Jane Perlez New York Times

Worries over China's chip ambitions were the main reason US officials blocked the proposed purchase of a controlling stake in Philips.

The rules had called for firms selling IT equipment to Chinese banks to turn over IP and submit source code, amid other demands.

The Obama administration is suspending and, in some cases, cancelling hundreds of millions of dollars of aid to the Pakistani military, in a move to chasten Pakistan for expelling American military trainers and to press its army to fight militants more effectively. Coupled with a statement from the top American military officer last week linking Pa...

Obama administration officials believe that Pakistan's powerful spy agency ordered the killing of a Pakistani journalist who had written scathing reports about the infiltration of militants in the country's military, according to American officials.New classified intelligence obtained before the May 29 disappearance of the journalist, Saleem Shahza...

China has agreed to immediately provide 50 JF-17 fighter jets to Pakistan, a major outcome of a visit by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani to Beijing this week, Pakistani officials said Thursday. China and Pakistan have jointly produced the JF-17 aircraft, but the new planes would be equipped with more sophisticated avionics, the officials said. Th...

Despite mounting pressure from the United States since the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden, Pakistan's army chief, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, seems unlikely to respond to American demands to root out other militant leaders, according to people who have met with him in the last 10 days.While the general does not want to abandon the allianc...

The reputation of the army, the most powerful and privileged force in Pakistan, has been severely undermined by the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden, raising profound questions about its credibility from people at home and from benefactors abroad, including the United States. That American helicopters could fly into Pakistan, carrying a te...

Pakistan has demanded that the United States steeply reduce the number of Central Intelligence Agency operatives and Special Operations forces working in Pakistan, and that it halt CIA drone strikes aimed at militants in northwest Pakistan. The request was a sign of the near collapse of cooperation between the two testy allies. Pakistani and Americ...

A criminal court agreed on Thursday to delay pressing murder charges against the CIA operative, Raymond L Davis, ruling that that lawyers for Mr Davis should have more time to prepare for the case.A Pakistani lawyer appeared on behalf of Mr Davis for the first time in pretrial proceedings held in the Lahore Central jail where he has been held since...

The only Christian minister in the Pakistan government was shot dead by assailants as he left his home in the capital Wednesday morning to attend a cabinet meeting, an attack strikingly similar to the killing two months ago of another senior politician holding liberal views. Shahbaz Bhatti, the minister of minorities, was shot eight times by gunmen...

The American arrested in Pakistan after shooting two men at a crowded traffic stop was part of a covert, CIA-led team of operatives conducting surveillance on militant groups deep inside the country, according to American government officials.Working from a safe house in the eastern city of Lahore, the detained American contractor, Raymond A. Davis...

A provincial court gave the Pakistani government three weeks on Thursday to decide whether the American official in custody for killing two Pakistanis has diplomatic immunity, a decision that amounts to a slap to the United States, the nation's biggest donor and an ally in the fight against terror.The decision came a day after a whirlwind visit by ...

A Pakistani court ordered an American official arrested in the killing of two Pakistanis to be held for another two weeks Friday, transferring him to a crowded city jail while authorities said they would prepare murder charges. The official, Raymond A. Davis, 36, whose arrest has a cast a deep chill over relations between the United States and ...

A teenage suicide bomber walked onto the parade ground of a major military training school in northwest Pakistan on Thursday and blew himself up, killing 27 cadets, officials said.The attack at the Punjab Regiment Center in the city of Mardan was the second by militants against the school in the last 18 months.The attacker on Thursday, a 15-year-ol...

The case of Raymond A. Davis, a former United States Special Forces soldier who is being held in connection with the deaths of two Pakistanis, has stirred a diplomatic furor, sending the precarious relationship between the United States and Pakistan to a new low, both sides say. Mr. Davis, 36, was driving in dense traffic in this city on Jan. 27 wh...

Worries over China's chip ambitions were the main reason US officials blocked the proposed purchase of a controlling stake in Philips.

The rules had called for firms selling IT equipment to Chinese banks to turn over IP and submit source code, amid other demands.

The Obama administration is suspending and, in some cases, cancelling hundreds of millions of dollars of aid to the Pakistani military, in a move to chasten Pakistan for expelling American military trainers and to press its army to fight militants more effectively. Coupled with a statement from the top American military officer last week linking Pa...

Obama administration officials believe that Pakistan's powerful spy agency ordered the killing of a Pakistani journalist who had written scathing reports about the infiltration of militants in the country's military, according to American officials.New classified intelligence obtained before the May 29 disappearance of the journalist, Saleem Shahza...

China has agreed to immediately provide 50 JF-17 fighter jets to Pakistan, a major outcome of a visit by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani to Beijing this week, Pakistani officials said Thursday. China and Pakistan have jointly produced the JF-17 aircraft, but the new planes would be equipped with more sophisticated avionics, the officials said. Th...

Despite mounting pressure from the United States since the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden, Pakistan's army chief, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, seems unlikely to respond to American demands to root out other militant leaders, according to people who have met with him in the last 10 days.While the general does not want to abandon the allianc...

The reputation of the army, the most powerful and privileged force in Pakistan, has been severely undermined by the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden, raising profound questions about its credibility from people at home and from benefactors abroad, including the United States. That American helicopters could fly into Pakistan, carrying a te...

Pakistan has demanded that the United States steeply reduce the number of Central Intelligence Agency operatives and Special Operations forces working in Pakistan, and that it halt CIA drone strikes aimed at militants in northwest Pakistan. The request was a sign of the near collapse of cooperation between the two testy allies. Pakistani and Americ...

A criminal court agreed on Thursday to delay pressing murder charges against the CIA operative, Raymond L Davis, ruling that that lawyers for Mr Davis should have more time to prepare for the case.A Pakistani lawyer appeared on behalf of Mr Davis for the first time in pretrial proceedings held in the Lahore Central jail where he has been held since...

The only Christian minister in the Pakistan government was shot dead by assailants as he left his home in the capital Wednesday morning to attend a cabinet meeting, an attack strikingly similar to the killing two months ago of another senior politician holding liberal views. Shahbaz Bhatti, the minister of minorities, was shot eight times by gunmen...

The American arrested in Pakistan after shooting two men at a crowded traffic stop was part of a covert, CIA-led team of operatives conducting surveillance on militant groups deep inside the country, according to American government officials.Working from a safe house in the eastern city of Lahore, the detained American contractor, Raymond A. Davis...

A provincial court gave the Pakistani government three weeks on Thursday to decide whether the American official in custody for killing two Pakistanis has diplomatic immunity, a decision that amounts to a slap to the United States, the nation's biggest donor and an ally in the fight against terror.The decision came a day after a whirlwind visit by ...

A Pakistani court ordered an American official arrested in the killing of two Pakistanis to be held for another two weeks Friday, transferring him to a crowded city jail while authorities said they would prepare murder charges. The official, Raymond A. Davis, 36, whose arrest has a cast a deep chill over relations between the United States and ...

A teenage suicide bomber walked onto the parade ground of a major military training school in northwest Pakistan on Thursday and blew himself up, killing 27 cadets, officials said.The attack at the Punjab Regiment Center in the city of Mardan was the second by militants against the school in the last 18 months.The attacker on Thursday, a 15-year-ol...

The case of Raymond A. Davis, a former United States Special Forces soldier who is being held in connection with the deaths of two Pakistanis, has stirred a diplomatic furor, sending the precarious relationship between the United States and Pakistan to a new low, both sides say. Mr. Davis, 36, was driving in dense traffic in this city on Jan. 27 wh...