A suicide bomber targeted a large gathering of Shiite Muslims in the capital of Pakistan-controlled Kashmir on Sunday, killing five people and wounding 80 - a rare sectarian attack in an area police said has little history of militant violence. ...more

December 27, 2009

Security forces overran a militant camp on the outskirts of Pakistani Kashmir's main city and seized an alleged mastermind of the attacks that shook India's financial capital last month, two officials said Monday. ...more

December 9, 2008

Pakistan demanded late Saturday that India produce evidence to support allegations that it was involved in the three-day assault on India's financial and cultural capital, which came to a close earlier in the day. ...more

November 30, 2008

Most chronological details on Benazir Bhutto start in 1988 when she was sworn as the prime minister of Pakistan. But I remember her more as a 19-year old girl who in 1972 accompanied her father, Zulfiqar Bhutto, then president of Pakistan, to sign the Simla peace agreement with the then Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. She instantly became the sweetheart of India - she represented the hope that the future generation of Indians and Pakistanis will live in peace. ...more

January 2, 2008

Regarding "Pakistan: An Uncertain Ally" (Nation/World, Nov.): Sam Rashid needs to be glad that he has been able to go to his native Pakistan every year up until a couple of years ago. I have not been able to go home to my native Kashmir since 1989. My wish to visit home may be nostalgic, but the rest of my family who lived in Kashmir for centuries were forced from their own land and had to live like refugees in their own country. Such has been the situation for two decades in Kashmir, where Kashmiri Muslim militants trained by Taliban and al-Qaeda forces in Pakistan forced their Hindu neighbors to either leave or be killed. My father was shot by his Muslim friends on Aug. 24, 1990. ...more

November 8, 2007