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Intelligence centers, aid package planned By Farah Stockman, Globe Staff | February 25, 2008 WASHINGTON - US officials are quietly planning to expand their presence in and around the lawless tribal areas of Pakistan by creating special coordination centers on the Afghan side of the border...

By wendell minnick Published: 3 Jan 16:04 EST (11:04 GMT) TAIPEI - The timing could not have been worse for U.S. supporters of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf. On Dec. 31, Pentagon officials announced that Lockheed Martin was being awarded a Foreign Military Sales contract...

By PRATAP CHAKRAVARTY Published: 17 Feb 10:33 EST (05:33 GMT) NEW DELHI - India, which plans to purchase billions of dollars worth of military hardware in the next five years, will soon relax strict rules on arms imports, officials say. A new Defense Procurement Policy, or DPP, will be...

agence france-presse Published: 25 Feb 14:18 EST (09:18 GMT) WARSAW - Polish state-controlled arms company Bumar on Feb. 25 announced it was poised to sign a 1.2-billion-dollar (809-million-euro) deal to supply military equipment to India. "We are expecting to sign contracts worth...

Indian Agency Plans More Israeli Spy Sat Launches By vivek raghuvanshi Published: 11 Feb 12:48 EST (07:48 GMT) NEW DELHI - India plans to launch more Israeli spy satellites from Indian territory, say sources in the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), despite domestic political...

By barbara opall-rome Published: 13 Feb 11:22 EST (06:22 GMT) TEL AVIV - Israel's first 24-hour, all-weather, high-resolution radar satellite, dubbed TechSAR, was inserted into orbit Jan. 21 by an Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV). The launch from the Sriharikota test site on...

agence france-presse Published: 18 Feb 16:40 EST (11:40 GMT) MOSCOW - Algeria wants to return 15 fighter jets it bought from Russia because of their poor quality, the Kommersant daily reported on Feb. 18, citing an official from Russia's state United Aerospace Corporation. The official...

By vivek raghuvanshi Published: 18 Feb 13:04 EST (08:04 GMT) Print | Email NEW DELHI - French companies Eurocopter and Mach Aero have agreed to establish a manufacturing unit in India. The memorandum of agreement signed by the two firms here Feb. 18 during Defexpo, the biennial defense...

Gates visit here coincided with the announcement that India had tested a nuclear-capable missile, fired from an underwater platform in the Bay of Bengal. It was unclear if the test was successful. Asked about the test, Gates said, "We have to deal with the world as we find it." He added...

Gates visit here coincided with the announcement that India had tested a nuclear-capable missile, fired from an underwater platform in the Bay of Bengal. It was unclear if the test was successful. Asked about the test, Gates said, "We have to deal with the world as we find it." He added...

By Zeeshan Haider Reuters Tuesday, February 26, 2008; 2:41 AM ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani army chief General Pervez Kayani is appointing a new head of military intelligence, a newspaper reported on Tuesday, the first major reshuffle in the military since President Pervez Musharraf...

By Kristin Roberts Reuters Tuesday, February 26, 2008; 6:29 AM NEW DELHI (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived in New Delhi on Tuesday to pursue closer strategic ties with India after a breakthrough aircraft deal the Pentagon thinks could usher in a new era of defense...

NEW DELHI - India tested a nuclear-capable missile designed to be launched from a submarine, in a move aimed at expanding India's ability to respond in case of a nuclear attack, officials said Tuesday. It was unclear if the testing was successful. "We are still awaiting reports from the...

By CARLOTTA GALL and JANE PERLEZ Published: February 20, 2008 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The winners of Pakistan’s parliamentary elections said Tuesday that they would take a new approach to fighting Islamic militants by pursuing more dialogue than military confrontation, and that they would undo...

By CARLOTTA GALL and JANE PERLEZ Published: February 20, 2008 Correction Appended ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The winners of Pakistan’s parliamentary elections said Tuesday that they would take a new approach to fighting Islamic militants by pursuing more dialogue than military confrontation, and...

By Andrew Buncombe in Islamabad and Omar Waraichin Lahore Thursday, 21 February 2008 The US and Britain are pressing Pervez Musharraf’s victorious opponents to drop their demands that he resign as president and that the country’s independent judiciary be restored before forming a...

By Gary Thomas Washington 20 February 2008 Thomas report - Download (MP3) Thomas report - Listen (MP3) The stinging rebuke Pakistani voters delivered to President Pervez Musharraf has reverberated in the corridors of power in Washington. Since 1999, the United States only had...

Parliamentary elections are scheduled for February 18 in Pakistan. Sadly, it is essentially irrelevant which party will come out strongest and what kind of government will result from the post-election political machinery. Pakistan faces a very real danger of collapsing as an effective national...

"All of a sudden what had been a nuisance is becoming a threat to the existence of the government," Gates said.

By David Morgan and Kristin Roberts WASHINGTON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Pakistan must learn how to fight al Qaeda and the Taliban after years of preparing for a more traditional contest with India, Pentagon chief Robert Gates said on Wednesday, reiterating a U.S. offer to help. The U.S. defense...