A Maryland teen from Pakistan is in secret U.S. custody, accused of trying to help recruit terrorists for the Pennsylvania woman known as Colleen Jihad Jane LaRose, according to a source close to the family.
China's main state-owned companies will double their investments in the restless far western region of Xinjiang over the next five years to 991.6 billion yuan ($155 billion), a major Chinese newspaper reported on Thursday.
A Pakistani police official who had claimed that an abducted American national was freed in the city of Khushab, northwest of Lahore, retracted his statement within an hour and said he could not confirm or deny that the American was free.
An American development expert kidnapped 12 days ago in Lahore has been rescued, a Pakistani police official said Thursday.
In November 1970, the Bhola Cyclone smashed into East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) and West Bengal (India) and killed at least 500,000 people
A teenage suicide bomber blew himself up among worshippers offering Friday prayers at a mosque in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 47 people and wounding more than 70, a top government official said.
A suicide attack at a mosque near Afghan border in Pakistan killed 48 people attending Friday prayers and injured as many as 85.
A Muslim militant has urged American followers to assassinate talk show host David Letterman, saying his tongue deserved to be cut out, a U.S. intelligence monitoring group said on Wednesday.
Popular talk show host David Letterman received a death threat on an extremist networking site frequented by al Qaeda, a U.S. intelligence monitoring group said on Wednesday.
U.S. officials suspect that Pakistan allowed the Chinese military to see secret new U.S. technology -- the U.S. helicopter that crashed in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden -- despite explicit requests from the CIA not to.
Pakistan gave China access to the previously unknown U.S. "stealth" helicopter that crashed during the commando raid that killed Osama bin Laden in May despite explicit requests from the CIA not to, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.
Pakistan's restive Balochistan province was rocked by a bomb blast, and the persisting violence which left five people dead and injured dozens others.
An American has been kidnapped in Pakistan. Gunmen stormed his residence.
An American citizen was kidnapped from his residence in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore on Saturday, police said.
A U.S. citizen was kidnapped from his home in Pakistab's eastern city of Lahore early Saturday by a group of Armed men.
J.E. Warner, an American national working in Pakistan on a development project, was abducted from his Islamabad residence on Saturday.
Contradicting earlier official reports, the top American commander in Afghanistan told reporters that the 17 Navy SEALs killed alongside 13 other U.S. troops and eight Afghan commandos were not on a rescue mission, The Daily reported. Instead, their helicopter came under fire after they had been called in to chase fleeing Taliban fighters.
He faces the death penalty if convicted.
The attacks are openly denounced by Pakistani military and political leaders.
Secret exploratory peace talks between the United States and the Taliban have reportedly crumbled after details of the negotiations were leaked.
Late last Friday night, special forces troops from the NATO-led coalition launched an operation to capture a Taliban leader in an inaccessible valley southwest of Kabul.
An American spy novelist is disputing the details of the raid that took down the world's "Most Wanted" terrorist leader Osama bin Laden
