Today’s leaked NATO report on ‘the state of the Taliban’ has generated the predictable responses: excessive attempts by the media to hype it up, and excessive attempts by NATO and the Pakistani government to play it down. What is its true significance? It’s a good scoop, but there is little or nothing in it which really counts as ‘news’ to anyone who has been fo...

A US investigation says that both American and Pakistani forces were responsible for air strikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers last month

The government says it will challenge a ruling that the UK must act to secure the release of a Pakistani man held without charge by the US in Afghanistan.

Pakistan has given the US an ultimatum to vacate an air base used for drone attacks and shut off the supply routes for NATO forces in Afghanistan in retaliation for what it claims was an unprovoked air attack on Pakistani troops that reportedly killed as many as 28 soldiers. NATO sources claim that a joint US-Afghan force operating in the Afghan frontier province of Kunar was the first to come und...

The publication by a Pakistani newspaper of a memo seeking US help to rein in the military has intensified the furore

A recent British Election Survey commissioned by the Runnymede Trust asked if the Government should make the effort to improve equal opportunities. The results of those in agreement were roughly as follows: Indians 65%, Pakistani 71%, Black Caribbean 74% and Black African 75% — but in the case of the white majority, only 19% agreed.

The reported discovery of a previously unknown complex in Syria has raised UN suspicions that Damascus collaborated with Abdul Qadeer Khan, the architect of Pakistan's nuclear bomb project, to obtain nuclear technology for a covert weapons programme.

Judging from some of the signs. chants and videos that have come from the #OWS demonstrations, Pakistani Vice Chancellor Mujahid Kamran might be a great addition to the movement! First, from the article, "Some in the OWS movement, like the Nazis before them, say "Blame the Jews'!" "... Terms and phrases such as Zionists, cultural elites, bank and Wall Street CEO's who control the global ...

Hillary Clinton, US secretary of state, tells Pakistan to take decisive action against the Haqqani network, a Pakistan-based militant group the US suspects of receiving support from the Pakistani military

The conference motion “Tackling Violence Against Women” rightly highlighted the fact that only 10% of local authorities offer dedicated services for Black and Ethnic Minority Women many of whom are subjected to specific forms of violence such as female mutilation and forced marriage. In areas like Rochdale with a large Pakistani/Kashmiri and Bangladeshi community, the