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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 […]
Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani Wednesday said the ongoing Parliamentary review process would bring transparency and credibility to the rules of engagement with the US, NATO and the ISAF. Talking to the US Deputy Secretary of State Thomas Nides here at the Prime Minister House, Gilani said relations with US must be based on […]
Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Tuesday questioned on what basis the United States slapped a $10 million bounty on the founder of a Pakistani militant group, saying it had not been officially informed of the decision. “We have not received any official communication in this regard,” Malik told the private Geo television. The reward for […]
NATO supply lines may not open anytime soon The Prime Minister of Pakistan Yousuf Raza Gilani has recently given a statement in which he expressed the stance of the government ruled by the Pakistan People’s Party that the decision on the reopening of the NATO supply routes through Pakistan will not be taken in a […]
PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif told US Ambassador Cameron Munter on Friday that a continuation of drone attacks would seriously undermine Pakistan-US relations. Mr Munter called on Mr Sharif after the latter had presided over a consultative meeting of his party. When the ambassador raised the issue of PML-N’s objections to some of the recommendations made […]
NATO supply routes may open in case US stops drone attacks on Pakistani soil A Pakistani parliamentary panel that framed recommendations for resetting ties with the US is considering a proposal to link the reopening of NATO supply routes to the ending of American drone strikes in the country’s tribal belt. The Parliamentary Committee on […]
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 […]
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said Iran strongly opposes any foreign intervention in Syria’s conflict and will defend Damascus so it can continue “resistance” against Israel, his official website reported on Thursday. Khamenei, the Islamic Republic’s highest authority, made the comments during a meeting with visiting Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan in Mashhad. The […]
Pakistan called Thursday for open dialogue with the United States even before parliament wraps up a protracted debate on repairing an anti-terror alliance that nearly ruptured over a series of crises. “Pakistan attaches enormous value to its contacts with the US,” said foreign ministry spokesman Abdul Basit, just days after the highest-level contacts between the […]
Gilani and Obama make a vow to strengthen relations between the two nations The Prime Minister of Pakistan Yousuf Raza Gilani and the President of the United States met recently in order to talk about the relations between both the countries. The meeting took place in Seoul, where the Nuclear Security Summit was being held. […]
Thousands of people from right-wing, religious and banned organisations demonstrated in Islamabad on Tuesday, calling on Pakistan not to reopen its Afghan border to NATO and US supplies. Hafiz Saeed, the head of banned charity Jamaat-ud-Dawa seen as a front for the Lashkar-e-Taiba terror group blamed for the 2008 Mumbai attacks addressed the heavily guarded […]
Gilani, Obama vow to safeguard anti-terror alliance The Prime Minister of Pakistan Yusuf Raza Gilani and the President of United States of America Barack Obama on Tuesday vowed to rescue the troubled anti-terror alliance between the two countries, which has reached its all-time low over the past 10 months of recriminations and mistrust. The two […]
