The BBC's Aleem Maqbool: "Police say it was one of his own security force that shot him" The influential governor of Pakistan's Punjab province, Salman Taseer, has died after being shot by one of his bodyguards in the capital, Islamabad. Mr Taseer, a senior member of the Pakistan People's Party, was shot when getting into his car at a market. Interior Minister Rehman Malik said the guard had told
The governor of Pakistan's wealthiest province has been killed by one of his own bodyguards, apparently because he had spoken out against the country's controversial blasphemy laws. In the most high-profile political assassination since the murder of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in December 2007, Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer was shot nine times at Kohsar market, an upmarket shopping area
WASHINGTON � Senior American military commanders in Afghanistan are pushing for an expanded campaign of Special Operations ground raids across the border into Pakistan’s tribal areas, a risky strategy reflecting the growing frustration with Pakistan’s efforts to root out militants there. The proposal, described by American officials in Washington and Afghanistan, would escalate military activities
Pakistani villagers protesting last Thursday against U.S. drone strikes.Credit...B.K.Bangash/Associated Press WASHINGTON � The Central Intelligence Agency’s top clandestine officer in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, was removed from the country on Thursday amid an escalating war of recriminations between American and Pakistani spies, with some American officials convinced that the officer’s cover w
Nearly 60 people have been killed in a series of attacks by US drones in the past 24 hours in Pakistan's Khyber tribal district, officials say. At least 50 died in three unmanned air strikes in the Tirah Valley, a day after seven others were killed nearby. Security officials say all the dead in the attacks are militants - a claim that cannot be independently confirmed. Meanwhile, the CIA has withd
The officer, named in Pakistan as Jonathan Banks, left the country yesterday, after a tribesman publicly accused him of being responsible for the death of his brother and son in a CIA drone strike in December 2009. Karim Khan, a journalist from North Waziristan, called for Banks to be charged with murder and executed. In a rare move, the CIA called Banks home yesterday, citing "security concerns"
Special Representative Holbrooke, in New York.Photograph by Brigitte Lacombe A week after being elected President, Barack Obama summoned Richard Holbrooke to his transition headquarters, at the Hilton Hotel in Chicago. To some members of Obama’s staff, the invitation was surprising: Obama and Holbrooke hardly knew each other, and Holbrooke had firmly supported Hillary Clinton during the primaries.
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Pakistan says there have been no incidents involving its fissile material US and UK diplomats feared Pakistan's nuclear material could fall into the hands of terrorists, the latest leaked classified US diplomatic cables reveal. The documents, released by Wikileaks, warn that Pakistan is rapidly building its nuclear stockpile despite the country's growing instability. There is also scepticism about
Nicolas Sarkozy was today urged to break his silence over the most potentially damaging corruption scandal of his career: an inquiry into whether he authorised illegal kickbacks from arms sales to Pakistan to fund a political campaign. L'affaire Karachi is the most explosive corruption investigation in recent French history and the biggest scandal to personally threaten Sarkozy. The potent saga of
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