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Russia offers NATO life line for sending supplies into Afghanistan Russia’s foreign minister on Wednesday endorsed a proposal to allow NATO use of a southern Russian air base as a hub for transport of supplies to Afghanistan and suggested it was premature to withdraw troops from the war-torn country. Sergei Lavrov said the proposal to […]
The US soldier suspected of killing 16 Afghan civilians in a shooting rampage could face the death penalty if convicted, US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said Monday. The Pentagon chief told reporters aboard his plane enroute to Kyrgyzstan that the suspect in the Afghan shooting spree would be brought to justice under the US military […]
Taliban vow revenge for Kandahar massacre The Taliban on Monday vowed revenge for a US soldier’s killing spree of 16 villagers in Afghanistan that has sparked a new crisis in already fragile Afghan-American relations. The US soldier walked off his base, heavily armed and with night vision equipment, and broke into three village homes before […]
A human rights group and a law firm took legal action Monday against the British government, accusing it of passing on intelligence to assist US covert drone attacks in Pakistan. The London-based charity Reprieve and the law firm Leigh Day & Co. are filing papers to the High Court claiming that civilian staff at Britain’s […]
General James Mattis says Pak-US relationship holds paramount importance Washington, March 12: General James Mattis, the Central Command Head of US, said that the relationship is very important especially in the security efforts of America in Afghanistan. He acknowledged that PAK-US ties hold paramount importance in an effort to restore peace in the region. While […]
Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik in quite an audacious move revealed details of the Kohistan carnage, saying the investigations into incident hint towards the involvement of certain banned organizations. Malik also revealed that the probe into the incident was carried out by two separate teams. While heading a meeting in Gilgit-Baltistan, he claimed that five […]
Quashing rumors of another extension for Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha, Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani on Friday appointed Lt General Zaheerul Islam the Director General of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). After serving as the Commander of the V Corps, a key military administrative unit that is based in Karachi, Lieutenant-General Zaheerul Islam will […]
‘Will you defend Pakistan’, this query was clearly peps us at the official website of Difa-e-Pakistan Council (DPC). So what does the DPC want? The ostensible reason for coming together is to defend Pakistan. At the time, we should eliminate our security forces, as the DPC is capable enough to save the country. The newly […]
Blast in Afghanistan leaves six British soldiers dead Lashkar Gah: A blast in Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan claimed six soldiers’ lives here today. With the recent deaths, the British toll in Afghanistan has reached to 404 since 2001’s US-led invasion in the region. According to the news, five of the killed soldiers belonged to 3rd Battalion […]
Pakistan will avail itself of all available opportunities including Iran-Pakistan gap pipeline project to overcome its energy crisis, Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said on Monday. While addressing a news conference, the minister in her rare appearance, clarified Pakistan would not depend on anyone’s solution but would also pursue the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India gas pipeline project, besides […]
A council of Afghanistan’s top religious leaders on Friday called on the U.S. to end night searches and hand over its prisons, saying that if Afghans had been in charge, Muslim holy books from a detention centre library would never have been burned at an American base. In a statement issued after a meeting with […]
A suicide bomber attacked the headquarters of a rival insurgent group in northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing 23 of its supporters in an outbreak of factional fighting, an official said. Elsewhere in the Afghan border region, fighting between security forces and militants claimed the lives of 41 others, an especially deadly day that showed the […]
