The New York Times Jane Perlez

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  Concern Grows in US Over China's Drive to Make Chips

  Worries over China's chip ambitions were the main reason US officials blocked the proposed purchase of a controlling stake in Philips.

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  China Suspends Rules on Tech Companies Serving Banks

  The rules had called for firms selling IT equipment to Chinese banks to turn over IP and submit source code, amid other demands.

• US to suspend millions in aid to the Pakistani military

  The Obama administration is suspending and, in some cases, cancelling hundreds of millions of dollars of aid to the Pakistani military, in a move to chasten Pakistan for expelling American military trainers and to press its army to fight militants more effectively. Coupled with a statement from the top American military officer last week linking Pa...

• US believes ISI ordered murder of reporter Saleem Shahzad

  Obama administration officials believe that Pakistan's powerful spy agency ordered the killing of a Pakistani journalist who had written scathing reports about the infiltration of militants in the country's military, according to American officials.New classified intelligence obtained before the May 29 disappearance of the journalist, Saleem Shahza...

• China gives Pakistan 50 fighter jets

  China has agreed to immediately provide 50 JF-17 fighter jets to Pakistan, a major outcome of a visit by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani to Beijing this week, Pakistani officials said Thursday. China and Pakistan have jointly produced the JF-17 aircraft, but the new planes would be equipped with more sophisticated avionics, the officials said. Th...

• Pak army chief balks at US pressure to find other terrorists

  Despite mounting pressure from the United States since the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden, Pakistan's army chief, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, seems unlikely to respond to American demands to root out other militant leaders, according to people who have met with him in the last 10 days.While the general does not want to abandon the allianc...

• Pakistani army, shaken by raid, faces new scrutiny

  The reputation of the army, the most powerful and privileged force in Pakistan, has been severely undermined by the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden, raising profound questions about its credibility from people at home and from benefactors abroad, including the United States. That American helicopters could fly into Pakistan, carrying a te...

• Pak tells USA it must cut CIA activities

  Pakistan has demanded that the United States steeply reduce the number of Central Intelligence Agency operatives and Special Operations forces working in Pakistan, and that it halt CIA drone strikes aimed at militants in northwest Pakistan. The request was a sign of the near collapse of cooperation between the two testy allies. Pakistani and Americ...

• American held in Pakistan shootings worked with the CIA

  The American arrested in Pakistan after shooting two men at a crowded traffic stop was part of a covert, CIA-led team of operatives conducting surveillance on militant groups deep inside the country, according to American government officials.Working from a safe house in the eastern city of Lahore, the detained American contractor, Raymond A. Davis...

• Video hints at executions by Pakistanis in uniforms

  An Internet video showing men in Pakistani military uniforms executing six young men in civilian clothes has heightened concerns about unlawful killings by Pakistani soldiers supported by the United States, American officials said.The authenticity of the five-and-a-half-minute video, which shows the killing of the six men -- some of whom appear to ...

• Headley's terror trail to Pak and Europe

  Charged with helping plan the attacks in Mumbai, Headley moved effortlessly between the US, Pakistan and India for nearly seven years.