Pakistan and foreign forces in Afghanistan have stressed the need for coordination in battling Qaeda and Taliban militants who hide out on both sides of the frontier.

Missiles fired from a remotely piloted U.S. aircraft slammed into a village in the North Waziristan region of Pakistan along the Afghan border on Friday and killed from 10 to 13 people.

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier heads to Pakistan Monday for talks expected to focus on the worsening conflict in Afghanistan and the financial crisis, the German government said.

PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) -- Pakistan's top diplomat outlined a strategy for battling terrorism Wednesday that emphasizes going-it-alone militarily within Pakistani borders and talking with opponents if they lay down their arms....

PRINCETON, NJ (Reuters) - U.S. military raids against militants inside Pakistan threaten to hurt progress being made against them by Pakistani forces and are an intrusion on Pakistan's sovereignty, the country's new foreign minister said on Wednesday.

James Denselow: The US may have overthrown the Taliban, but the lack of a coherent policy for Pakistan has given al-Qaida breathing space

Gen. David H. Petraeus said in an interview that he expected the fight against the insurgents in Afghanistan and Pakistan to get worse before it got better.

PESHAWAR, Sep 30 (IPS) - Petrol pumps in Pakistan’s border regions do brisk
business. Jerry cans of fuel are carried both clandestinely and
openly across the porous frontier for sale in neighbouring
Afghanistan.

KABUL, Sep 30 (IPS) - In a teeming petrol market on the outskirts of
Kabul, black market traders sell fuel to everyone from individual
customers to large business groups. Although much of this petrol
comes from Iran or the Central Asian countries, a good amount
also hails from Pakistan, where government subsidies have made
the fuel much cheaper than in Afghanistan.

Pakistan's Zardari vows to 'suck the oxygen' from the system that took his wife's life.