Deputy U.S. Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Frank Ruggiero, has been appointed as the acting US Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan following the death of Richard Holbrooke. "He (Ruggiero) will lead the SRAP (Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan) structure that ...

President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday visited the US Embassy to offer his condolences at the sad demise of Ambassador Richard Holbrooke and lauded his services for Pakistan. While recording his message in the condolence book, the President said, Pakistanis, like many other around the world, mourn ...

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressing her grief over the untimely demise of Richard C. Holbrooke, the Obama administration's special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan since 2009, said America has lost one of its fiercest champions and most dedicated public servants. "Tonight ...

Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. special envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan, is in the intensive care unit at a hospital in Washington, according to a media reports, citing a hospital official. Holbrooke, 69, felt ill while working on at the State Department headquarters, Philip Crowley, the department ...

The US State Department says Richard Holbrooke, special envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan, is in critical condition at a Washington hospital after surgery to repair a tear in his aorta. Department spokesman P.J. Crowley says the surgery at George Washington University Hospital was completed ...

The White House is confident that the US-Pakistan ties will withstand any negative effect emanating from the diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks, US Special Representative Richard Holbrooke has said, while vowing continued efforts towards building mutual trust. "These dreadful leaks, these ...

WASHINGTON (APP) - The White House is confident that US Pakistan friendship will withstand any negative effect from the documents released by WikiLeaks, Special Representative Richard Holbrooke said Thursday, while vowing continued efforts towards building mutual trust. Holbrooke, speaking in the ...

BERLIN (Reuters) The United States welcomes Afghan reconciliation efforts but believes recent reports about secret talks between the Taliban and Afghan government are exaggerated, the senior US official for Pakistan and Afghanistan said. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke said in Berlin on Monday that ...

The US Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke has acknowledged that Pakistan has an important and legitimate role in Afghanistan. He was participating in Special Roundtable with national and international radio networks hosted by Radio Pakistan in Islamabad Friday ...

WASHINGTON - The US Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan offered encouragement Sunday for negotiations Afghan President Hamid Karzai has held with Pakistani military officials and Taliban leaders. Karzais meeting with Pakistans top national security officials - Army Chief General Ashfaq Kayani ...

Indian concerns over closer US-Pakistan ties are misplaced, US special envoy Richard Holbrooke said Thursday, as he also sought to allay fears over Pakistan's growing role in Afghanistan. "Improved American relations with Pakistan are not bad for India," said Holbrooke, who was in Islamabad last ...

ISLAMABAD - With my thanks for preserving, in this magnificent museum, an indispensable record of the variety, beauty and quality of Pakistan, wrote Richard Holbrooke, US Special Representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan, in the Visitors Book of the Heritage Museum after paying a visit to the ...

KARACHI - MQM Rabita Committee Deputy Convenor and Federal Minister for Overseas, Dr Farooq Sattar, on Monday met the US Special envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke, Special Assistant of US President David Lipton and US foreign ministry officials at Washington. In a statement ...

NEW Delhis doors, it appears, will not open anytime soon for Richard Holbrooke, US Special Envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan, according to a report carried by The Times of India. Holbrooke has been frozen out of India yet again, after his recent statement that Indians were not really targeted in ...

US Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke has said that US is not dictating Pakistan and relations between both countries is getting stronger and stronger. Talking to media men at Pakistani embassy in US, he said, the action taken by Pakistan against militants has ...

WASHINGTON (Agencies) Amid reports that the US may cooperate with Pakistan in civilian nuclear use, a top American diplomat on Tuesday said that the Obama Administration would soon unwrap a range of actions for Islamabad in the field of energy, security and water. Special US Representative for ...

At a press briefing on the upcoming Strategic Dialogue between the Untied States and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, said the U.S. was extremely gratified that the Pakistani Government has apprehended the number-two person in the Taliban. His ...

US special envoy Richard Holbrooke said that he is agnostic about whether Pakistan had decisively turned against the Afghan Taliban. Holbrooke made the comment in an interview with the Financial Times in relation to Pakistan's arrest of the Afghan Taliban's operational commander Mullah Abdul Ghani ...

Uzbekistan's reclusive leader told a U.S. envoy the Central Asian nation was determined to work more closely with the United States to help oust the Taliban from neighboring Afghanistan. Relations between Uzbekistan, long under fire over human rights violations, and the United States have improved ...

The United States will support a plan to reintegrate Taliban fighters set to be announced by Afghan President Hamid Karzai, special representative Richard Holbrooke said Wednesday. Holbrooke said Karzai will outline an ambitious plan Thursday to convince low-level and mid-level Taliban fighters who ...

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will focus on the real needs of the Pakistani people during her upcoming vitally important visit to Pakistan and talks with the countrys leadership, the Obama Administrations envoy for the region said. She is bringing a message of friendship and support to a ...

US AfPak Special Representative Richard Holbrooke convened a Pakistan policy discussion at Fort McNair in Washington today (Monday), reported ForeignPolicy.com on Sunday. According to the website, todays powwow is similar to one Holbrooke convened on Afghanistan back in May, an official said. The ...

U.S. President Barack Obama's special envoy to Pakistan said Thursday that securing hard-fought gains in the Swat Valley and ensuring the safe return of refugees uprooted by the government's anti-Taliban campaign should be Islamabad's top priority. Pakistan's military is winding down an offensive ...

Prime minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani said that the government in concert with the people will work to eliminate the terrorism and extremism. Addressing the foundation-laying ceremony of Aiwan-e-Quaid-e-Azam, he said the forces are gaining success every coming day in the operation against ...

Apparently upset with their remarks over alleged link between ISI, Taliban and Al-Qaeda, the Pakistani spy agency chief Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha refused to meet visiting US Special Representative Richard Holbrooke and American military commander Admiral Mike Mullen. "Islamabad carefully ...

The U.S. special envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke has said that tackling terrorism in the region will be a daunting task for the Obama Administration in the coming months. Interacting with reporters at the White House, Mr. Holbrooke also linked the problem of instability in ...

US President Barack Obama's special representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke made a phone call to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani. According to sources, Holbrook expressed concerned over country's present situation.

US special envoy Richard Holbrooke has confirmed that Kashmir is not part of his mission, but hoped India and Pakistan would find common cause to reduce the threat of terrorism by taking it head on. "Yes, it is not part of my mission to work on Kashmir," the envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan told ...

The visit of special US Representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke to South Asia including India is for consultative purposes, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said here. Holbrooke left for London Wednesday on a trip, which will end with his visit to Pakistan, Afghanistan and ...

The United States has made it clear that its newly appointed special envoy on Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, has no mandate to deal with Kashmir and his sole job is to help bring stability to Afghanistan. "His mandate is to go out and try to help bring stability to Afghanistan, ...