Pakistan

by Nadege Puljak | May 25, 2012 President Francois Hollande is on his first visit to Afghanistan since taking office earlier this month President Francois Hollande on Friday defended France's imminent exit from Afghanistan, saying 2,000 combat troops will leave in a coordinated withdrawal this year but vowing not to abandon the country. Hollande met French soldiers deployed in the volatile province of Kapisa

Reuters | 1 hour ago File photo from April 26, 2012 shows Pakistani police commandos guarding a house where the family of Osama bin Laden were detained, in Islamabad.- Photo by AP ISLAMABAD: Osama bin Laden's three wives were fiercely loyal to him and gave little away when they were interrogated after the al Qaeda chief was killed in a US raid over a year ago, a Pakistani intelligence agent who questioned them said.

ISLAMABAD - Police say gunmen have killed at least seven passengers in an attack on a bus in southern Pakistan. Officer Javed Ahmed said separatists were suspected in the ambush Friday in remote Kazi Ahmed district in Sindh province. Sindh is home to small separatist groups that have engaged in low-level violence before, but attacks of this nature are rare. Ahmed said several other people were wounded in the incident.

0 A Senate panel expressed its outrage over the conviction of a Pakistani doctor who helped the US get Osama bin Laden by slashing aid by $33 million - $1 million for every year of the doctor's 33-year sentence. The Appropriations Committee approved the amendment 30-0 on Thursday as Republicans and Democrats widely criticized Pakistan's conviction of Shakil Afridi for high treason a day earlier.

Friday, 25 May 2012 Islamabad, May 25: Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto was killed because the government of then president Parvez Musharraf did not provide her adequate security, her son Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has alleged. Bilawal, who is chairman of the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), said Musharraf was aware of the threats when Al Qaeda had instructed the Taliban to kill her.