The meeting between David Cameron and President Zardari of Pakistan has ended with warm words, blogs Jonathan Rugman, but what is an agreement on combatting terrorism with Mr Zardari worth?
Islamic charities are on the ground providing aid in flood-hit Pakistan, but there is still widespread devastation as the floods spread south, writes Jonathan Miller from the country.
Jon Snow
Yesterday in Downing Street I asked Gordon Brown whether Saudi Arabia is still funding the Taliban. I was attending a news conference he was hosting with Pakistan’s President Zardari. Mr Brown did not address my specific question. Sidestepping the Saudi aspect, he described the MI6 financial units that are now hard at work tracking Taliban…
Jets and helicopters are bombing Taliban forces in Pakistan’s Swat valley and the timing can hardly be coincidental. Thousands – possibly hundreds of thousands – of Pakistanis could be fleeing their homes this week onwards, as their President, Asif Ali Zardari, is in Washington trying to convince lawmakers he is serious about taking on Taliban…
It is hard to say which meeting is more important: Obama’s meeting with the president of Afghanistan or with the president of Pakistan. For it is becoming increasingly clear that Obama’s foreign policy reputation – indeed his presidency – will depend upon success in what US officials call the “Af-Pak” region, in much the same…