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This article reports that the U.S. may withhold funds in Foreign Military Financing for Pakistan until it did more to crack down on internal terrorist groups. Topics covered include the Canadian-American family freed in October 2017 by Pakistani forces from Haqqani militants, Pakistan's rejection of U.S. requests for access to one of the abductors captured by the military, and how Pakistan is viewed by U.S. National Security Council officials Lieutenant General H. R. McMaster and Lisa Curtis.

The article reports on the launch of more drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen in July 2013 despite the assurance of U.S. President Barack Obama about the change in the country's targeted-killing operations.

WASHINGTON -- President Obama on Monday defended the use of drones to strike suspected terrorists in Pakistan and elsewhere, saying the clandestine program was ''kept on a very tight leash'' and enabled the United States to use ''pinpoint'' targeting to avoid more intrusive military action. Mr. Obama, in an unusually candid public discussion of the Central Intelligence Agency's covert program, said the drone strikes had not inflicted huge civilian casualties. ''We are very careful in terms of how it's been applied,'' he said. ''It is important for everybody to understand that this thing is kept on a very tight leash.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- Osama bin Laden was not carrying a weapon when he was killed by American troops in a fortified house in Pakistan, the White House said Tuesday, as it revised its initial account of the nighttime raid. Members of a Navy Seals team burst in on Bin Laden in the compound where he was hiding and shot him in a room on an upper floor, after a fierce gun battle with other operatives of Al Qaeda on the first floor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- The killing of Osama bin Laden deep in Pakistan is sure to fuel the debate over the Obama administration's strategy in Afghanistan, where 100,000 troops are still fighting a war to destroy Al Qaeda. And the raid, conducted without the cooperation or even advance knowledge of Pakistan, raised fresh doubts about the lengthy American effort to turn it into a trustworthy partner in the hunt for terrorists. As President Obama approaches a critical period in deciding how many troops to pull out of Afghanistan -- and how fast -- the deadly raid on Al Qaeda's leader called into question many of the administration's basic assumptions about how to prevent Afghanistan from becoming a safe haven for Islamic terrorists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has chosen Marc Grossman, a retired senior diplomat and former ambassador to Turkey, as the Obama administration's new special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, a senior State Department official said Monday. Mr. Grossman, who left the State Department in 2005 and is the vice chairman of a consulting firm, will succeed Richard C. Holbrooke, who died of a torn aorta in December, leaving a void in the senior policy-making ranks on one of the White House's most pressing foreign-policy issues. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

