Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence

Pasha (left) is to retire this month
A rally in favour of the military and ISI after  the death of Osama bin Laden
Pakistan's chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry pressed the ISI lawyer over alleged abuses in Baluchistan
A rally by ISI supporters in Karachi last year
Taliban captives say Islamabad is providing strategic advice to the Taliban on fighting Western coalition troops
Taliban captives say Islamabad is providing strategic advice to the Taliban on fighting Western coalition troops
Pakistani paramilitary forces search for Taliban militants on the tribal belt bordering Afghanistan
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Pakistan axes police commander after attack

Pakistan axed the chief of police in southern Sindh province on Wednesday over a bomb attack that killed 50 people in a Shiite Muslim area of Karachi, following stinging criticism by the country's top judge.
 

Pakistani-American charged with aiding suicide bomber

A Pakistani-born US citizen in Portland, Oregon was charged Tuesday with helping one of three suicide bombers in a 2009 attack in Pakistan that killed 30 people and injured 300 more, the Justice Department said.
 

India arrests man for 'spying for Pakistan'

An Indian man has been arrested on charges of spying for Islamabad on military wargames staged on India's border with Pakistan, police said on Monday.
 

Pakistan holding 700 over terror links: lawyer

Pakistan's top law officer on Thursday disclosed for the first time that security agencies are holding at least 700 people indefinitely without trial in connection with the "war on terror".
 

Pakistan's ISI says terror suspects 'held on moral grounds'

A lawyer acting for Pakistani intelligence said Monday that a group of men detained for years on suspicion of terror attacks had been held on "moral grounds," admitting there was no evidence against them.
 

US man gets 14 years in jail for Danish newspaper plot

A Chicago businessman was sentenced to 14 years in jail for helping a Pakistani militant group plot an attack on a Danish newspaper which sparked outrage with cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
 

Pakistan marks five years since Bhutto murder

Vast crowds gathered on Thursday to mark the fifth anniversary of the assassination of former Pakistan premier Benazir Bhutto, and to witness her son launch his own political career.
 

Pakistan to mark five years since Bhutto murder

Pakistan marks the fifth anniversary of the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto on Thursday, with her son expected to launch his political career with a speech in the family's ancestral home town.
 

Pakistan to mark five years since Bhutto murder

Pakistan Thursday marks the fifth anniversary of the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, with her son expected to launch his political career with a speech in the family's ancestral home town.
 

Pakistan gallery defies dictators

It may not seem the most obvious setting, but a squat building overlooking a slum is home to one of Pakistan's leading galleries, which for 30 years has defied dictatorships and fundamentalists to champion cutting-edge art.
 

Surge in Pakistan violence raises fears for elections

A surge of violence in northwest Pakistan culminating in the assassination of a senior provincial minister has raised fears of a renewed Taliban campaign that could threaten national elections, analysts say.
 

India 'disappointed' at US immunity for Pakistan's ISI

India on Wednesday called a declaration that Pakistan's intelligence service and former chiefs enjoy immunity in a case related to the 2008 Mumbai attacks a "serious disappointment".
 

Senior Pakistan TV anchor escapes car bomb plot

A high-profile Pakistani journalist and television anchor escaped an assassination bid on Monday when police defused a bomb planted under his car in Islamabad, police and his channel said.
 

Bring Mumbai masterminds to justice: Indian press

Indian newspapers on Thursday called for the Pakistani masterminds behind the Mumbai attacks to be brought to justice as they welcomed the execution of sole surviving gunman Mohammed Kasab.
 

Mumbai attacks gunman Kasab executed

The sole surviving gunman from the 2008 Mumbai attacks was executed Wednesday to the relief of victims' families, nearly four years after 166 people died in a three-day rampage that traumatised India.
 

Doubts over UN Haqqani sanctions

The Haqqani militant network has become one of the greatest threats to US forces in Afghanistan, but there are doubts American and UN efforts to restrict it through sanctions will have much impact.
 

UN orders global sanctions against Haqqani network

The UN Security Council ordered global sanctions against the Haqqani militant network in Afghanistan, a move welcomed by Kabul but dismissed as meaningless by the Taliban.
 

UN orders global sanctions against Haqqani network

The UN Security Council ordered global sanctions against the Haqqani militant group in Afghanistan and its suicide attack mastermind.
 

Pakistan's former army, ISI chiefs face legal action

Pakistan's top court Friday recommended legal proceedings against a former army chief and head of intelligence for allegedly bankrolling politicians to keep the current ruling party from winning the 1990 election.
 

UN urges Pakistan to act on forced disappearances

The United Nations on Thursday urged Pakistan to take action to tackle the apparent impunity enjoyed by intelligence and law enforcement agencies in "enforced disappearance" cases.