Posts tagged as: Afghanistan

Pakistan, Afghanistan for joint peace efforts

Pakistan, Afghanistan for joint peace efforts Pakistan on Wednesday said it had not hidden agenda in Afghanistan and aimed at enhancing bilateral goodwill and all-round cooperation between the two brotherly states. After a leaked-out NATO report that accused Islamabad of secretly supporting Taliban in Afghanistan, top level talks held in Kabul between top Pakistani officials […]

Pakistan fighter jets pound Taliban in Orakzai

Pakistan fighter jets pound Taliban in Orakzai On Wednesday, February 01, 2012 fighter jets from the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) pounded Taliban compounds in northwestern tribal area, killing at least 20 Taliban, sources revealed. The jets targeted hideouts in the tribal Orakzai district and at least four compounds were hit, in the latest surge of […]

Islamabad assisting Afghan Taliban, secret Nato report

Islamabad assisting Afghan Taliban, secret Nato report Nato has once again alleged Pakistan security services of assisting Afghan Taliban. Islamabad’s secret links with the Taliban’s have been claimed by Nato in a leaked secret document which was seen by BBC and The Times. In the secret  “State of the Taliban” report, Nato has claimed that […]

NATO dismisses reports of an alliance between Taliban and Pakistan

A spokesman for the NATO-led coalition on Wednesday confirmed the existence of a report that summarizes the views of Taliban detainees who said that they are winning the war thanks to cooperation from some Afghan government officials and soldiers with active support from Pakistan’s intelligence service. But the official, Lt. Col Jimmie E. Cummings of […]

Leaked NATO report accused Pakistan of aiding Taliban

The Pakistani security services are directly aiding the Taliban in Afghanistan and have direct influence over its top leadership, a leaked out NATO report claimed on Tuesday. The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) revealed the confidential NATO report that was derived from thousands of interrogations of insurgents captivated by allied forces. The report alleged that Pakistan’s […]

Marc Grossman visions warm relationship between Pakistan and US in coming days

Marc Grossman visions warm relationship between Pakistan and US in coming days Calling the parliamentary review of Islamabad’s ties with the US as Pakistan’s right as a sovereign country, US special envoy Marc Grossman has expressed hope that the two countries will be able to forge a wide-ranging relationship based on mutual interests and respect. […]

President Obama confirms drone strike missions into Pakistan

US President Barack Obama has confirmed that unmanned drones regularly strike suspected militants in Pakistan’s tribal areas. Mr Obama called the strikes a "targeted focused effort at people who are on a list of active terrorists". The US does not routinely speak publicly about drone operations. Mr Obama made his comments during an hour-long video […]

U.S State Department Okays early French withdrawal from Afghanistan

The State Department raised no resistance Friday to France’s announcement to pull its troops from Afghanistan in 2013, a year ahead of schedule. The move was not abrupt and been coordinated with NATO, the Afghan government and the United States, a State Department spokeswoman said. “What we are gratified by is that this was not […]

Obama verifies US drone attacks in Pakistan

Obama verifies US drone attacks in Pakistan On Monday, President of the United States Obama verified that the US drones have hit Taliban and Al Qaeda members in Pakistan. Previously, these attacks were not officially accepted. He confirmed that most of these attacks took place in Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). “For the most […]

America officially acknowledges US drone strikes in Pakistan

America officially acknowledges US drone strikes in Pakistan President Barack Obama offered a dynamic defense of the use of drone strikes to kill Al Qaeda operatives and other militants in Pakistan’s tribal areas, officially confessing the CIA drone program, which had not been publically acknowledged before this. Obama said he believed that they had to be judicious in how they […]

Afghanistan Govt and Taliban planning to hold talks in Saudi Arabia

Afghanistan Govt and Taliban planning to hold talks in Saudi Arabia Afghan government officials and representatives of the country’s former Taliban rulers are to hold peace talks in Saudi Arabia, a Riyadh-based Afghan diplomat revealed on Monday. “An Afghan government delegation and a Taliban delegation will hold talks in Saudi Arabia,” he said without giving […]

PM Gilani confident that Army will not overthrow the government

PM Gilani confident that Army will not overthrow the government Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani expressed that Army wants stability in the country and is in the support of democracy, therefore there is no chance that Army will act outside the constitutional limits and overthrow the government. At the annual meeting of the World Economic […]

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