RICHARD BOUCHER TESTIFIES ON PAKISTAN AND AFGANISTAN IN WASHINGTON
Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher testifies before a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on Pakistan and Afghanistan, in Washington on July 12, 2007. (UPI Photo/Kevin Dietsch)
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A judge in Chesapeake, Va., says felony charges will be considered by a grand jury for Richard Boucher, who was captured recently after 27 years on the run.
A Virginia prison fugitive has been apprehended in Georgia after 27 years on the run, officials said Wednesday.
India's prime minister said unnamed Pakistani agencies supported militants who attacked Mumbai, comments Pakistani officials call "unfortunate."
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher was in Pakistan Monday to discuss terrorism issues after the Mumbai, India, attacks, a senior diplomat said.
Gen. David Petraeus, the head of the U.S. Central Command, has arrived in Pakistan to meet with government and military officials.
Next month the U.S.-led campaign in Afghanistan enters its eighth year. Despite the country's substantial energy and mineralogical reserves, little has been done to develop them, which might have provided an increased standard of living for the population. Foreign aid has largely bypassed the majority of the country's inhabitants, most of whom live on less than $2 a day. As a result, the rising insurgency has been able to exploit the gap between Western rhetoric and actual aid to increase its influence.
German and U.S. researchers suggest dry airways may be the culprit in a number of lung diseases.
Nawaz Sharif, a key figure in Pakistan's new coalition government, says the country should not become a killing field while fighting extremism.
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher will review the status of the U.S.-India civil nuclear deal on his India visit, a report said Sunday.
The most fascinating energy development of the last 14 months has been the furious, if covert, struggle involving Russia, China and the United States to develop Turkmenistan's vast natural gas deposits since the death of Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov in December 2006.
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