NEW DELHI -- Senior American military commanders have sought to press India to formally disavow an obscure military doctrine that they contend is fueling tensions between India and Pakistan and hindering the American war effort in Afghanistan. But with President Obama arriving in India on Saturday for a closely watched three-day visit, administration officials said they did not expect him to broach the subject of the doctrine, known informally as Cold Start. At the most, these officials predicted, Mr. Obama will quietly encourage India's leaders to do what they can to cool tensions between these nuclear-armed neighbors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- As Pakistani civilian and military leaders arrive here this week for high-level meetings, the Obama administration will begin trying to mend a relationship badly damaged by the American military's tough new stance in the region. Among the sweeteners on the table will be a multiyear security pact with Pakistan, complete with more reliable military aid -- something the Pakistani military has long sought to complement the five-year, $7.5 billion package of nonmilitary aid approved by Congress last year. The administration will also discuss how to channel money to help Pakistan rebuild after its ruinous flood. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- The floods in Pakistan have upended the Obama administration's carefully honed strategy there, confronting the United States with a vast humanitarian crisis and militant groups determined to exploit the misery, in a country that was already one of its thorniest problems. While the administration has kept its public emphasis on the relief effort, senior officials are busy assessing the longer-term strategic impact. One official said the disaster would affect virtually every aspect of the relationship between the United States and Pakistan, and could have ripple effects on the war in Afghanistan and the broader American battle against Al Qaeda. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The last time Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was in Pakistan, less than a year ago, she was asked when the United States would stop killing innocent civilians in its covert drone attacks. She, in turn, suggested that officials in the Pakistani government knew where Al Qaeda's leaders were hiding. The mood was noticeably less toxic on Monday, perhaps in part because Mrs. Clinton showed up with more than $500 million in economic aid, part of her campaign to win over a skeptical Pakistani public. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Afghanistan and Pakistan signed a landmark trade agreement on Sunday, auguring a thaw between these two perennially suspicious neighbors and handing the Obama administration a rare victory in its beleaguered war effort in Afghanistan. The United States had prodded the two countries to sign the accord, calculating that it would bolster the Afghan economy by expanding its trade routes and curbing rampant smuggling. The pact would cover a multitude of trade and transit issues, ranging from import duties to port access. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- The White House is dispatching two senior national security aides to Pakistan this week to press the government there to intensify efforts to investigate the failed Times Square bomb plot and prevent others like it, administration officials said Monday. Gen. James L. Jones, the national security adviser, and Leon E. Panetta, the C.I.A. director, were set to leave Washington on Monday night, in the highest-level American visit to Pakistan, the authorities say, since Faisal Shahzad, a naturalized Pakistani immigrant, drove a crude car bomb into Times Square on May 1. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- The evidence of ties between the man accused of being the Times Square bomber and Pakistani militants has intensified debate inside the Obama administration about expanding America's military presence in Pakistan, with some officials making the case to increase the number of Special Operations troops working with Pakistani forces in the country's western mountains. The American military presence in Pakistan has already grown substantially over the past year, and now totals more than two hundred troops, part of a largely secret program to share intelligence with Pakistani Army and paramilitary troops and train them to battle militant groups. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- Pakistan and the United States wrapped up two days of high-level talks on Thursday, with a raft of economic development initiatives, an agreement to hasten deliveries of military hardware and a promise to put their often mistrustful relationship on a new footing. In a communique issued after the talks, the countries said they would ''redouble their efforts to deal effectively with terrorism'' and would work together for ''peace and stability in Afghanistan.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- With American troops pouring into insurgent strongholds in Afghanistan and the United States succeeding in killing insurgent leaders with drone attacks in Pakistan, the Obama administration is beginning to consider whether it has gained the upper hand sufficiently to justify an effort to begin talks with the Taliban. President Obama met with his war cabinet on Friday, and the issue of reconciling with the Taliban is gaining traction, even as administration officials debate whether the time is right. [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]

For Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has had her ups and downs with the news media, the prospect of spending three days under the remorseless glare of the Pakistani news media might have felt like an unwelcome return to a time right before the New Hampshire primary. Yet Mrs. Clinton, whose press clippings since she became secretary of state have been kinder than when she was a presidential candidate, rolled with the punches this week in a media-saturated tour of Pakistan. She submitted to four round-table interviews over three days in which Pakistan's leading journalists took their best shots at her, and she even counterpunched once or twice. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, on a visit meant to improve relations with Pakistan, strongly suggested Thursday that some Pakistani officials bore responsibility for allowing terrorists from Al Qaeda to operate from safe havens along this country's frontier. ''I find it hard to believe that nobody in your government knows where they are, and couldn't get to them if they really wanted to,'' she said to a group of Pakistani journalists on her second day here. ''Maybe that's the case; maybe they're not gettable. I don't know.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton came here to tell Pakistanis that the United States sought a relationship built on more than fighting terrorism. Hours after her arrival, the horrific car-bomb attack in Peshawar showed why this will be an uphill battle. Mrs. Clinton condemned the attack in Peshawar, about two hours from Islamabad by car. The bomb tore through a fabric market, killing as many as 101 people, many of them women and children -- groups Mrs. Clinton champions in her travels to other developing countries. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Militants in Pakistan and Afghanistan punctuated Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's arrival here with deadly attacks on Wednesday, underscoring their ability to cause chaos even in the face of offensives on both sides of the border. In Pakistan, a devastating car bomb tore through a congested market in the northwest city of Peshawar, killing as many as 101 people, many of them women and children. Pakistani authorities said the attack was the country's most serious in two years, and the deadliest ever in Peshawar, which has become a front line for Taliban efforts to destabilize the government through violence. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton landed here Wednesday, saying she was determined to broaden America's relationship with Pakistan beyond the security and anti-terrorism concerns that have dominated ties and sowed mutual suspicion. Mrs. Clinton's three-day mission, conducted under an extraordinary security blanket, may be the greatest test yet of her skills as a messenger of American good will to an often-suspicious world. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When President Obama named two marquee diplomats as his special emissaries to the Middle East and to Afghanistan and Pakistan last January, many here wondered whether they would eclipse Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Nine months later, the two envoys, Richard C. Holbrooke and George J. Mitchell, are the ones fighting to stay in the limelight. For reasons having to do with personality clashes, deteriorating conditions on the ground and the sheer difficulty of reconciling old enemies, Mr. Holbrooke and Mr. Mitchell are both struggling with their portfolios, widely acknowledged to be the most treacherous in American foreign policy. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The United States pledged an additional $110 million in aid to Pakistan on Tuesday, reflecting both the deepening humanitarian crisis in the Swat Valley and what the administration says is its growing confidence in Pakistan's efforts to combat the Taliban. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced the new package, which includes tents, radios and emergency generators, as well as money to buy grain from Pakistani farmers, at a White House briefing. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

