Topic - Pakistan

• SANDERS: The cost of a hasty retreat from Afghanistan

  Two recent, deeply intertwined acts of violence demonstrate the terrible burden hanging on the outcome of the U.S. intervention in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

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  French gunman's brother charged, denies role

  A Frenchman suspected of helping his brother plot attacks against Jewish schoolchildren and paratroopers was handed preliminary murder and terrorism charges Sunday.

• Say Hello! to Pakistan's glamorous side

  Pakistan is better known for bombs than bombshells, militant compounds than opulent estates. A few enterprising Pakistanis hope to alter that perception with the launch of a local version of the well-known celebrity magazine Hello!

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  Taliban warn Pakistani lawmakers over NATO supplies

  The Taliban on Sunday threatened to attack Pakistani lawmakers and their families if they support allowing NATO to resume shipping supplies through the country to troops in neighboring Afghanistan.

• Say Hello! to Pakistan's glamorous side

  Pakistan is better known for bombs than bombshells, militant compounds than opulent estates. A few enterprising Pakistanis hope to alter that perception with the launch of a local version of the well-known celebrity magazine Hello!.

• Taliban bomber kills 5 rival militants in Pakistan

  A government official and militant spokesman said a Taliban suicide bomber has attacked a rival group's headquarters in northwest Pakistan, killing at least five fighters.

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  Official: No sign French suspect had al Qaeda ties

  French authorities have no evidence that al Qaeda commissioned a French gunman to go on a killing spree that left seven people dead, or that he had any contact with terrorist groups, a senior French official said Friday.

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  Allen: Corruption, safe havens block Afghan success

  The top allied commander in Afghanistan said Thursday that the two biggest obstacles to success in Afghanistan are corruption in the Afghan government and militant safe havens in Pakistan.

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  An Army commander weighs in

  OUTLAW PLATOON: HEROES, RENEGADES, INFIDELS AND THE BROTHERHOOD OF WAR IN AFGHANISTAN

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  Pakistani panel calls for end to U.S. drone strikes

  A Pakistani parliamentary commission has demanded an end to U.S. drone strikes inside the country and an unconditional apology for a NATO attack that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers in November.

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  Pakistani Parliament says no to U.S. drones

  A Pakistani parliamentary commission demanded Tuesday an end to American drone attacks inside the country and an apology for deadly U.S. airstrikes in November as part of a review of its near-severed relations with the United States.

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  Gingrich edges away from hawkish past on campaign trail

  Once considered a leading voice of the foreign interventionist wing of the Republican Party, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on the presidential campaign trail this year has been edging away from his trademark "Make my day" aggressiveness toward those hostile to the United States.

• World Scene: SWIFT financial service cuts ties with Iran

  The SWIFT global financial transaction service said Thursday that it was cutting ties with Iranian banks that are subject to European Union sanctions aimed at discouraging the country from developing nuclear weapons.

• Bomb kills 6 anti-Taliban fighters in Pakistan

  A Pakistani official said a bomb killed six members of an anti-Taliban militia in a northwestern town close to the Afghan border.

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  Suspected U.S. drone strike kills 6 in northwest Pakistan

  American drone-fired missiles hit a vehicle traveling on the Pakistan side of the Afghan border on Tuesday, killing six militants from a group known to have signed a nonaggression pact with the Pakistani army, intelligence officials and a local tribesman said.

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