(AFX UK Focus) 2009-09-23 06:53 Q+A-What prospects for Pakistan’s President Zardari? (Interactive Investor)
(For full coverage of Pakistan, click on Sept 23 (Reuters) – Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari will meet his country’s backers, including U.S. President Barack Obama, at a “Friends of Pakistan” meeting in New York on Thursday. Zardari rose to power after his wife, former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, was assassinated in late 2007. He faces a range of problems from Islamist militancy to the …
Pakistan pounds tribal regions (UPI)
ISTANBUL, Pakistan, Sept. 22 (UPI) — Pakistani gunships attacked Taliban strongholds in a major military operation Tuesday in South Waziristan, killing more than two dozen militants.
Girls school attacked in troubled NW Pakistan (The World)
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) Suspected Islamist militants blew up a girls school close to the main city in northwestern Pakistan today, police said. The school was empty at the time of the blast and no one was injured.
Pakistan, Taliban still together: India (The Times of India)
New Delhi has charged that Islamabad’s disruptive role in the Taliban insurgency alongwith aid for the Afghan Taliban provided by Pakistan’s spy agency has complicated the military situation in Afghanistan, with India’s foreign minister asserting “they are still together”.
Q+A-What prospects for Pakistan’s President Zardari? (AlertNet)
Source: Reuters (For full coverage of Pakistan, click on [ID:nAFPAK] Sept 23 (Reuters) – Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari will meet his country’s backers, including U.S. President Barack Obama, at a ” …
Girls School Blown Up By Militants In Pakistan (The Huffington Post)
People walk amongst mangled vehicles and destroyed buildings after a suicide bombing in Kohat, 65 kilometers (40 milies) from Peshawar, Pakistan on Friday, Sept. 18, 2009. A suicide car bomb destroyed a two-story hotel and several shops in a northwestern Pakistani town on Friday, killing at least 25 people in an apparent attack on the country’s Shiite community, police and a government official …
