SHINGTON, D.C. — Largely considered untested when elected, Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari has been engulfed by crisis since he took office a few months ago. A Gallup Poll of Pakistan in October, before the latest crisis with India, revealed the new leader had failed, as of that point, to earn more support than his predecessor: Zardari’s 19% job approval rating was on par with the 17% approval that Pakistanis gave an unpopular President Pervez Musharraf in June. Read the full story

India handed over to Pakistan on Monday what it termed evidence of the Mumbai terror attacks. The ‘information dossier’ was first handed over to Pakistan’s High Commissioner Shahid Malik by Indian Secretary for External Affairs Shivshankar Menon in New Delhi.

Then the Indian high commissioner met the Pakistan foreign secretary in Islamabad and handed over an information dossier on the status of investigations thus far by India into the Mumbai terrorist attacks, the Foreign Ministry said. Read the full story