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US Central Command urges Pakistan to share maps of its posts near Afghan border The head of the US Central Command is urging Pakistan to share a map of its facilities and installations near the Afghan border to help avert episodes like the one that killed 24 Pakistani forces last month. US Marine Corps General […]
CIA suspends its drone strikes in Pakistan The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has suspended drone missile strikes on gatherings of low-ranking militants in Pakistan due to tensions with that country. The Los Angeles Times reported. Citing unnamed current and former US officials, the newspaper said late Friday the undeclared halt in CIA attacks is […]
Lack of communication and mistrust behind NATO attack: US US Air Force Special Operations Command’s Brigadier General and investigating officer into the NATO airstrike Stephen Clark said lack of trust and series of miscommunications contributed to the NATO attack on November 26, that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers. While briefing reporters at the Pentagon via phone, […]
US could stay in Afghanistan beyond 2014: General Allen The US commander in Afghanistan said in an interview on Wednesday, December 21 that American troops could stay in Afghanistan beyond 2014, the latest signal of a possible open-ended US military role in the country. General John Allen told the New York Times that negotiations with […]
Pakistan should form Afghan policy without putting India and US in the equation: Karzai Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday urged Pakistan not to forge its policy on Afghanistan based on its rivalries with either India or the United States. “We want Pakistan to have an independent policy towards Afghanistan. It should not look at […]
Pakistan inquiry blames Afghan commander for the NATO attacks A Pakistan-led inquiry into the November 26 NATO air strike on Salala military check post, alleged on Monday that a local Afghan army commander was responsible for orchestrating strike, BBC Urdu reported. This was revealed in parts of an investigation report, conducted and handed over by […]
War on Terror to be fought on Pakistan’s terms from here on in: Khar Pakistan will fight the war on terrorism according to its own terms and conditions and not that of the US Congress, Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said on Thursday, December 15, 2011. Speaking to the media outside the Parliament House after […]
USA not to cut civilian aid to Pakistan Amidst deteriorating US-Pakistan relationships, the Obama administration clarified that civilian aid to Pakistan is not being cut and the matter of freezing defence aid to Pakistan is still in the Congress. US State Department Spokesperson Victoria Nuland, during a press briefing in Washington on Tuesday, said: “We […]
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 […]
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 […]
US to keep hands off our Nukes: Pakistan Pakistan sought a firm guarantee from the US that its nuclear arsenal is secure during Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to Islamabad last month. Officials familiar with Clinton’s meetings with Pakistan’s top civilian and military leaders said that concerns about the safety of the country’s nuclear […]
Top militant leader in North Waziristan threatens to break peace pact with Pakistan government The most powerful militant leader in the North Waziristan border region Hafiz Gul Bahadur has threatened to tear up a peace accord and turn his fighters against the government. Bahadur has an unofficial non-aggression pact with the military, focusing instead on […]
