A college principal in Pakistan has accused high commission officials of turning a blind eye to the scandal of false documents used to obtain visas British High Commission officials in Pakistan have been accused of a dereliction of duty by failing to investigate bogus students entering the UK with false documents by the principal of a prestigious college on Pakistan's border with Afghanistan....

I will go back out to Pakistan again later this year. In the meantime I have been talking to Pakistani friends and to journalists and others based in Pakistan, before trying to give a few considered thoughts on Hillary Clinton's extraordinary and calculated remarks on Wednesday about the "mortal threat" to the USA posed by Pakistan. The first and most obvious point is that, since Obama and Hi...

Asked if the Prime Minister was happy with the amount of cooperation there was from Pakistan on counter-terrorism, the PMS said that on the specifics of militants operating in Pakistan, he would not comment on speculation on intelligence operations, but as we had remarked before and as the Prime Minister commented when he visited Pakistan in December, we were aware that three quarters of the most ...

I was due to go to Pakistan today. Right now, I should be getting ready to land in Islamabad. Instead, I am at home writing this. On Monday morning our partners on the ground in Pakistan were still saying they...

Gordon is a mendacious twat: That at least 10 of the suspects were in the U.K. on student visas has raised questions about whether the Pakistan suspects had entered legally and were attending accredited schools. The British have said that Pakistan should do more to stop fraudulent visa applications. On Thursday, Mr. Brown pointed blame at Pakistan, saying, "Pakistan has got to do more to root out ...

Asif Asif Ali Zardari, Benazhir Bhutto's widower and head of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) has been elected as Pakistan's new president, which essentially gives the PPP control of the country. His election comes at a time when Pakistan is on the verge of falling apart.The economy is crumbling, and Pakistan faces increasing violence from the Islamists, who have a defacto control ...

In order to stop the violence in Pakistan’s Swat valley of the North West Frontier Province, or so the government of Pakistan hopes, a deal has been struck to turn over Swat to fudamentalist Sharia law.  Zardari still believes that the Taliban problem poses the greatest risk to the survival of Pakistan, and in this

U.S. relations with our 'ally' Pakistan took another ratchet downwards when Pakistan's foreign minister accused the U.S. of using Pakistan as a scapegoat after American head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen testified before Congress and accused Pakistan's ISI agency of supporting the al-Qaeda linked Haqqani network in planning and executing last week’s 22-hou...

The killing of 24 Pakistan soldiers in a Nato air strike has outraged Pakistan and thrown relations with the US into a new tailspin

Pakistan has refused India's demand that Pakistan hand over suspects implicated in the Mumbai terror assault. This came after Indian security released the names of the killers they caught and revealed that all of them came from Pakistan. Most of them were part of Lashkar-e-Taiba a terrorist group originally formed by Pakistan over the Kashmir conflict. They're officially banned by what p...