Hints and tips:
...During a visit to Islamabad this month, Hillary Clinton, secretary of state, compared Pakistan’s relationship to the Haqqanis to keeping “snakes in your backyard”....
...Rarely has a visiting American official, much less a secretary of state, reached out to speak directly to such a wide cross-section of Pakistanis....
...Beijing also muscled up to Pakistan in 2007 after attacks on Chinese citizens in Islamabad, which contributed to President Pervez Musharraf laying siege to the Red Mosque....
...The group’s discussions this week with Mr Bush and, by video-link, with Britain’s Tony Blair have been bracketed with meetings with Bill Clinton, Richard Holbrooke, Warren Christopher and just about everyone...
...The rejection by two of the EU’s six founding members shattered the dreams of those who envisioned the creation of a United States of Europe....
...A suicide bomber drove a vehicle into the Egyptian Embassy compound in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing at least 16 and injuring 60 people....
...’ to the United States’ war on terror.”...
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