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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- At least 12 Pakistani soldiers were killed early Saturday as the army moved into South Waziristan in an offensive against Taliban strongholds.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (UPI) -- Pakistan’s nuclear weapons installations have been attacked by Islamist extremists and foiled three times in less than two years, according to reliable intelligence reports. The details.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 29 (UPI) -- U.S. Gen. David Petraeus met with top Pakistani military officials to hear briefings on operations in the tribal areas along the border with Afghanistan.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 5 (UPI) -- Residents used a break in a curfew to flee their homes in Swat Valley in northwest Pakistan Friday, following evacuation orders, officials said.
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, June 5 (UPI) -- Pakistani Army Chief Ashfaq Kayani says the monthslong military offensive in the Swat Valley in the country's northwest has blunted Taliban resistance there.
MANIPAL, India, April 8 (UPI) -- At the risk of some repetition, it is worth mentioning two facts that seem unknown to policymakers such as U.S. envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke. The first is that the Asia of the 21st century is a tad different from that of the 19th. The second is that the ideology of the Pakistani army is based not on military needs and capabilities but on a vision of Mughal-era India and the conviction that someday that glorious epoch will return to the subcontinent.
MANIPAL, India, April 1 (UPI) -- After decades of denial, the U.S. military -- though not yet the State Department -- has begun to admit that the Pakistan military, a major "non-NATO ally," is the source of much of the capability of the Taliban thugs who are now sending NATO into a panic in Afghanistan.
MANIPAL, India, March 18 (UPI) -- Regular readers of this column will not have been surprised at recent developments in Pakistan, in which army chief Ashfaq Kayani enforced the surrender of the Pakistan Peoples Party-led government to the demands of the Pakistan Muslim League-N chief, Nawaz Sharif. The core purpose of Kayani's institution is to ensure the continued supremacy of Wahhabi Punjabis over all other groups in Pakistan, a mission that it has fulfilled thus far.
MANIPAL, India, March 10 (UPI) -- Say this for Pakistan's army -- its aftershave works. It seems to reduce to blobs of helpless jelly the critical faculties of U.S. "experts" on Pakistan within the CIA, the State Department and the Department of Defense.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- The U.S. chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff thanked Pakistani military and intelligence officials Monday for their efforts to fight terrorism.