NATO, Pakistan Pursue Closer Relations
04 February 2010
Pakistan to NATO: Take Us Into Confidence on Afghan Operations, Thaindian, 4 February 2010
EXCERPT: "Pakistan Thursday urged the US-led NATO forces to take it into confidence before launching operations in areas adjacent to its borders in Afghanistan. 'Pakistan's army should be taken into confidence before launching any offensive by US-led coalition troops at areas, adjacent to Pakistan's border,' army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez...
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Lawmakers Agree to End Karachi Clashes
04 February 2010
Pakistan Lawmakers Agree to End Karachi Clashes With 80 Dead, Bloomberg, 4 February 2010
EXCERPT: "Pakistan's chief minister of the southern province of Sindh said lawmakers from different parties have agreed to end political violence that has claimed 80 lives in the commercial capital of Karachi. 'All the coalition partners have agreed in the best interests of the country to coordinate with each other,' Qaim Ali Shah...
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Response to US Troop Presence Surprisingly Muted
04 February 2010
US Troop Presence in Pakistan Meets Surprisingly Muted Response, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 February 2010
EXCERPT: "A suicide attack Wednesday on a Pakistani paramilitary convoy that killed three American soldiers and five others near a girls? school in the north was a reminder of the increasing US military commitment to the country. The dead soldiers were among roughly 70 US special forces troops currently training Pakistani soldiers...
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A Year After Mumbai, India Offers to Talk With Pakistan
04 February 2010
, The New York Times, 4 February 2010
EXCERPT: "India has proposed high-level talks with Pakistan, the first of their kind since the attack on Mumbai by Pakistani militants in November 2008, but Pakistan has not yet accepted the invitation and is seeking clarification about what will be up for discussion. India invited Pakistan's foreign secretary, Salman Bashir, to meet with his...
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Protests Erupt After Woman Linked to Al-Qaeda Found Guilty in US
04 February 2010
, AFP, 4 February 2010
EXCERPT: "Protests erupted across Pakistan on Thursday after a US court convicted a Pakistani scientist of trying to kill US servicemen in Afghanistan, with President Asif Ali Zardari also calling for justice. A jury in New York found Aafia Siddiqui, a 37-year-old mother and neuroscientist trained at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology, guilty on all charges....
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