WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Benazir Bhutto was assassinated on orders of lower- and middle-level officers of the Pakistani army and air force ,according to various intelligence sources, including members of India's counterintelligence service.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- The rhetoric of U.S. and Arab officials over their divergent policies toward Iran has become curiously more heated since the release last week of the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran's nuclear ambitions.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- The last visit by a Russian leader to Iran was by Joseph Stalin in December 1943 for a secret summit with Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. The British leader wanted the next major allied invasion to target Europe’s soft underbelly in the Balkans. The Soviet dictator and the U.S. president outvoted him. Thus, the decision was reached to make the invasion of France, which took place seven months later in 1944, the next geostrategic priority. This second summit, 64 years later, could also prove momentous -- down the road.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- Pakistani Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri has said the world should help his country get civilian nuclear technology.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 (UPI) -- Some 80,000 Pakistani soldiers who man the non-existent border between the Federally Administered Tribal Areas and the Afghan border have stood down, but no one knows who gave the order or whether they are even taking orders. Taliban and al-Qaida terrorist training camps are up and running again with the acquiescence -- or impotence -- of the Pakistani army. That’s the word by satellite phone from this reporter’s sources in Miranshah and Wana, the capitals of North and South Waziristan.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- Pakistan has described claims in a recent book on its nuclear program as a “pack of lies,” a report said Tuesday.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- Pressuring a weakened strategic ally by reopening old wounds carries a certain amount of risk. But in the case of Pakistan, President Pervez Musharraf's current domestic political troubles provide the United States with an opportunity to put something back on the table that should never have been taken off.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- Pakistan has reportedly warned the recent U.S.-India civil nuclear deal could set off an arms race and upset the subcontinent's strategic balance.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 2 (UPI) -- Pakistan says there's been no change in the status of its disgraced nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan, who has been under virtual house arrest since 2004.