Islamabad

Flying into Islamabad in the middle of the night, I braced myself for the upcoming rituals of customs and baggage. “Patience,” I kept repeating to myself, as I descended the steps from the plane and onto a bus crowded with other passengers, including a lot of sleepy children […]

The US is suspending about a third of its annual aid to the Pakistani military.

As the monsoons keep coming, flooding continues to destroy infrastructure and cause panic in Pakistan. Lyse Doucet, BBC correspondent in Islamabad describes the scene.

A bomb exploded in the lobby of the offices of the United Nations’ World Food Programme in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad. At least three people have been killed and several others injured.

Though analysts suspect that that a truck bomb attack in Pakistan was a warning to the new leadership of Pakistan to end its collaboration with the United States, South Asian and military affairs analyst Christine Fair sees things differently.