Give Pakistan aid, not weapons
Canada should lend Pakistan a helping hand as it struggles to stabilize its chaotic border region with Afghanistan, which is plagued by Taliban militants who threaten stability. It doesn t follow that Prime Minister Stephen Harper s government needs ...
 1.0K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 306.0 Al-Qaida training sites are harder to locate
WASHINGTON (AP) Under growing pressure from U.S. missile strikes, the al-Qaida terror network is relying more heavily on local insurgent groups along the Pakistan border to house training camps that are growing smaller and more mobile, according to...
1.5K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 118.0 Pakistan army enters Taliban stronghold
ISLAMABAD (AP) Pakistani soldiers battled Taliban fighters today in the streets of a key militant stronghold, officials said, as government forces pressed ahead with their offensive in the tribal region of South Waziristan. The soldiers were fighti...
3.6K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 751.0 Pakistan Taliban: 'We are prepared for a long war'
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) A Taliban spokesman denied today that Pakistan has won a series of battlefield victories in its offensive in tribal South Waziristan, saying the militants are drawing government soldiers into a trap. We are prepared for a lo...
2.0K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 394.0 Suicide bomber kills 30 near Pakistan's capital; UN suspends work
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) A suicide bomber killed 30 people outside a bank near Pakistan s capital today, as the U.N. said spreading violence had forced it to pull out some expatriate staff and suspend long-term development work in areas along the ...
1.3K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 137.0 Pakistanis voice frustrations
ISLAMABAD (AP) U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton came face-to-face today with Pakistani anger over U.S. aerial drone attacks in tribal areas along the Afghan border, a strategy that U.S. officials say has succeeded in killing key terro...
5.1K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 546.0 Obama mulls a reduce troop plan
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama is considering a scaled-down version of the war plan advanced by his top Afghanistan commander, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, U.S. officials say. Such a narrowed military mission would increase American forces to accom...
5.7K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 93.0 Bomb tears through Pakistan market
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) A car bomb tore through a crowded market in northwestern Pakistan today, killing 57 people hours after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived in the country to show American support for its campaign against I...
0.7K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 356.0 NATO considers beefing up support
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) Top NATO and United Nations officials signaled Friday they may request more international troops to join American forces in Afghanistan as the top U.S. defense official said President Barack Obama is still weeks away from ...
4.7K - Oct. 25, 2009; scored 59.0 Obama s top foreign aid position is still open
WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama faces increasing pressure to fill his administration s vacant top foreign assistance post, but there s no candidate in sight nine months into his term. The U.S. Agency for International Development is in charg...
4.9K - Oct. 25, 2009; scored 93.0 NATO considers beefing up support
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) Top NATO and United Nations officials signaled Friday they may request more international troops to join American forces in Afghanistan as the top U.S. defense official said President Barack Obama is still weeks away from ...
4.7K - Oct. 24, 2009; scored 59.0 Obama s top foreign aid position is still open
WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama faces increasing pressure to fill his administration s vacant top foreign assistance post, but there s no candidate in sight nine months into his term. The U.S. Agency for International Development is in charg...
4.9K - Oct. 24, 2009; scored 93.0 Current strategy is a loser
More and more, it looks as though President Barack Obama is going to adopt a split the difference policy on Afghanistan that will basically continue current strategy and likely lead to catastrophe. Obama told congressional leaders he does not int...
3.2K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 93.0 Blasts at Pakistan air base, wedding bus kill 24
ISLAMABAD (AP) A suicide bomber killed seven people near a major air force complex in northwest Pakistan today, while an explosion killed 17 on a bus heading to wedding elsewhere in the region, the latest in a surge of militant attacks this month....
3.8K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 784.0 Army brigadier, soldier killed in Pakistan capital
ISLAMABAD (AP) Suspected militants on a motorbike shot and killed a senior army officer and a soldier in the Pakistani capital today, striking at security forces as the military wages a major anti-Taliban offensive in the northwest. Civilians fleei...
4.1K - Oct. 22, 2009; scored 237.0 Suspected US missile kills 3 in Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) Intelligence officials say a suspected U.S. missile strike has killed three alleged militants in Pakistan s North Waziristan tribal region. The region lies adjacent to South Waziristan, an al-Qaida and Taliban stronghold tha...
0.6K - Oct. 21, 2009; scored 663.0 India blocks climate deal
NEW DELHI (AP) Eight South Asian countries have agreed they can t be part of any climate change deal that sets legally binding limits on their emissions, an Indian official said today. India, Pakistan and six other nations will present a coordinate...
1.7K - Oct. 20, 2009; scored 59.0 Attacks kill 4 at college in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Two suicide attackers bombed an Islamic university in the Pakistani capital today, killing four people and wounding 18 as the army pressed ahead with a critical offensive on a Taliban stronghold near Afghan-istan, authorities s...
3.3K - Oct. 20, 2009; scored 237.0 Pakistani army fights militants in mountains
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) Troops fought militants on three fronts and fighter jets bombed insurgent positions today as Pakistan pressed ahead with its assault on an al-Qaida and Taliban sanctuary close to the Afghan border. The army and the T...
1.4K - Oct. 19, 2009; scored 427.0 Blast kills four soldiers
KABUL (AP) A roadside bomb killed four American troops in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. said Friday, as a U.N.-backed panel finished most of its investigation into whether the level of fraud in the August presidential election would force a runoff...
4.5K - Oct. 18, 2009; scored 59.0 | 
