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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari's government could do a great deal with the windfall $7.5 billion to fix the country's crippled economy, much of whose meager resources are being swallowed to finance the fight against the escalating militant violence.
KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 22 (UPI) -- As Afghan President Hamid Karzai sought to assure critics about the integrity of last month's elections -- which an unofficial count showed he won -- Mullah Mohammed Omar gave a different assessment that was delivered to the people with the familiar Taliban touch.
WASHINGTON, July 14 (UPI) -- An adviser on South Asia to three U.S. presidents warns about the threat of a jihadist victory in Pakistan “as a real possibility in the foreseeable future.” It would also give terrorists a nuclear capability.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 10 (UPI) -- Pakistan's military has the ability to broker cease-fire negotiations between Taliban leaders in Afghanistan and the United States, a military spokesman says.
Obama describes new way forward in Afghanistan; 10th Mountain Division test for Afghan effort; Russia holds major Afghan conference; June pullout date in Iraq uncertain; Northern Iraq a concern, Odierno says; Bureaucracy hampers Mosul reconstruction
KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Sunday he would guarantee security for Mullah Mohammed Omar if the Taliban leader takes part in peace talks.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- The next U.S. president needs to undertake an urgent, hard-headed reassessment of the emerging political realities in Afghanistan and urgently address local concerns, say experts living on the ground. Otherwise the incoming administration may be quickly overtaken by shifting realities.
WASHINGTON, March 28 (UPI) -- "I don't care if it takes another 10 or 20 years, but we cannot allow Afghanistan to fail." So spoke Frank Carlucci, former U.S. defense secretary and national security adviser, at the Council on Foreign Relations. Failure, said Carlucci, would break the Atlantic Alliance and turn the world stage over to the next two global heavy hitters -- China and Russia.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 29 (UPI) -- A new triumvirate is gradually displacing the special relationship that President Bush established with Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- The reported killing of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto shows the continued strength of Islamists and paralyzes Pakistan's political system, at least in the short term.
