Leaving Afghanistan by 2015 Requires Shipping a Container Every 7 Minutes
How could NATO get supplies out of Afghanistan in time for the drawdown? A shipping container worth of gear sent every seven minutes, all day, every day.
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Despite violence from the Taliban, citizens in Pakistan turned out in huge numbers on Saturday to vote in the country's historic first ever democratic elections.
How could NATO get supplies out of Afghanistan in time for the drawdown? A shipping container worth of gear sent every seven minutes, all day, every day.
In any other country, we'd wager that the late Abdus Salam would be a national hero: He's a Nobel laureate in physics and laid the groundwork for the biggest physics discovery in the past 30 years--the Higgs boson. That isn't the case in Pakistan, where he's been wiped from textbooks and history for not being fundamentalist enough.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton saved the United States and its allies upwards of $100 million a month with one little word: "Sorry."
According to his press over the years, if there was a Renaissance man among al Qaeda's senior leadership, it was Abu Yahya al-Libi, the terror network's deputy leader who was killed by a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan on Monday.
ProPublica's Justin Elliott tries to lay out exactly what's known (not much) about President Obama's policy on drone strikes, what's not (a lot), and what the White House is saying in response to a New York Times report.
American drones have killed 27 people in northern Pakistan over the last three days as the unmanned aerial attacks show no signs of slowing down.
The jailed Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA find Osama bin Laden is in quite the bind: if he stays inside his Peshawar prison, his fellow inmates won't hesitate to take him out, if he gets released, the Taliban will assassinate him.
Just when you thought Pakistan's shady legal system couldn't get any shadier, the treason case against Shakil Afridi, the Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA find Osama bin Laden, takes a wild turn.
He may have helped find the world's number one terrorist, but Pakistani doctor Jamil Afridi has been smeared, tortured, starved and improperly prosecuted in the weeks and months following his arrest, according to a handful of new reports.
The Pakistani press does not share the outrage of U.S. lawmakers at the 33-year prison sentence of the doctor who helped the CIA locate Osama bin Laden. In fact, Dr. Shakil Afridi, charged with running a fake vaccination clinic to collect bin Laden's DNA, should be glad he wasn't executed according to some Pakistani dailies.
One thing the United States can do to persuade Pakistan to rethink imprisoning a doctor who helped find Osama Bin Laden is to issue strongly worded statements; another is to cut military aid.
You'd think helping find one of the world's most wanted terrorists and America's number one enemy would make you a hero. In Pakistan, those actions make you a treasonous criminal.
The much-hyped NATO Summit in Chicago this weekend wasn't a complete boondoggle. The alliance forged a formal agreement on withdrawing from Afghanistan, but elsewhere, a number of world leaders left the Windy City without much to say for their stay.
The NATO summit in Chicago started on Sunday, and while the focus of the summit is supposed to be on withdrawing troops from Afghanistan, a rift between the U.S. and Pakistan is taking center stage.
The government in Pakistan banned Twitter for promoting a "blasphemous" cartoon contest on Facebook through Twitter on Sunday.
Original document buffs, today is your lucky day: The U.S. government has finally released a trove of 17 documents declassified after the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbotabad, and you can download them in full from the Combatting Terrorism Center.
In news that's probably going to make you want to shake your head and sigh, it seems Pakistani government officials, still sore from the Osama bin Laden raid, have become so paranoid about spies that they're cracking down on international aid--to the detriment of their people.
The tactic credited with unraveling John Kerry's presidential campaign is being re-tooled for President Obama.
It's starting to make sense why the Obama administration rarely acknowledges its secret drone program: When it does it, it reveals some unreconcilable contradictions.
Less than a week after India flexed its nuclear muscles, Pakistan test-fired a new ballistic missile just to let everyone know that its own destructive weapons haven't gone anywhere.
Reports are still breaking and information on possible survivors is scant, but CNN is reporting that that an airplane carrying 127 people has crashed near an airport in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
An attack on a prison in northwest Pakistan led to the escape of 384 prisoners, including terrorist and militant fighters, some of whom had been given death sentences.
The narrative of the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound is getting another revamp, and this time, bin Laden's youngest wife doesn't get shot in the leg.
The U.S. government has offered a $10 million reward for Hafiz Saeed, the man believed to be the "mastermind" of the 2008 terrorist attack on Mumbai that killed 166 people.
