Topic: Pakistan
Just before Barack Obama walked up the lectern in Cairo to give his much-trailed address on the future direction of American relations with the Muslim world, at the other end of the Middle East, in Iran, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was delivering ...
Citing generals' worries, Obama administration asks judges to block abuse photos releaseThe Obama administration asked a federal appeals court Thursday to halt the release of disturbing images of detainee abuse, saying the photos could incite violence in Pakistan as well as in ...
President Barack Obama named US ambassadors to Japan, India and Sri Lanka, amid heightened tension in Asia over North Korea's nuclear tests, unrest in Pakistan and ethnic tension in Sri Lanka.Obama named longtime technology-focused lawyer John Roos as US ambassador to Japan, ...
The U.S. Senate on Thursday approved a $91.3 billion measure that President Barack Obama sought to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, meeting some of his priorities but leaving out funding to close the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. It ...
The US Congress will urgently complete an aid bill to stabilize Pakistan, Senator John Kerry promised Thursday after talks with the Pakistani and Afghan presidents. "Obviously, it is urgent," Kerry told reporters after a closed-door luncheon on the situation in Pakistan and ...
President Barack Obama is holding a primetime press conference tonight at 8:00 p.m. The president continues to enjoy high marks from the public-61% of people approve of the job Obama is doing according to the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll-better ratings ...
Clinton says defeating al-Qaida is at the center of Obama's new strategy in AfghanistanSecretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is telling Congress that the core goal of President Barack Obama's anti-terror strategy is to defeat al-Qaida and prevent its return to Afghanistan.Clinton ...
The United States will give Pakistan one billion dollars in aid over two years, the US envoy Richard Holbrooke announced as an international donors' conference opened in Tokyo on Friday.Holbrooke " announced the United States' intent to provide support to the government ...
US lawmakers broadly welcomed President Barack Obama's new Afghan war plan on Friday, but some openly worried about securing more NATO help and getting Pakistan to crack down on extremists. "The proposed military escalation in Afghanistan, without an adequate strategy in Pakistan, ...
Japan will host a donors meeting for Pakistan on April 17 that is set to be attended by the country's President Asif Ali Zardali and US envoy Richard Holbrooke, officials said Tuesday.The World Bank will co-chair the meeting aimed at " helping ...