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A judge has postponed a hearing set for this week in the case of a naturalized United States citizen from Pakistan charged in the failed Times Square car bombing. The magistrate judge's order granting a 20-day continuance in the case against the man, Faisal Shahzad, which was requested by the prosecutors and consented to by Mr. Shahzad's lawyers, was disclosed in court papers filed Tuesday. The papers, the judge's two-page order and a two-page affirmation sworn to by one of the prosecutors, were made available by the United States attorney's office on Wednesday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- Pakistan's military, including its powerful spy agency, has spent $4 million over two decades in a covert attempt to tilt American policy against India's control of much of Kashmir -- including funneling campaign donations to members of Congress and presidential candidates, the F.B.I. claimed in court papers unsealed Tuesday. The allegations of a long-running plan to influence American elections and foreign policy come at a time of deep tensions between the United States and Pakistan -- and in particular its spy agency -- amid the fallout over the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden at a compound deep inside Pakistan on May 2. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Obama administration's ambitious civilian push in Pakistan and Afghanistan will keep thousands of Americans in those countries for years -- rebuilding Afghan agriculture, rooting out corruption and using the local media to counter anti-American sentiment. The steps, laid out in a 30-page policy paper to be released Thursday by the State Department, are the most detailed blueprint yet for the civilian part of the administration's strategy in the region. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

I WAS born in Pakistan and came to the United States in 1981, when I was 11. My grandfather owned a farm in Pakistan and we had been fairly well-to-do. We started at the bottom when we came here. My father found a job as a machinist during the day and worked at McDonald's and Burger King at night. All five of my siblings pitched in. I delivered newspapers to 300 houses. Instead of putting the paper into the mailbox, I'd deliver it to the door. I got great tips. When I was 13, a flower shop hired me to water the flowers. Soon I was taking care of orders. By 16, I had learned a lot. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reports on the continuing emergence of new information on the nuclear network led by Pakistani metallurgist A.Q. Khan, chief architect of Pakistan's bomb, nearly one year after his house arrest. Discovery by experts from the United States and the United Nations' nuclear watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency of blueprints for a ten-kiloton atomic bomb in the files of the Libyan weapons program; Concerns by the administration of U.S. President George Bush about destabilizing Pakistan, considered an ally, if it pushes too hard for access to Khan, who is considered a national hero in Pakistan; Description of Khan's nuclear network; Countries involved in Khan's centrifuge design and uranium-related activities, such as the Netherlands. INSET: A Nuclear Network Partly Revealed..