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Second bombing in 24 hours hits Peshawar
A suicide bomber in an auto-rickshaw blew himself up in Peshawar, killing three people, a day after another suicide bomber killed an anti-Taliban village mayor and 11 other people in an attack near the city
Analysis: Pakistan needs a new world view
The country’s military hunts with the hounds and runs with the hares: hammer this jihadi group one week, and arm, aim and fire that jihadi group the week after. It is these extremists – all of them – who are the mortal threat to Pakistan, not India, writes David Gardner
Hotel attack kills at least 35 in Pakistan
A powerful car bomb blast outside a hotel near the army’s general headquarters in Rawalpindi, on the outskirts of the capital, killed at least 35 people
Analysis: Obama’s Vietnam moment
War and politics: As Barack Obama prepares to decide on a surge in troops to Afghanistan, he risks pleasing neither hawks nor doves – a dilemma similar to that of Lyndon Johnson four decades ago
Clinton says al-Qaeda sheltered in Pakistan
The visiting US secretary of state says she found it ’hard to believe‘members of the Islamabad government did not know the hiding places of al-Qaeda leaders
India keen to restart talks with Pakistan
Manmohan Singh, India’s prime minister, in a visit to Srinagar urged Pakistan to move forward a dialogue towards a “permanent peace” between the two countries, who have fought three wars since partition 62 years ago
Pakistan vows to resist Taliban
Pakistan vowed not to buckle in the face of almost daily terror attacks by Taliban militants even as the worst attack in two years greeted the arrival of Hillary Clinton, US secretary of state
Clinton pledges new era in ties with Pakistan
US secretary of state promises a new era in Washington’s relations with Islamabad at the start of a visit intended to stiffen Pakistani leaders’ resolve against the Taliban
Distrust runs deep between Pakistan and US
Misperceptions carry the weight of fact in Pakistan; nowhere more so than where the US, and arch-rival India, are concerned
Iranian guards arrested in Pakistan
Tensions have mounted rapidly between the countries since a suicide bomb attack in south-eastern Iran on October 18 killed 40 people, including senior commanders of Iran’s revolutionary guards
