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Little impact on USA’s air war after Shamsi air base The US decision to vacate a remote base used for staging drone flights directed at militants will have little impact on the American air campaign, a senior Pakistani military source said on Monday, but the move is a big political win for Pakistan. US personnel […]
US military vacates Shamsi Air Base before the deadline The last cargo aircraft to take back American personnel and equipment from Shamsi airbase sits on the tarmac in Washuk district, watching the Balochistan Frontier Constabulary takeover the vacated guard positions as the clock ticks down to the eviction deadline, now only hours away. Pakistani security […]
NATO oil tankers torched in Quetta, Pakistan At least 42 NATO oil tankers and containers were torched after armed men fired two rockets at them in the Kharotabad area of Quetta on Thursday, December 08, 2011. As many as 32 oil tankers and 10 containers, carrying fuel and military hardware for NATO forces in Afghanistan, […]
Karzai blames Lashkar-e-Jhangvi for Kabul bomb blast Afghan President Hamid Karzai Wednesday blamed the the sectarian militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) for a bomb at a Kabul shrine which killed 55 people, demanding justice from Pakistan, his spokesman said. The comments are likely to antagonise further already tense relations with Islamabad, which boycotted Monday’s Bonn conference […]
Pakistan sabotaging negotiations with Taliban: Hamid Karzai Afghan President Hamid Karzai has accused Pakistan, which is boycotting the international Bonn conference on Afghanistan, of sabotaging all negotiations with the Taliban. “Up until now, they have sadly refused to back efforts for negotiations with the Taliban,” Karzai said. The Bonn meeting will seek to chart a […]
Pakistan chooses not to participate in a joint NATO investigation US on Friday said that Pakistan had been invited to join an investigation into the cross border North Atlantic Treaty Organistaion (NATO) bombing of a Pakistani check post. However, Pakistan had elected not to participate in the investigation. A NATO air strike – which Pakistan […]
Army Officers will no longer have to follow chain of command to retaliate to NATO attacks in future: Pakistan Army In a development that pushes US-Pakistan relations further into the realm of uncertainty, the army has authorised its local commanders deployed near the Afghan border to retaliate to any future incursions by NATO forces. The […]
NATO did not attack Pakistan post on purpose: US General US top military officer on Wednesday strongly rejected accusations from Pakistan that NATO deliberately killed 24 Pakistani soldiers last weekend. General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the US military’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that he was trying to discuss the incident with Pakistan behind closed […]
Evacuation of Shamsi air base not to hamper CIA drone strikes US drone raids targeting militants in Pakistan will not be jeopardized if Islamabad does indeed expel Americans from a key air base, officials and a former intelligence officer said. Angered over a NATO air attack on Saturday that left 24 Pakistani soldiers dead, Islamabad […]
NATO to investigate Pakistan check post attack by its helicopters: NATO Commander in Afghanistan The US commander in Afghanistan on Saturday promised a full investigation after Pakistan said a NATO air strike killed at least 23 soldiers, sending his condolences over any troops who may have died. “This incident has my highest personal attention and […]
Lahore High Court bars Pakistan Television from finalising deal with Ten Sports Lahore High Court has stopped the Pakistan Television Corporation (PTC) from finalising a deal with Ten Sports for sub-licensing rights to telecast International Cricket Council (ICC) Cricket events from 2012 to 2015. Justice Umar Ata Bandial issued the order on a petition filed […]
Jamaatud Dawa stages protest for granting India the status of Most-Favoured Nation On Thursday, November 24, Jamaatud Dawa (JD), the banned group said to be behind the Mumbai terrorist attack of November 2008, staged a rally in Lahore demanding that the government withdraw its decision to grant India most-favoured nation (MFN) status as a trading […]
