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A 2000 photograph of Maulana Masood Azhar, leader of the Jaish-e-Mohammed and one of those released in 1999 by the Indian government following a plane hijack.
AP A 2000 photograph of Maulana Masood Azhar, leader of the Jaish-e-Mohammed and one of those released in 1999 by the Indian government following a plane hijack.

China’s ‘hold’ stopped designation of LeT, Jaish leaders

The U.S. State Department was of the view that China's hold on listing the three terrorists was done at the behest of Pakistan. »

Related: 221726: Indian information inadequate to warrant listing of three Pakistan-based individuals
Related: 244326: China requested to drop UN 1267 hold on Makki, Cheema and Azhar Alvi

A diplomatic cable sent under the name of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton states that despite public disavowals, “some officials of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI) continue to maintain ties with a wide array of extremist organizations.” File Photo

State Department cable cited ISI links with militants

The cable was sent to five U.S. Embassies, including that of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. »      1 comment

Related: 242073: Action request for senior level engagement on terrorism finance

EXPENSIVE BUY: Washington believed the aircraft could serve the purpose of diverting Pakistan's attention from 'the nuclear option' and in the event of an India-Pakistan war, give the U.S. a few days to mediate and prevent nuclear conflict. A file photograph of an F-16 in Italy.

Behind the Pakistan F-16 deal, a tale of many wheels

The sale by the United States of F-16 military aircraft to Pakistan, announced in 2005, was celebrated as a sign of deepening strategic ties between Islamabad and the Bush administration in Washington. »      20 comments

Related: 151227: Pakistan's F-16 program — at risk of failure?
Related: 197576: Saving the F-16 program

Supporters of Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan in Karachi celebrate his February 2007 release from virtual house arrest.

A.Q. Khan’s ‘secret agreement’

Cable reveals the conditions brokered by a Pakistan court between him and the government for his freedom »      1 comment

Related: 190946: Interior Secretary provides terms of A.Q. Khan's modified detention
Related: Pakistan court maintains curbs on AQ Khan

Pakistan's military officers, seen through American eyes

The cable shows that anti-American biases run deep in the military, despite the lavish bankrolling by the U.S. »      7 comments

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Benazir Bhutto was killed in a suicide bomb attack on December 27, 2007, as she left an election rally in Rawalpindi. In this file photo, the site of the blast.
CHENNAI, May 21, 2011

Benazir asked U.S. for security, was turned away

Two months before her assassination in December 2007, Benazir Bhutto's forebodings about her violent end and her suspicions that elements in the Musharraf regime were out to eliminate her, l... »
When there is a civilian government in Pakistan, pragmatism dictates that New Delhi factor into its policy the inclinations of the military and the Inter-Services Intelligence.
NEW DELHI, May 21, 2011

‘Many Pakistans, so we need many Pakistan policies'

‘India does not want to play into the hands of terrorists by shunning dialogue.' »
CHENNAI, May 21, 2011

Terror threats keep me awake, Manmohan Singh told U.S. official

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told a visiting United States official in 2009 that he “did not sleep well at night” knowing there were threats of more terror attacks in India afte... »
CHENNAI, May 19, 2011

U.S. feared LeT attack in India in mid-2009; warned Pakistan

U.S. feared another LeT attack in India in mid-2009, and sought Pakistan's help to ‘disrupt and prevent' it »
A damaged U.N. vehicle is seen at the site of a blast in Kabul, Afghanistan on Oct. 8, 2009. A powerful explosion rocked the center of Afghanistan's capital near the Interior Ministry and the Indian Embassy.
CHENNAI, May 19, 2011

‘We have some contacts with bad guys and perhaps one of them did it'

Pakistan's National Security Adviser to the Prime Minister, Mahmud Ali Durrani, on the 2008 bombing of the Indian Embassy in Kabul »
Then Minister for External Affairs Pranab Mukherjee with U.S. special envoy Richard Holbrooke (left) in this 2009 photograph. New Delhi sent out an unequivocal message to Washington that any move to include India in Holbrooke's brief would be
CHENNAI, May 21, 2011

How India kept Kashmir out of U.S. Af-Pak envoy's brief

Weeks before the Obama administration appointed Richard Holbrooke as the Special Representative to Pakistan and Afghanistan, New Delhi sent an unequivocal message to the United States that a... »
SINGING A DIFFERENT TUNE: As Pakistan's Foreign Minister from April 2008 to February 2011, Shah Mahmood Qureshi - seen in this file picture with External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna (left) - was at first conciliatory on Kashmir but later adopted a more rigid stand on this issue.
NEW DELHI, May 21, 2011

Once upon a time, Qureshi on Kashmir

Days after he was designated the Foreign Minister of Pakistan, Shah Mahmood Qureshi told U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard A. Boucher that India-Pakistan relations could not be held... »
NEW DELHI, May 21, 2011

U.S. confident of safety of nuclear weapons, despite al-Qaeda presence

A good 15 months before it killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, the United States was sure that al-Qaeda retained its presence in that country and was plotting “new attacks” again... »
CHENNAI, May 19, 2011

‘If Mumbai attack suspects in Pakistan are freed, India is at fault'

‘If Mumbai attack suspects arrested in Pakistan are freed, India is at fault' »
The Chief Minister of Pakistan's Punjab province and the federal Interior Minister blamed each other for jeopardising appeals filed by the government before the Supreme Court against the June 2009 Lahore High Court order releasing Hafiz Saeed from house arrest. File Photo
CHENNAI, May 19, 2011

It was Shahbaz vs. Malik in court, while Hafiz Saeed walked free

The Chief Minister of Pakistan's Punjab province and the federal Interior Minister blamed each other for jeopardising appeals filed by the government before the Supreme Court against the Jun... »
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