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Pakistani jailed in the US for charges of human smuggling A Pakistani national was sentenced on Tuesday in Columbia to 31 months in prison on a human smuggling charge. Muhammad Abid Hussain, 27, was sentenced by US District Judge John D Bates. On January 31, 2012, a federal jury in Washington, DC found Hussain guilty […]
Apparently crude materialistic interests and political rivalries motivate wars and conflicts initiated in the name of religion and sectarianism. This is as true about the knightly fights as it is about the Afghan jihad launched in the late 70s against Soviet Union. Some believe that the ongoing sectarian terrorism in Pakistan has been the consequence […]
Military checkpost in Lower Kurram attacked by militants Several heavily armed militants stormed a security checkpost in Lower Kurram Agency, resulting in a clash which killed two security personnel and injured two others, while four militants were also killed in retaliation, officials said. The attack took place late Sunday night in the village of […]
US to launch Legal Educators support programme for Afghanistan The State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) announced a $13 million grant to the University of Washington (UW) Law School’s Asian Law Center to continue an innovative legal education program for Afghanistan. The Legal Educators Support Program – Afghanistan (LESPA), administered […]
NATO fuel tanker burns, killing seven in Afghanistan Seven people were burnt to death in southern Afghanistan on Friday when a fuel tanker supplying a NATO base crashed and set their vehicle on fire, officials said. Both the security chief of Panjwayi district in Kandahar and the provincial police chief said there was no insurgent […]
After 2014 no US drone strikes into Pakistan from Afghanistan: Zalmay Rasool Afghanistan’s Foreign Minister Zalmay Rasool said on Thursday that his country would not be used as a launching pad for US drones attacks on neighbouring countries after NATO combat forces leave by the end of 2014. “Afghan soil will not be used against any […]
USA insists India had no role in placing a bounty on Hafiz Saeed’s head Pentagon spokesperson George Little says that groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba remain a threat to people in South Asia and to the US. Speaking to reporters at a press briefing at the Pentagon, Little said that from the US perspective, the Lashkar e Taiba […]
NATO struggling to control threat from insiders in Afghanistan Nato commanders are struggling to contain the damage from a spike in “fratricidal” attacks by Afghan forces, seeking to protect their troops without rupturing a frayed partnership with Kabul. With Afghan soldiers opening fire on their NATO comrades with alarming frequency, US defense officials on Thursday […]
A fresh drone attack kills suspected terrorists in North Waziristan A US drone launched a missile attack on a suspected militant compound in North Waziristan tribal region near the Afghan border early Friday, killing four alleged insurgents, security officials said. The missiles targeted a house in a market area of Miranshah, the main town in […]
Afghanistan decides to quit TAPI project – Pakistan oil and gas news – part 3 Russian expressed its keen interest to finance the billion-dollar IP gas pipeline project, when Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar was on a four-day visit to Moscow in February 2012, however Russian energy giant Gazprom linked this offer with awarding contract […]
Afghanistan decides to quit TAPI project – Pakistan oil and gas news – part 2 An official of the Petroleum Ministry said that under the GSPA Pakistan was likely to pay 70 percent of crude oil price in international market. The federal government has also decided to avail the offer of financial and technical support […]
Afghanistan decides to quit TAPI project – Pakistan oil and gas news – part one ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan has decided to opt out of the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline project and if Afghanistan does, then its share of 500 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd) gas will be distributed between Pakistan zand India. This was stated by […]
