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WASHINGTON, July 6 (UPI) -- The mojo at either end of the U.S.-Pakistan strategic relationship is hard to decipher but it holds the key to ending the 10-year war in Afghanistan.
After the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, UPI's Arnaud de Borchgrave had an exclusive interview with former Pakistani Gen. Hamid Gul. In light of the role Gul is given in the recently released secret U.S. military documents, UPI republishes de Borchgrave's interview with Gul. The item was originally published Sept. 26, 2001.
KABUL, Afghanistan, March 12 (UPI) -- The United States should talk face to face with the leader of the Taliban in Afghanistan if it wants to bring about peace, a former Pakistani general says.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- The infamous retired Pakistani spy chief general Hamid Gul is back on the air and in the headlines as propaganda chief for the Taliban insurgents. He now claims the Taliban is 88,000-strong and ready to take over when U.S. and NATO forces leave Afghanistan. With fewer than 100 al-Qaida terrorists still in Afghanistan, according to U.S. intelligence estimates, U.S. emissaries with bundles of serious cash, making hard-to-refuse deals with warlords, would be more bang for the buck than 30,000 more U.S. soldiers -- at $1 million per soldier per year.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- A former member of the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence served as a weapons consultant for al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden, a secret report reveals.
WASHINGTON, March 17 (UPI) -- Washington's Pakistan kibitzers will soon rue the day they squeezed President Pervez Musharraf to restore democracy. "Demonocracy" is what has now emerged, or an unholy alliance of longtime America-haters, including the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal coalition of six politico-religious extremist parties that lost the Feb. 18 elections, plus a gaggle of former generals and admirals against Musharraf, and friends and admirers of A.Q. Khan, the man who ran a nuclear Wal-Mart for the benefit of America's enemies (North Korea and Iran).
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- Suspects in the assassination of Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto number in the tens of thousands.
No sooner did Benazir Bhutto narrowly escape a two-man suicide bombing attack than she faced the next death threat of many more to come. Like paparazzi chasing down a celebrity, would-be assassins will be dogging her every step as she leads her Pakistan People’s Party in the coming election campaign to reclaim Pakistan’s prime ministership, from which she was deposed in 1990 and again in 1996.
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.
NEW DELHI, May 31 (UPI) -- A fresh outbreak of sectarian violence in Pakistan has alarmed India's security establishment.
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