The militants who staged the cross-border attack appeared to be targeting members of an anti-Taliban militia in Kitkot village near Pakistan’s Bajur tribal area, said Tariq Khan, a local government official. ...

Abu Yahya al-Libi, a veteran militant said to have been a leader of the group's operations, and who survived previous U.S. attacks, was killed in the drone strike early Monday morning on a hideout in North Waziristan in Pakistan's tribal areas, officials said. ...

"This administration has a feckless foreign policy which abandoned American leadership," McCain said on Sunday. "It cries out for American leadership. American leadership is not there." He accused the administration of trying to "kick the can down the road" until after November. ...

[caption id="attachment_5596" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Pakistani fishermen need a big effort to get the 40-foot whale shark out of the water."][/caption] The shark from "Jaws" was not this big - not even close. Fishermen in Pakistan reeled in a massive 40-foot whale shark Tuesday and reportedly sold it for the sum of $18,750. The largest confirmed whale shark on record was 41 feet long, accor ...

The Taliban in Afghanistan are being directly assisted by Pakistani security services, according to a secret Nato report seen by the BBC. The leaked report, derived from thousands of interrogations, claims the Taliban remain defiant and have wide support among the Afghan people. A BBC correspondent says the report is painful reading for international forces and the Afghan government. A Pakistani foreign min ...

Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari will remain in Dubai for two more weeks, the country's prime minister was quoted as saying, after his rush to a hospital there triggered speculation he might resign. [caption id="attachment_3386" align="alignright" width="360" caption="Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari is seen during a meeting with his Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul (not pictured) in Istanbul No ...

Pakistan may continue its blocking of Nato convoys into Afghanistan for several weeks, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has told the BBC. Pakistan stopped the convoys in protest at US air strikes which killed 24 of its troops at two checkpoints on the Afghan border last month. [caption id="attachment_3381" align="alignright" width="304" caption="Pakistani lorries have been used to transport Nato supplies. ...

At least 30 NATO oil tankers and containers were torched following a rocket attack on a container terminal near Quetta of southwestern Pakistan on Thursday night, reported PTV, a government-run television in Pakistan. [caption id="attachment_3092" align="alignright" width="300" caption="NATO oil tankers burn following a rocket attack."][/caption] According to the local media reports, some unknown people att ...

Pakistani officials gave the green light for the NATO strikes that killed 24 of their troops last month, unaware that the forces were in the area, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. [caption id="attachment_2465" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Pakistan border military post allegedly hit by NATO strike"][/caption] The Journal cited US officials briefed on the preliminary investigation into t ...

The White House said on Monday that the NATO strikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers are a "tragedy, " vowing to carry out investigation into this deadly incident, amid the continuously deteriorating U.S.-Pakistani relations that have been seriously marred by multiple disputes this year. [caption id="attachment_2132" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Pakistanis protest over attack which killed 24 so ...