A roadside bomb killed four American soldiers in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday — new evidence of rising violence in a region where clashes and attacks in the first two months of 2009 more than doubled from the same period a year ago.
The spike in violence along the border is an early indication that roadside bombs [...]

Pakistan says it supports U.S. President Barack Obama’s order to close the U.S. military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba within one year.
A Foreign Ministry statement Saturday says the decision to shut the center adds, what it calls, “the much needed moral dimension in dealing with terrorism.”
According to a list compiled by the Washington Post, [...]

The only surviving suspect in last month’s attacks in Mumbai has written a letter to the Pakistan High Commission, or embassy, seeking legal aid, CNN’s sister network in India reported Saturday, quoting a Mumbai police official.
nvestigators said that Mohammad Ajmal Kasab is from Faridkot village in the Okara district of Pakistan’s Punjab province and that [...]