Chris Allbritton

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After a very public falling out between Pakistan and the Pentagon, the U.S. military's new leaders are unlikely to replicate the close bond that the outgoing U.S. military boss had with his Pakistani peer.

QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - At least 13 people were shot dead by gunmen in a suspected sectarian attack on a passenger bus in Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province on Tuesday, the second such attack in just over two weeks.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House's attempts to set a fresh course with Pakistan are being hobbled by bad options, bureaucratic tensions and the desire to avoid severing a vexing but critical relationship.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's powerful army chief General Ashfaq Kayani met with his top commanders on Sunday in a "special" meeting to discuss the security situation, the military said, as the war of words with the United States escalated.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan shot back on Saturday at U.S. allegations that its powerful spy agency supports the Haqqani militant group fighting coalition troops in Afghanistan, describing them as a sign of American "confusion and policy disarray."

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan shot back on Saturday at U.S. allegations that its powerful spy agency supports the Haqqani militant group fighting coalition troops in Afghanistan, describing them as a sign of American "confusion and policy disarray."

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Washington's stunning charge that Pakistan's spy service is backing violence against U.S. targets in Afghanistan has pushed Islamabad into a tight corner: either it cleans up the powerful agency or it faces the wrath of an angry superpower.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's foreign minister said on Thursday the United States risks losing an ally if it continues to publicly criticize Islamabad's performance in the war against militancy.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's foreign minister said on Thursday the United States risks losing an ally if it continues to publicly criticize Islamabad's performance in the war against militancy.

(Reuters) - While the ruins of New York's World Trade Center were still smouldering in late September 2001, President George W. Bush put nations around the globe on notice: "Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists."

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's new second-in-command was killed earlier this week in Pakistan, U.S. officials said Saturday, in a major blow to the group still reeling from the death of Osama bin Laden.

LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - The son of a Pakistani governor who was killed by his bodyguard for his opposition to a harsh blasphemy law this year was kidnapped in the eastern city of Lahore on Friday, police and the family said.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Flash floods triggered by monsoon rains wiped out a village in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 33 people, a government official said on Friday.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - An American development expert kidnapped 12 days ago in the Pakistani city of Lahore has been rescued, a police official said on Thursday.

LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - An American development expert kidnapped 11 days ago in the Pakistani city of Lahore should be recovered "soon," a top police official said Wednesday.

KARACHI (Reuters) - Pakistan's government is facing increased pressure from business groups to deploy the army in the commercial hub of Karachi after at least 65 people were killed in a surge of gang and political violence over the past three days.

(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Pakistan on Friday at 7 a.m. EDT.

LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani police on Thursday released a sketch of a man suspected of being involved in kidnapping an American development expert, but there are no clues so far about the abductors' motive.

KARACHI (Reuters) - Behind the high walls and gates of the only prison for women in Pakistan's commercial hub, inmates such as Sadaf escape from prison every day -- even if it's only in her mind.

KARACHI (Reuters) - Up to 30 people have been killed in a fresh outbreak of violence in Karachi, Pakistan's biggest city and commercial capital, but police on Thursday said the clashes now focused more on gang turf wars after months of ethnic and political disputes.