Reporting from Peshawar and Islamabad, Pakistan — At least 65 people were killed Friday afternoon in a suicide bomb attack on a northwest Pakistan mosque filled with worshippers, another in a series of terror strikes on mosques and shrines across the country. (more)
KALAM, Pakistan (AP) — U.S. Army choppers flew their first relief missions in Pakistan’s flood-ravaged northwest Thursday, airlifting hundreds of stranded people to safety from a devastated tourist town and distributing emergency aid. (more)
SWAT VALLEY, Pakistan (AP) — The painting is disturbing: raindrops shaped like bullets and branches intended to look like blood-soaked necks. The artist was a boy recruited by the Taliban to help kill Pakistani soldiers. (more)
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A regional minister says the death toll in floods that have lashed Pakistan has risen above 800. (more)
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistanis lashed out Friday at the U.S., blaming its alliance with their government and its presence in Afghanistan for spurring two suicide bombers to kill 42 people at the country’s most important Sufi shrine. (more)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — An American construction worker detained in Pakistan while on a solo mission to kill Osama bin Laden claimed yesterday that he was obeying an order from God to avenge the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, said Pakistani security officials. (more)
The U.S. military is reviewing options for a unilateral strike in Pakistan in the event that a successful attack on American soil is traced to the country’s tribal areas, according to senior military officials. (more)
Despite whodunit headlines and a couple wild guesses, there is mounting evidence that the Times Square bomber had one intention the night he dropped his Pathfinder in the path of thousands of New York City tourists: a deadly Jihad. (more)
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Even the threat of death cannot deter one 30-year-old entrepreneur here from his appointed rounds supplying the Pakistani elite with expensive contraband Scotch. (more)
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men have bamboozled the public again. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, the CIA, the Pentagon, and the Pakistanis told you Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar was captured, or seized, or arrested. Not a shot fired. (more)
Last week the White House listed 14 countries whose nationals were deemed dangerous enough to require extra scrutiny when they travel to and within the United States. Flying in America with a Nigerian or Yemeni passport has never been easy, and now thanks to Umar Abdulmutallab, Nigerians and Yemenis are supposed to put up with a crotch-intensive frisking as well. (more)
