Pakistan

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This Sunday, May 30, 2010, photograph provided by Dr. Scott Faulkner shows his brother Gary Faulkner at the Denver International Airport en route to Pakistan. (AP Photo/Dr. Scott Faulkner)

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Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, speaks during a press conference in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Saturday, June 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

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Illustration: Pakistan by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

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An American armed with a pistol and a 40-inch sword was detained in northern Pakistan and told investigators he was on a solo mission to kill al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, a police officer said Tuesday, June 15, 2010. (AP Photo/File)

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** FILE ** Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is pictured in March 2003 shortly after his capture during a raid in Pakistan. (AP Photo, File)

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**FILE** Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged Sept. 11 mastermind, is seen shortly after his capture during a raid in Pakistan in March 2003. (Associated Press)

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A Pakistani youth rides a donkey cart loaded with other children, as the sun sets on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, April 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari

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** FILE ** Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (left) looks on as Afghan President Hamid Karzai (second from right) greets Richard C. Holbrooke, the U.S. special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009. (AP Photo/U.S. Embassy)

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U.S. soldiers from the 5th Striker Brigade patrol near the Sari Ghundi village along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border Monday. The administration is preparing benchmarks to test how effective President Obama's strategies are in Afghanistan and Pakistan amid growing skepticism among Democrats about the wars' prognosis and costs. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Richard C. Holbrooke (left), the U.S. envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan meets with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in February 2009 as tensions over civilian casualties strain relations between the two countries. (Associated Press)

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Pakistani officials get ready on Nov. 17, 2008 near Peshawar to escort trucks carrying supplies for NATO and U.S. forces to neighboring Afghanistan through Pakistan's Khyber Pass, an increasingly perilous 30-mile stretch. (Associated Press)

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Madrasa students reading in the library of Jamia Dar-ul-Uloom in Lahore, Pakistan. (Jason Motlagh/The Washington Times)

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** FILE ** Pakistani human rights activists demonstrate outside Parliament in Islamabad in 2008. The brutality of recent "honor killings" and the police response sparked outrage in Pakistan. (Associated Press)

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Pakistani ambassador Husain Haqqani (The Washington Times)

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** FILE ** The battered women at the shelter rely on one another for companionship, having been rejected by their families. A common punishment in Pakistan, should they return home, is being burned with acid. An official at Human Rights Watch stressed that more burn units are critical.

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** FILE ** Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the 19-year-old son of Pakistan's slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, confided to friends in 2008 that he was not ready to take up his mother's political reins. (Associated Press)