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  • ** FILE ** Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud (right) holds a rocket launcher with his comrades in Sararogha in the Pakistani tribal area of South Waziristan, along the Afghanistan border, in October 2009. (AP Photo/Ishtiaq Mehsud, File)

    Militants decry attacks against Pakistani military

    Pakistan's leading militants have called on fighters to honor an agreement not to attack the Pakistani military in the most important sanctuary for the Taliban and al Qaeda along the Afghan border.

  • ** FILE ** In this Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012, photo provided by the U.S. Navy, Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta, left, re-enlists 21 sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, at sea. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, Petty Officer 3rd Class Scott Pittman)

    Panetta cites key intelligence on bin Laden raid

    Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is acknowledging publicly for the first time that a Pakistani doctor provided key information to the U.S. in advance of the successful Navy SEAL assault on Osama bin Laden's compound last May.

  • Pakistani media gather Monday in Islamabad, where a hearing of a judicial commission is in session. The Supreme Court set up the panel to investigate a secret-memo scandal in response to a petition filed by a group of opposition politicians. Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani must appear Thursday to explain his refusal to cooperate in the probe. (Associated Press)

    Pakistani court raps prime minister

    Pakistan's government faced a constitutional threat Monday from the Supreme Court, which began contempt proceedings against the prime minister for failing to reopen a corruption investigation against the president.

  • ** FILE ** In this Dec. 22, 2011, file photo released by Press Information Department, Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, right, talks with Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari during their meeting at President House in Islamabad, Pakistan. (AP Photo/Press Information Department, HO, File)

    Pakistan's P.M. appeals for support in standoff

    Pakistan's prime minister appealed for support Friday from the country's parliament in a standoff between his beleaguered government and the armed forces, saying lawmakers had to choose between "democracy and dictatorship."

  • World Briefs

    Armed clashes erupted in Syria Sunday, killing at least 14 civilians and six government troops in central and northern Syria, activists said in the latest sign that the nation's uprising may be deteriorating into civil war.

  • ** FILE ** Taliban commander Maulvi Faqir Mohammed, who is known to be deputy chief of the Pakistani Taliban, is seen in Pakistan's tribal area of Bajur in an undated photo. (AP Photo/Anwarullah Khan, File)

    Pakistani Taliban spokesman denies peace talks

  • Briefly

    An American who translated a banned biography of Thailand's king and posted the content online while living in Colorado was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in a Thai prison Thursday for defaming the country's royal family.

  • Afghans shout slogans during a funeral for a victim of Tuesday's suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)

    Karzai says Kabul attack came from Pakistan

    Afghan President Hamid Karzai confronted Pakistan on Wednesday, saying a militant group based there was behind a suicide bombing at a Shiite shrine in Kabul that killed 56 people during commemorations of a holy day.

  • U.S. rerouting some Afghan war supplies

    The U.S. military is working around a Pakistani government border blockade by shipping small amounts of some supplies for the Afghan war through other countries, U.S. defense officials said.

  • ** FILE ** Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud is pictured in Sararogha in the Pakistani tribal area of South Waziristan along the Afghanistan border in October 2009. (AP Photo/Ishtiaq Mehsud, File)

    Pakistani Taliban splintering into factions

  • Embassy Row

    Pakistan's ambassador to the United States resigned Tuesday in a widening scandal over a secret letter to a top U.S. military official, fears of a military coup in Pakistan and accusations between the diplomat and a businessman who claims they plotted to deliver the message to the Pentagon.

  • Pakistani security officials visit the site of a suicide explosion in Karachi, Pakistan, on Nov. 16, 2011. Three terrorists and two police officers were killed in the encounter, police said. (Associated Press)

    Suspected U.S. missiles kill 8 in northwest Pakistan

    Suspected U.S. drones fired four missiles at a compound in Pakistan's rugged tribal region near the Afghan border on Thursday, killing eight alleged militants and wounding two others in the third such strike in as many days, Pakistani intelligence officials said.

  • Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said in Washington on Wdnesday that he is convinced that authorities did not know Osama bin Laden was living among them. (Associated Press)

    Musharraf: U.S. merits bin Laden details

    Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said Wednesday that Islamabad needs to do a better job of explaining to the U.S. why Osama bin Laden was found in the country, adding that he remains convinced that Pakistani authorities were unaware of his presence.

  • Pakistani army soldiers salute the coffins of their colleagues killed in a gun battle with militants during a funeral prayer in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Oct. 21, 2011. Militants attacked a group of paramilitary soldiers conducting a search operation in Pakistan's Khyber tribal area the previous night, sparking fighting that killed three soldiers and 34 militants, said Farooq Khan, a senior government official in the area. (Associated Press)

    Militants kill 3 in raid on Pakistan elder's home

    More than 30 militants armed with rockets and machine guns attacked a prominent pro-government tribal elder's house in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing three members of his family, a government official said.

  • Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is greeted by Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul on Thursday. She stressed the U.S. commitment to the Afghan peace process. (Associated Press)

    Clinton: Pakistan must boost anti-terror fight

    Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday demanded that Pakistan step up the fight against terrorists within its borders, delivering a blunt message that Pakistanis "must be part of the solution" to the ongoing conflict in neighboring Afghanistan.

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  • Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai lives in this house in Fairfax. He is charged with participating in a long-term conspiracy to secretly act as an agent of the Pakistani government in the U.S. without disclosing that affiliation, as required by the federal Foreign Agents Registration Act. He is executive director of the Kashmiri American Council. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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