 people, raising further questions about the effectiveness of security crackdowns on al Qaeda-linked militants. Most shops in the sprawling city of 18 million people ...
As Taliban grows stronger, looming US offensive may open new chapter in Afghan war A new and possibly decisive chapter of the Afghan war is unfolding. The U.S. is preparing a major attack on the Taliban, the militants are being squeezed in ...
People look at the spot of a bomb blast outside a hospital emergency ward where victims of earlier blast were brought for treatment in Karachi, Pakistan, Friday, Feb. 5, 2010. Two bombs exploded in Pakistan's largest city Friday, one outside a hospital ...
A Pakistani mother who reportedly lost her son wails after a bomb explosion outside an emergency ward of a local hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, Friday, Feb. 5, 2010. Two bombs exploded in Pakistan's largest city Friday, one outside the hospital treating victims ...