Osama bin Laden's three widows and two daughters have all been sentenced to 45 days of house arrest for living in Pakistan illegally and will likely be deported.
In a major embarrassment for U.S. and Pakistani intelligence officials, new details reveal that the world's most-wanted terrorist wasn't exactly keeping a low-profile in the aftermath of 9/11.
Osama bin Laden may be dead and his Abbottabad compound destroyed but his wives are made-to-be reality TV stars.
On Thursday Pakistan announced it would charge Osama bin Laden's three widows with with entering the country illegally, but from a new report by a retired Pakistani general, it sounds like they were already in a sort of prison living with their late husband.
A wave of early-morning bombings and attacks by gunmen all across Iraq have killed more than 50 people and injured well over one hundred.
Pakistan has never forgiven former president Pervez Musharraf for the death of former prime minister, Benazir Bhutto, and now it plans to ask Interpol to arrest him for failing to protect her from the deadly 2007 suicide attack that took her life.
The high-profile legal battle over the disclosure of Osama bin Laden's death photos is beginning to focus on images of the terrorist leader's burial in the North Arabian Sea.
The C.I.A.'s policy of silence around its drone program has really gotten in the agency's way as it tries to defend against a scathing new investigative report that found U.S. drones target rescuers and funerals in Pakistan.
The prime minister of Pakistan had quite the scare last October, and he's now ready to talk about it.
The BBC says that a leaked NATO report "fully exposes" the intimate relationship between the Taliban and Pakistan's internal security services.
The American public may finally bear witness to some, but probably not all, of the postmortem images of Osama bin Laden taken on the night he was killed in Pakistan, according to legal experts.
The Pentagon is downplaying remarks Defense Secretary Leon Panetta made Sunday on 60 Minutes that Pakistani officials knew about the location of Osama bin Laden's hideout prior to the U.S. raid in Abbottabad in May.
An anonymous official in Pakistan said the country may allow U.S. military trainers back into the country this spring, but won't ever allow drones to operate there again, reports Fox News.
With another warning of a military coup, this time a call this week to British diplomats, Pakistan's Yousuf Reza Gilani is quickly becoming the "Prime Minister Who Cried Coup", when he should really be more worried about the country's Supreme Court.
In the three days since the United States resumed drone strikes in Pakistan after a two-month hiatus, it's carried out two attacks, killing 10 people and indicating the tactic of targeting terrorists with drones is fully back in favor with U.S. commanders.
Pakistan's Prime Minister, Yusuf Raza Gilani has fired the country's defense secretary on Wednesday, a bold move considering Gilani was warning of a military coup less than a month ago.
The former Prime Minister will return from overseas despite charges he helped assassinate Benazir Bhutto, and amid escalating tensions between government and military leaders.
A new militant group called the Khorasan Mujahedin has sprung up in the tribal areas of Pakistan, kidnapping and murdering people it believes are helping the U.S. drones that routinely target Al Qaeda and Taliban commanders.
Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari gave a speech today on the fourth anniversary of the assassination of his wife, Benazir Bhutto, to defend democracy, criticize the country's military and courts, and try to regain support amid recent scandals.
In one of the more disturbing things you'll hear from Pakistani leaders today, Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani has warned that a military coup is in the works.
An investigation into a NATO airstrike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers last month, lays plenty of blame on both sides of the incident, in a verdict that is unlikely to end the ongoing dispute.
Skepticism abounds over whether Congress' freezing over $700 million in aid to Pakistan will have any real effect in stopping the rampant bomb-building on both sides of its borders.
Asif Ali Zardari is a Dubai hospital after reportedly suffering a heart attack this week, leading to wild speculation about his true condition and questions about who is really in charge in Pakistan right now.
Following the publicized lack of an Obama apology for the airstrikes which ended in the friendly-fire death of 24 Pakistani soldiers, the U.S. is vacating a drone base in Shamsi base in Pakistan--a move that sounds way more serious than it actually is.
U.S. officials are claiming that Pakistan had given their approval for the American airstrikes that accidentally killed 24 Pakistan soldiers on Saturday, adding to the messy aftermath and political posturing of this friendly-fire tragedy.
The White House has decided that President Obama will not apologize to Pakistan for the deaths of two dozen soldiers in NATO airstrikes last week, which means Pakistan will have to settle for a sorry from Hillary Clinton instead.
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