Nato’s beleaguered Afghan war continued to spill over into Pakistan this week, reigniting tensions between the US and the leaders of its client state.

The recent floods have caused devastation in Pakistan, leading to an estimated 20 million people losing their homes and livelihoods.

Riaz Ahmed assesses the implications of the West's failure in Afghanistan for Pakistan

Hotel workers at the Pearl Continental Hotel in Karachi, Pakistan have been occupying the hotel for three weeks in protest at the sacking of over 100 employees across Pakistan by the chain

Afghanistan-based US predators carried out a record number of 12 deadly missile strikes in the tribal areas of Pakistan in January 2010, of which 10 went wrong and failed to hit their targets, killing 123 innocent Pakistanis.

The Pakistani rulers are in tatters. They are being attacked in their offices, the barricaded headquarters, that is, almost everywhere they hide. The imposing structures from where they rule stand today as prisons of a bygone power. The rulers are forced to sneak-a-peak and disappear again, writes Pakistani socialist Riaz Ahmed.

As violence escalates in Pakistan, Geoff Brown interviews Riaz Ahmed of the International Socialists of Pakistan about the background to the crisis

A. Khan has just returned to Ireland from the Swat Valley region of Pakistan. Here he exposes the simplistic myths that the region is in the grip of ‘dangerous extremists’ like the Taliban.

By Julien Mercille

Over the last three years, American drone attacks have killed 687 innocent Pakistani civilians and 14 al-Qaeda members.

Those who cherished hopes that Barack Obama accession to the US presidency would herald a change of direction from the years of Bush, will be sadly disillusioned by the his actions over Afghanistan.