On May 4, 1999, Husain Haqqani was yanked off a Pakistani street and bundled into a car, a blanket thrown over his head. He managed to keep his cellphone hidden in his pocket, and surreptitiously dialed a friend's number to let her know he was in trouble. That may have saved his skin, said Mr. Haqqani, now Pakistan's ambassador to the United States. The news of his detention made it harder for his captors, Pakistani intelligence agents, to hurt him, Mr. Haqqani said, though he was roughed up and kept in jail for two months until a court ordered his release. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Pakistan's leaders began an arduous campaign here on Tuesday to convince the United States that they will repel recent incursions by Taliban militant groups, secure their own nuclear arsenal and make good use of American military and economic assistance. The first audience for the pitch was Congress, as President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan met privately for 90 minutes with members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Several of its members are wary of the Obama administration's request for additional military and economic aid to Pakistan, at a time when its confidence in the government is ebbing. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Residents flooded out of the Swat Valley by the thousands on Tuesday as the government prepared to mount a new military campaign against Taliban militants and as a much-criticized peace accord with the insurgents fell apart. People crammed into cars and buses and headed south after the local government told residents to leave Swat before a government military offensive. On Sunday, black-turbaned Taliban fighters seized control of Mingora, Swat's capital. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The big idea behind the Obama administration's long-in-the-making policy for Afghanistan and Pakistan was that the two countries are inextricably linked. The key to stabilizing Afghanistan, the White House concluded five weeks ago, is a stable and cooperative Pakistan. That calculation has been utterly scrambled by the Taliban offensive in western Pakistan, which has forced the United States to concentrate on the singular task of preventing further gains in Pakistan by an Islamic militant insurgency that has claimed territory just 60 miles from Islamabad. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The International Monetary Fund, onetime firefighter for the global economy, is suddenly being called back into action, even as its chief stumbles on his way to the rescue. The fund is nearing agreements to make emergency loans to Iceland and Ukraine, and discussing aid packages with Pakistan and Hungary -- moves that would thrust it into the thick of a global crisis after a frustrating period in which it was a bystander. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports that Germany, as cited by Government security officials in Frankfurt, Germany, on June 22, 2007, faces increased risk of terrorist attacks due to its military involvement in Afghanistan. Three German residents, believed to be Islamic militants, informs German Federal Criminal Police, were arrested in Pakistan. In July 6, Germany avoided a terrorist attack when two bombs, hidden in a suitcase on trains, failed to explode.

The article informs that Shaukat Aziz, Prime Minister of Pakistan, has disclosed that people sympathetic to the Taliban had been active in the frontier regions near the border with Afghanistan. The prime minister accused the weak authority of the Afghan government. Aziz said that the core of the problem is in Afghanistan.

Reports that General Pervez Musharraf, President of Pakistan, has acknowledged that scientists from his country appear to have sold nuclear designs to other nations, probably for personal financial gain. Denial that the Pakistan government knew of any sales at the times; Vow that suspects would be dealt with as antistate elements; Documents relating to Libya and Iran's nuclear programs which undercut years of Pakistani denials and forced Musharaff's hand; Case for officially sanctioned transfer of technology which has not been proved.

