Al Qaeda’s number two Ayman al-Zawahri released an audio recording Wednesday accusing the Pakistani government of responding too slowly to severe flooding in the country and calling on Pakistanis to revolt. Zawahri, believed to be hiding in...

Anas bin Saleem, a 12-year-old American, spends seven hours a day sitting cross-legged on the floor memorizing the Quran. He is one of thousands of foreigners who have flocked to conservative Islamic schools in Pakistan, despite a government ban, the...

The officials told NBC News that the attack using Hellfire missiles had taken place in the last few days. They said the target was not the network’s Saudi leader Osama bin Laden or his Egyptian deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri.

India’s home minister said on Wednesday the government was prepared to withdraw a “significant” number of troops from Indian-held Kashmir (IHK). Briefing lawmakers in parliament on the state of domestic security, P Chidambaram noted that militant...

Suspicions by Pakistan’s powerful army that the country’s civilian leadership is growing too close to the United States are fueling a political crisis that analysts here believe threatens the survival of the government and could divert...

Life is slowly getting back to normal at the women’s campus of Islamabad’s International Islamic University. The young women who study here chatter on the school’s well-manicured lawns, their brightly-colored scarves and Pakistani...

A cargo train collided with a passenger train in Pakistan’s commercial capital of Karachi on Tuesday, killing 12 people and wounding 19 others, police said. The police chief of Karachi ruled out the possibility of sabotage, saying the crash was...

He said the device had only “fizzled”. The claims by the test director K Santhanam have provoked an outcry in India which treasures its nuclear status as a symbol of its power in Asia where it has been locked in an arms race with both...

Pashtun literature used to be full of romance and praise for the beauty of nature. Now it reflects the death and explosions that have filled the lives of Pakistanis. The literary trend is the lesser-known victim of the “Talibanization” in...

For as long as anyone can remember, there was no need for paper money in this remote corner of the Hindu Kush. The common currency was what grew in everyone’s backyard — opium. When children felt like buying candy, they ran into their...