NEW YORK The Committee to Protect Journalists, a New York-based watchdog body, has called onPakistan’s interim government to reverse its decision to expel New York Times bureau chief Declan Walsh from the country. “The expulsion of Declan Walsh shows just how much ...

The CIA has delivered tens of millions of dollars in cash packed in suitcases and backpacks to the office of Afghan President Hamid Karzai for more than a decade, the New York Times reported Monday."We called it 'ghost money'," Khalil Roman, Karzai's deputy chief of staff from 2002 to 2005, told ...

NEW YORK - The New York Times, a leading American newspaper, has failed in its latest attempt to seek Obama administration’s legal justification for the drone attacks and other methods it has used to kill terrorism suspects overseas. US District Judge Colleen McMahon Wednesday said the ...

WASHINGTON - The ruling PPP's muted response to the ouster by the Supreme Court "highlighted the cardinal principle of government under (President Asif Ali) Zardari: ensuring his political survival, even at the cost of sacrificing his most loyal lieutenants," a leading US newspaper reported ...

NEW YORK - The United States' refusal to apologize for the its November airstrike on Pakistani border posts killing 24 soldiers has led to the collapse of the latest round of negotiations between the two countries, The New York Times reported Saturday."The White House, angered by the recent ...

NEW YORK - High salaries and advanced technology make the United States the “most powerful magnet” for foreign doctors, attracting more medical physicians annually than Britain, Canada, and Australia combined, the New York Times reports.Already one in four physicians practicing in the ...

NEW YORK - Iraqi officials have expressed outrage at the United States use of a small fleet of surveillance drones to help protect the US Embassy, Consulates and American personnel in Iraq, The New York Times reported Monday.While senior Iraqi officials say the aircraft are an affront to their ...

NEW YORK — Supreme Court has inserted itself as the third player in the military-civil confrontation, raising fears that its widening role could damage democracy and lead to military intervention, according to a dispatch published in a leading US newspaper on Monday.‘Once they were ...

NEW YORK - President Barack Obamas announcement earlier this month that the United States will pull out all its forces from Iraq by the end of the year appears to be just a political stunt as a leading newspaper reported Sunday that plans were underway to bolster its military presence in the ...

NEW YORK - Amid intensification of the media campaign against Pakistan, especially ISI, a leading US newspaper reported Sunday that Washington had forced a Pakistani Consulate official in New York, who allegedly spied on Pakistanis living in America, to leave the country. Mohammed Tasleem, a ...

WASHINGTON - Denouncing what it called Pakistans double game in the war on terror, an influential American newspaper Saturday pleaded against cutting off aid to the strategic country as demanded by several Congressional leaders and others politicians. Some members of Congress are asking why the ...

NEW YORK - The tide in the long-running hunt for Osama bin Laden turned in August when the Al-Qaedas leaders trusted courier was located in a secure and large compound in Abbottabad, The New York Times reported Monday. Intelligence operatives surmised that such a compound was not designed for a ...

NEW YORK - Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman has met with army leaders to discuss steps to limit President Hosni Mubaraks decision-making authority and possibly remove him from the presidential palace in order to open negotiations with opposition, The New York Times reported from Cairo ...

NEW YORK - The concentration of insurgents in North Waziristan makes it easier for American drones to strike at them, but American officials still want Pakistani forces to do more on the ground, The New York Times reported Tuesday. Citing senior US intelligence and counterinsurgency officials, the ...

NEW YORK - An Afghan drug lord, who was arrested and brought to New York to face charges under a new American narco-terrorism law, was also a longtime informer for the Central Intelligence Agency and other American agencies, The New York Times reported Saturday on its website. US prosecutors ...

NEW YORK Afghan security companies have been bribing Taliban insurgents to let American and other NATO convoys pass through the tribal badlands that they escort, The New York Times reported Monday. In a dispatch the newspaper said Afghan guards from Watan Risk Management travelled on the highway ...

NEW YORK - Pakistan Army is now considering an offensive into the restive North Waziristan fearing that the area may have become a witches brew of Jihadi groups, The New York Times reported on Friday. Citing US officials, the newspaper reported from Islamabad that there was a shift in the Armys ...

NEW YORK - Growing political opposition in Iran may present an opportunity for the United States to strike hard with sanctions, The New York Times reported Sunday, citing unnamed American officials. The Obama administration is considering sanctions that would specifically target the Islamic ...

NEW YORK - The terrorist attack on Sri Lanka's team in Lahore shattered the belief that crickets popularity in South Asia protected it from terrorism, a leading U.S. newspaper said Wednesday in a review of cricket activities around the world in 2009. "The attack underlined a much unhappier truth, ...

NEW YORK - US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has hired contractors from a controversial private security firm for loading bombs and missiles on drones to hit Al-Qaeda targets in Pakistan and Afghanistan, a job previously performed by the spy agency's workers, a leading American newspaper ...

NEW YORK - After a series of attacks against Westerners and African forces by Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, experts fear the group has become a significant security threat, The New York Times reported Friday. Citing American and European security counter-terrorism officials, the newspaper said ...

NEW YORK - The fall of Buner last week to the Taliban militants involved tactics that could be replicated elsewhere, the New York Times reported Sunday. The lesson of Buner is that the dynamic of the Taliban insurgency, as methodical and slow building as it has been, can change suddenly and the ...

NEW YORK - Pakistans political and military circles dont agree with the United States that the threat from Al-Qaeda and the Taliban is a dire one as they view India as the enemy, The New York Times said Monday, while citing analysts. President (Barack) Obamas strategy of offering Pakistan a ...

WASHINGTON " The Obama administration is quietly signaling continued support for some major elements of its predecessor's approach to fighting Al Qaeda, according to analysts. In little-noticed confirmation testimony recently, Obama nominees endorsed continuing the C.I.A.'s programme of ...

NEW YORK - A 2004 pre-election operation aimed at disrupting potential terrorist plots focused on more than 2,000 immigrants from mostly Muslim countries, but most were found to have done nothing wrong, according to newly disclosed government data. Some of them, however, were deported for ...

NEW YORK " The New York Times endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for U.S. president Friday, saying he had "met challenge after challenge, growing as a leader and putting real flesh on his early promises of hope and change." The Times' endorsement coincided with another former senior Bush ...

NEW YORK - At the heals of some of President Asif Ali Zardari's statements that raised eyebrows during his recent U.S. visit, a leading American newspaper has questioned his claim that Oliver North, who is best known for his involvement in the 1986 Iran-Contra scandal, that North installed a ...

NEW YORK - The unrest in Indian occupied Kashmir has threatened to breathe new life into the "old and treacherous" dispute between India and Pakistan over Jammu and Kashmir, The New York Times reported Friday. The fresh impetus is provided by a new generation of young Kashmiris who ...

NEW YORK - The Afghan Taliban are demonstrating a tenacity that is raising alarm in Kabul, in Washington and in other NATO capitals over how a relatively ragtag insurgency has managed to keep the world's most powerful armies at bay, The New York Times reported Monday. The mounting toll inflicted ...

NEW YORK - Pakistan is in a leaderless drift four months after elections, according to a major U.S. newspaper which cited Western diplomats and military officials, Pakistani politicians and Afghan officials as being  increasingly worried that no one is really in charge. In a dispatch from ...