Leaders insisted China-backed coal deals would fix Pakistan’s energy crisis. But the power plants have threatened residents’ health and left the nation in a debt trap.

The Bush administration has paid Pakistan more than $2 billion without adequate proof that the Pakistani government used the funds for their intended purpose of supporting U.S. counterterrorism ...

This is as much a problem of psychology as policy. Few nations are as paranoid as Pakistan–where it is a widespread belief that India is behind every setback, that the United States plans to seize ...

When the world looks at Pakistan, its attention justifiably focuses on the rugged northern border with Afghanistan, a nexus of Taliban activity and the site of an ongoing multi-pronged campaign ...

Pakistan is facing a deep crisis five months after a new, democratically elected government swept into power. The economy is in shambles: rampant inflation has forced sharp hikes in the cost of basic ...

In Pakistan, a year of political deadlock has paralyzed the courts and unraveled the economy, and now there are fears that history could repeat itself. Pakistan is a place where generals have ruled ...

(Reuters) - The foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan will meet in New Delhi Thursday to resume official contacts which India broke off after militants attacked the Indian city of Mumbai in late ...

Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep has been in Pakistan this week for NPR's series on South Asia's Grand Trunk Road. Michele Norris speaks with him from Islamabad about local reaction to the ...

When discussing the various inconvenient friendships of convenience in which the United States is entangled, Pakistan is a country that comes to mind almost immediately. Since gaining independence ...

Things are pretty calm in India. Its recent election of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh means that the world’s largest democracy will once again be led by a seasoned economist. And it all happened ...

In diplomacy, perception is everything. The day that Pakistan’s new prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani was sworn in this week, two top American diplomats were there from Washington to congratulate him.

Al Qaeda is based in Pakistan and Al Qaeda's policy is the overthrow of the current system in Pakistan to be replaced by one controlled by Al Qaeda, and the acquisition of nuclear weapons, of which ...