Robert Birsel | Journalist Profiles |

Position: Journalist

Articles

Q+A-What is behind U.S. drone attacks in Pakistan? September 30, 11:10am EDT

(For main story, click on [ID:nISL499996]; for more on Pakistan and Afghanistan, click on [ID:nAFPAK]) Sept 30 (Reuters) - A missile-firing U.S. drone aircraft killed six militants, including some Arabs, on Wednesday in Pakistan's North Waziristan region ... Full Article

U.S. missile strike kills 8 in Pakistan

Suicide bomber kills 18 in Pakistan's Peshawar

Blog Posts

Reforming Pakistan's security agencies

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has put out a paper on the need to reform Pakistan's intelligence agencies just as army chief General Ashfaq Kayani is winning much praise for playing what ... Full Article | Comments [30]

One year on, same questions swirl around Bhutto's murder

The anniversary of Benazir Bhutto's assassination has reminded everyone just how much we still don't know about her killing in a suicide gun and bomb attack in Rawalpindi on Dec. 27, 2007. The same ... Full Article | Comments [8]

U.S. groups urges civilian control for Pakistan's ISI

Members of the Pakistan Policy Working Group, a bipartisan U.S. group of a about a dozen experts on U.S.-Pakistan relations, have been in Islamabad, presenting their recommendations on the direction they ... Full Article | Comments [32]