US President George W. Bush has secretly approved orders allowing US forces to conduct ground operations in Pakistan without that government's prior approval, a report said Wednesday citing senior US officials. A US daily reported that the July move ...

Senior Pentagon officials are debating whether the US military should undertake independent operations against militants operating in Pakistan's north-western tribal areas, the Los Angeles Times reported on Saturday. The newspaper said these internal debates followed the US ...

The US Congress moved on Tuesday to suspend a bid by President George W. Bush's administration to shift millions of dollars in aid to Pakistan from counter-terrorism programs to upgrading Islamabad’s F-16 fighter jets. "We have requested a ...

Pakistan's intelligence agents are likely responsible for recent attacks in Afghanistan, and the international community should support the Afghan government's complaints about such activity, a senior United Nations envoy says. Chris Alexander, a former Canadian ambassador now serving ...

Pakistan has denied an Indian claim that a group of Pakistani troops crossed into occupied Kashmir on Monday and shot dead an Indian soldier, sparking a gun battle. "I don't have any information about this incident right now," ...

Security officials in Pakistan were seeking confirmation on Tuesday that a top al Qaeda expert on chemical and biological weapons had been killed in a suspected US missile strike. The news came as Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani held his first talks with US President George W. Bush, centred on ...

Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama has said that al Qaida's safe haven in the Pakistan's restive northwest is a "huge problem" for the American troops. At the Unity Convention of minority journalists in Chicago, Senator Obama repeated what ...

The United States will convince Pakistan not to vote against the India-specific safeguards agreement when the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) meets in Vienna, Austria, later this month or early next month ...

US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Tuesday the US-led war against militants in Afghanistan might be made easier if the United States worked to improve trust between India and Pakistan. Obama, who is on a foreign ...

As Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama visited Afghanistan, Republican White House contender John McCain has once again criticised his rhetoric on unilateral action into Pakistani territory, saying his approach creates difficulties in the way of South Asian ...