In this episode, “NewsBusted” covers: Pakistan, California, Gitmo, Nancy Pelosi, Global Warming, New York Times, Jimmy Kimmel, Sarah Silverman, Barbie, E! Network, Scarlett Johansson, and Gary Busey. [youtube 7818jqRf6xk nolink]
The party of Pakistan’s opposition leader and former prime minister says he has been detained ahead of an anti-government rally. Nawaz Sharif and other members of his party have been detained hours before he was due to address the protest
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden says Afghanistan and Pakistan increasingly pose a single security challenge for the western allies as well as non-NATO nations equally.
Embedded video from CNN Video Video footage showed several gunmen with automatic weapons opening firing on the convoy from a roundabout, Liberty Square, close to the stadium.
Fox News: U.S. Special Envoy Richard Holbrooke arrived in Pakistan Monday for talks with government and civil leaders. Holbrooke is known around Washington as a man with a huge portfolio and a comparable ego — something even his new boss
The scientist who helped Pakistan develop nuclear weapons and allegedly leaked atomic secrets to North Korea, Iran and Libya, was freed from years of de facto house arrest. U.S. officials says Abdul Qadeer Khan is a security risk.
AP: Vice President-elect Joe Biden capped his tour of U.S. battlefronts with a visit to Iraq, arriving Monday in Baghdad following trips to Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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Pakistan has started to redeploy thousands of troops to the Indian border from the tribal areas near Afghanistan, intelligence officials said Friday, raising tensions triggered by the Mumbai terror attacks.
The vehicles, including dozens of Humvees, were destined for U.S. and allied forces fighting in Afghanistan. This is the boldest attack so far on the critical military supply line through Pakistan.
AFP: “They are from across the border and perhaps from Faridkot, Pakistan. They tried to pretend that they were from Hyderabad,”
NYT: The United States military since 2004 has used broad, secret authority to carry out nearly a dozen previously undisclosed attacks against Al Qaeda and other militants in Syria, Pakistan and elsewhere, according to senior American officials.
AP: A strong earthquake struck before dawn Wednesday in impoverished southwestern Pakistan, killing at least 170 people, and turning thousands of homes of mud and timber homes into rubble.
Pakistan claims to have killed douzens of Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants near the Afghan border, just days after the bombing of the Marriot Hotel, which claimed 60 lives.
AP: A massive truck bomb devastated the heavily guarded Marriott Hotel in Pakistan’s capital Saturday, killing at least 40 people and wounding at least 100. Officials feared there were dozens more dead inside the burning building.
CBS News: The “rules of engagement” have been loosened, allowing troops to conduct border attacks without being fired on first if they witness attacks coming from the region.
A military offensive in north-west Pakistan has driven at least 250,000 from their homes. Pakistani forces launched an offensive earlier this month against Islamist militant strongholds in the tribal region bordering Afghanistan – an area Washington and Islamabad regards as
The US dollar gained in trading against the euro this session as geopolitical tensions in Russia and Pakistan eased and oil prices continued to slide.
AP: A multi-pronged militant assault on a small, remote U.S. base close to the Pakistan border killed nine American soldiers and wounded 15 Sunday in the deadliest attack on U.S. forces in Afghanistan in three years.
Investigators from Britain’s Scotland Yard visited the scene of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination Saturday, and Pakistan’s president told CBS “60 Minutes” in an interview scheduled to air Sunday, that Bhutto may have been shot.
New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson calls Musharraf a “terrorist” but claims he meant to say tyrant.
Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday in a suicide attack that also killed at least 20 others at a campaign rally. The White House has condemned the attack.
A Pakistani-British man suspected of being part of an alleged plot to blow up transatlantic flights has escaped from custody in Pakistan.
Thousands rounded up under emergency powers two weeks ago are being freed.
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has imposed emergency rule as paramilitary troops are deployed at television and radio stations.
Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto says international technical experts could help identify who tried to assassinate her.
The report concludes that the 9/11 attacks were an exception, not the rule, and that the real threat comes not from al Qaeda in Pakistan but from a growing number of clusters are young Muslim men who are American citizens.
Pakistan’s President Musharraf is facing the most serious challenge to his authority since he came to power. The storming of a mosque in Islamabad has led to a string of bombings. Now the country’s youth has responded.
[dailymotion 2z0QegUpyX0i8i2ZG nolink] President Bush’s Homeland Security Advisor Fran Townsend made it clear at a press conference today that al-Qaeda in Iraq is same entity as al-Qaeda in Pakistan.