PAKISTAN
Pakistan condemns Bin Laden raid and US drone attacks Pakistan's parliamen...
Pakistan condemns Bin Laden raid and US drone attacks
Pakistan's parliament has called for a review of the country's relationship with the US over the American commando raid that killed Osama Bin Laden.
MPs said they "condemned the unilateral action... which constitutes a violation of Pakistan's sovereignty".
They unanimously passed a resolution urging a ban on Nato transit convoys unless the US ended drone attacks.
The session followed Friday's double suicide bombing that killed 80 people in north-western Pakistan.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13398281
Obama administration is divided over future of U.S.-Pakistan relationship
Two weeks after the death of Osama bin Laden, the Obama administration remains uncertain and divided over the future of its relationship with Pakistan, according to senior U.S. officials.
The discovery of the al-Qaeda leader in a city near Pakistan’s capital has pushed many in the administration beyond any willingness to tolerate Pakistan’s ambiguous connections with extremist groups. After years of ineffective American warnings, many U.S. officials are concluding that a change in policy is long overdue.
Pakistan condemns Bin Laden raid, threatens reprisals for drone strikes
Pakistan's parliament joins its intelligence chief in condemning the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden and threatens to prohibit NATO convoys into Afghanistan if Washington continues its drone strikes against militants.
At a marathon closed-door session, Pakistan's parliament Saturday joined the country's intelligence chief in strongly condemning the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden. The lawmakers also threatened to prohibit NATO from ferrying military supplies into Afghanistan if Washington continued its campaign of drone strikes against militants.
The head of Pakistan's powerful spy agency, Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI, vehemently defended his agency's track record for hunting down and capturing Al Qaeda operatives. Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha denounced Washington's decision to carry out the raid without informing Islamabad or seeking its permission, according to accounts from lawmakers that were leaked to Pakistani media.
Since the May 2 raid that killed the Al Qaeda leader, Pasha has been taking heat from Washington and critics at home who want to know if the country's intelligence community was harboring Bin Laden, or was grossly incompetent in not noticing his presence in the military city of Abbottabad for five years.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-pakistan-bin-laden-20110515,0,891057.story
Al-Qaeda in Pakistan is top threat, says US report Al-Qaeda's leadership in...
Al-Qaeda in Pakistan is top threat, says US report
Al-Qaeda's leadership in Pakistan and its affiliates in Africa remain the biggest threats to US and its interests abroad, a US government report says.
The annual terrorism report states that al-Qaeda encountered setbacks in 2009 but has proved to be "resilient and adaptable".
Iran was said to be the most active "state sponsor" of terrorism, as with previous years.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-10888165
Zardari claims win in terror row with UK
David Cameron backs new 'Marshall plan' to rebuild region devastated by war following talks with Pakistan's president
A triumphant President Asif Ali Zardari tonight claimed to have convinced David Cameron that Pakistan was doing all it could to stop militant jihadi groups "exporting terror" to Afghanistan and Britain, while appearing to rule out a new crackdown or any specific additional security measures.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/06/zardari-cameron-pakistan-talks
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UK PM defends Pakistan criticism
David Cameron, the British prime minister, has defended remarks in which he criticised Pakistan's record in dealing with "terrorist organisations".
Speaking at a joint news conference in New Delhi with Manmohan Singh, his Indian counterpart, both prime ministers called on Islamabad to crack down on armed groups operating from its territory.
"No-one is in any doubt, least of all the Pakistani government themselves, that there has been and still are terrorist organisations like the LeT [Lashkar-e-Taiba] and others that need to be cracked down on and eliminated," Cameron said.
The British prime minister had already angered Pakistan when he said on Wednesday that the country should not "promote the export of terror".
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/07/2010729153138599677.html
Zardari: International community is losing war against t...
Zardari: International community is losing war against the Taliban
'We have lost battle for hearts and minds,' warns Pakistani president ahead of meeting with David Cameron
The Pakistani president, Asif Ali Zardari, warned today that the international community was "losing the war against the Taliban", as he prepared to travel to the UK.
"The international community, to which Pakistan belongs, is losing the war against the Taliban," said Zardari. "This is above all because we have lost the battle to win hearts and minds."
The president said the Taliban had no chance of regaining power, but he warned: "Their grip is strengthening." He is due to meet Cameron at Chequers on Friday, and said he would speak to the prime minister about his remarks.
"The war against terrorism must unite us and not oppose us," said Zardari. "I will explain face to face that it is my country that is paying the highest price in human life for this war."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/aug/03/lord-tebbit-david-cameron-pakistan