ISLAMABAD: Afghan President Hamid Karzai is expected to press Pakistan during a visit that began Thursday on specific steps Islamabad can take to facilitate peace talks with the Afghan Taliban.
Pakistan is seen as key to the peace process because (...)
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's foreign minister said Thursday that the country would be willing to push the Taliban and their allies to make peace if asked to do so by the Afghan government, an action seen as key to the reconciliation process.
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ISLAMABAD: The chief witness in a secret memo scandal that threatens to bring down the Pakistani president will not travel to the country to testify, claiming the government has set a trap to prevent him from leaving, his lawyer said (...)
ISLAMABAD — Carrots haven't worked with Pakistan. Neither have sticks. Now the U.S. has enlisted the power of jazz music to improve relations with Pakistanis at a time when the important alliance has hit rock bottom.
The Ari Roland Jazz Quartet (...)
Carrots haven't worked with Pakistan. Neither have sticks. Now the US has enlisted the power of jazz music to improve relations with Pakistanis at a time when the important alliance has hit rock bottom.
The Ari Roland Jazz Quartet certainly faced (...)
LAHORE, Pakistan — While many young tech wizards strive to invent the next iPad, Umar Saif is working to bring Internet-style networking to millions of Pakistanis who don't have access to the Web. He could shake up the country's politics in the (...)
ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan (AP): The official tourist map for Abbottabad urges visitors to discover its "hidden" treasures. Some think that should include a peek behind the infamous walls of Osama bin Laden's compound.
It makes sense to the deputy head (...)
BENGHAZI, Libya: Libyan rebels may be low on weapons needed to topple Moammar Gadhafi, but there is certainly no shortage of souvenirs available commemorating the revolution.
Roughly a dozen stands set up outside the courthouse in downtown (...)
Libyan rebel fighter Jaad Jumaa Hashmi cranks up the volume on his pickup truck's stereo when he heads into battle against Moammar Qaddafi's forces.
He looks for inspiration from a growing cadre of amateur rappers whose powerful songs have helped (...)
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Monday criticized the release of classified US diplomatic cables that reportedly raise concerns that highly enriched uranium could be diverted from its nuclear program to build an illicit weapon.
US officials have long (...)
KARACHI: Pakistan's plea for billions of dollars to recover from this summer's floods has sparked pressure on the country to reform a tax system that collects very little money, even from the rich.
The country's biggest donor, the United States, (...)
ISLAMABAD: It will cost billions of dollars for Pakistan to recover from massive floods that have devastated the country, further straining a government already dependent on foreign aid to prop up its economy and back its war against Islamist (...)
CAIRO: Egypt's foreign minister on Saturday dismissed a US-Israeli agreement aimed at cutting off weapons smuggling into the Gaza Strip, raising questions about how effective it would be in preventing arms from reaching Hamas.
The deal signed in (...)
CAIRO: Armed with a bottle of Egyptian brandy and a bowl of steaming chickpeas, Hatem Fouad keeps watch each night over a historic slice of Cairo that is in danger of dying: the bars that once flourished amid the sweeping boulevards and graceful (...)
SHARM EL-SHEIKH: Mideast bankers on Monday staunchly defended sovereign wealth funds - the vast government-directed pools of investment money that have raised controversy in the West - contending they helped save the US financial system from (...)
CAIRO: The head of the UN nuclear watchdog agency said Sunday that he was not concerned about Arab countries using nuclear energy for power development, despite international controversy over Iran s atomic program.
Many countries in the Middle (...)
CAIRO: Under pressure from the US and Israel, Egypt has significantly improved its efforts at detecting and destroying tunnels used for smuggling weapons across its border into the Gaza Strip, a US congressman said Monday.
US Rep. Steve Israel, a (...)
CAIRO: Dr. Khaled Awad is a risk-taker. A doctor by training, he decided at age 26 to give up a secure position in one of the country's state-run hospitals to do something considered crazy by most of his countrymen: Start his own business.
Awad, (...)
CAIRO: The Internet, satellite television and even the telephone are increasingly being used in the Muslim world to issue fatwas - religious decrees - on issues as varied as whether women can pluck their eyebrows or good Muslims should read Harry (...)