Reports on the closing of the crossing border between India and Pakistan following the assault against India's Parliament House on December 13, 2001.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- President Obama took a symbolic step toward improving ties with Pakistan on Tuesday when he met with Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on the sidelines of a nuclear summit meeting in South Korea. But even as the two leaders made polite, if freighted, comments about improved cooperation, harsh debate in Pakistan's Parliament on Tuesday made clear that there may be very little political upside for any Pakistani warming toward Washington. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- President Obama phoned the president of Pakistan on Sunday to offer ''condolences'' for the deaths of two dozen soldiers killed in NATO airstrikes along the Afghan border, the White House said. The conversation, eight days after the attack, overcame the reservations of some Defense Department officials and favored an approach suggested by diplomats who had urged a conciliatory gesture to try to repair the strained alliance between the two countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Obama administration is stepping up pressure on Pakistan to expand and reorient its fight against the Taliban and Al Qaeda, warning that failing to do so would undercut the new strategy and troop increase for Afghanistan that President Obama is preparing to approve, American officials say. While Afghanistan has dominated the public discussion of Mr. Obama's strategy, which officials say could be announced as early as this week, Pakistan is returning to center stage in administration planning. As the president traveled to Asia, his national security adviser, Gen. James L. Jones, was quietly sent to Islamabad, its capital. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Until now, the successive American generals in charge of the war in Afghanistan have argued that their responsibilities ended at the border with Pakistan. But the choice of a new and very different breed of general to take over the seven-year-old fight may mean the old mind-set has begun to change. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Pushing deeper into Pakistan, Taliban militants have established effective control of a strategically important district just 70 miles from the capital, Islamabad, officials and residents said Wednesday. The fall of the district, Buner, did not mean that the Taliban could imminently threaten Islamabad. But it was another indication of the gathering strength of the insurgency and it raised new alarm about the ability of the government to fend off an unrelenting Taliban advance toward the heart of Pakistan. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- Calling it a ''good day for America,'' President Obama said on Monday that the death of Osama bin Laden had made the world ''a better place,'' as new details emerged about the overnight raid and firefight in Pakistan that killed him. ''The world is safer,'' Mr. Obama said as he appeared at a White House ceremony bestowing the Medal of Honor to two soldiers killed in the Korean War. ''It is a better place because of the death of Osama bin Laden.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the most devastating attack on American soil in modern times and the most hunted man in the world, was killed in a firefight with United States forces in Pakistan on Sunday, President Obama announced. In a dramatic late-night appearance in the East Room of the White House, Mr. Obama declared that ''justice has been done'' as he disclosed that American military and C.I.A. operatives had finally cornered bin Laden, the Al Qaeda leader who had eluded them for nearly a decade. American officials said bin Laden resisted and was shot in the head. He was later buried at sea. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

CORRECTION APPENDED ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The assassination of an outspoken secular politician by one of his elite police guards on Tuesday plunged the government deeper into political crisis and highlighted the threat of militant infiltration even within the nation's security forces. The killing of Salman Taseer, the prominent governor of Punjab Province, was another grim reminder of the risks that Pakistani leaders take to oppose religious extremists, at a time when the United States is pushing Pakistan for greater cooperation in the war in Afghanistan by cracking down on militant groups like the Taliban. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A string of successful operations recently killing or capturing high-level figures from Al Qaeda, particularly in the tribal areas of Pakistan, has fueled the argument inside the Obama administration about the necessity of a substantial troop buildup in Afghanistan, officials said. Administration officials said the United States had eliminated more than half of its top targets over the last year, severely constricted Al Qaeda's capacity to operate and choked off a lot of its financing. The sense of progress against Al Qaeda and its allies has helped shape the internal debate over the best way to fight in Afghanistan as President Obama explores alternatives to a large escalation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

One casualty of the bombing that killed as many as 18 people at a luxury hotel here Tuesday night may be the effort to aid Pakistan's surging population of refugees, who have been displaced by the military campaign against the Taliban. Around 30 United Nations staff members were at the Pearl Continental Hotel on Tuesday when the bomber hit it, a United Nations spokesman said, and two were among the dead. More than 50 people were wounded in the attack. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

After a week of strong criticism here and abroad over its inaction, the Pakistani military deployed fighter jets and helicopter gunships to flush out hundreds of Taliban militants who overran the strategic district of Buner last week, the military said Tuesday. Pakistan also agreed to move 6,000 troops from its Indian border to fight militants on its western border with Afghanistan, according to a Pakistani official who did not want to be identified discussing troop movements in advance. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

As the Taliban tightened their hold over newly won territory, Pakistani politicians and American officials on Thursday sharply questioned the government's willingness to deal with the insurgents and the Pakistani military's decision to remain on the sidelines. Some 400 to 500 insurgents consolidated control of their new prize, a strategic district called Buner, just 70 miles from the capital, Islamabad, setting up checkpoints and negotiating a truce similar to the one that allowed the Taliban to impose Islamic law in the neighboring Swat Valley. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]