Blog posts tagged "Pakistan"

February 24, 2012 3:39 pm 10 Comments

There’s a lot of fuss at the moment about female war correspondents as if we were some kind of recently discovered species. Yet we’ve been around a while. Lyse Doucet of the BBC and I call those of our vintage the “Old Trouts Club”. Most of us are in our 40s and 50s, although Dame Ann Leslie is certainly a member and she’s more than 70.

January 26, 2012 8:36 pm No Comments

John Sparks on his meeting with Imran Khan, whose political star is rising despite his party currently having no seats in Pakistan's parliament.

October 14, 2011 4:09 pm 3 Comments

The most senior British diplomat working on Afghanistan has given the most damning assessment of the UK's record in the country that I have heard from a serving official. Jonathan Rugman reports.

May 9, 2011 10:20 am 5 Comments

A former senior intelligence official in Pakistan’s intelligence service tells John Sparks that the US has badly damaged relations between Washington and Islamabad, and fears the ISI may be unwilling to continue working with the CIA.

May 5, 2011 8:18 pm 3 Comments

Lindsey Hilsum writes from Abbottabad's "Bin Laden Town" on the impact of the killing of Osama bin Laden on US/Pakistani relations.

May 2, 2011 5:47 pm 4 Comments

Our International Editor, Lindsey Hilsum, asks how much difference the death of Osama bin Laden will make to Al-Qaeda.

December 15, 2010 8:41 pm 2 Comments

Two British nationals, reportedly fighting with al-Qaeda militants, have been killed in the tribal region of Pakistan, near the Afghan border. Sources in both the Pakistan Taliban and the Pakistan military have told Channel 4 News that the two men were killed in a CIA drone strike five days ago.

November 9, 2010 12:41 pm 1 Comment

Our Chief Correspondent, Alex Thomson, reports on the latest developments in the mystery surrounding the young Pakistani wicket-keeper who fled to Britain claiming his life was being threatened over the result of a cricket match.

October 7, 2010 11:56 am 1 Comment

The Taliban in Pakistan have now claimed responsibility for the murder of Dr Mohammad Farooq Khan, writes foreign affairs producer Nevine Mabro.

September 27, 2010 6:00 am 2 Comments

As the victims of Pakistan's worst floods in history await help, Jonathan Miller writes about the story of malnourished baby Fazal.