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KABUL: US special forces commander visited a family in rural Afghanistan to plead for forgiveness after finally admitting that his troops killed five innocent people in a raid. Vice-Admiral William H. McRaven went to Paktia to the home of family who lost two sons, two pregnant women and teenage girl when the US special forces [...]
KABUL: A NATO helicopter crashed in Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing one Turkish soldier and injuring three others, a provincial government spokesman told AFP. “One Turkish soldier has been killed and three injured in the helicopter crash today,” said Shahidullah Shahid, spokesman for the Wardak provincial government. The injured were in a critical condition, he said, [...]
ISLAMABAD: Cross-border flow from Afghanistan is hampering the campaign to crush the Taliban and the Pak-Afghan border is a joint responsibility, Director-General Inter-Services Public Relations Major General Athar Abbas said. NATO, therefore, must participate in putting an end to the cross-border flow, Abbas said. There are now 821 Pakistan Army checkpoints on the border and [...]
ISLAMABAD: With its receivables rising beyond Rs105 billion, Pakistan State Oil (PSO) needs at least Rs57 billion between now and April 28 to avoid default on international payments for oil imports and ensure smooth oil supplies in the country. “We have been forced to cut down oil imports and are inviting much lower tenders than [...]
KABUL: Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervaiz Kayani visited the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)
PESHAWAR: Suspected militants armed with guns and rockets on Monday blew up a tanker carrying fuel through Pakistan for NATO troops based in neighbouring Afghanistan, police said. Several armed men lobbed a rocket and then opened fire on the supply convoy on the outskirts of Pakistan’s northwestern city Peshawar, senior police officer Imtiaz Ahmed said. [...]
MARJAH: The Afghan government took official control of the southern Taliban stronghold of Marjah on Thursday, installing an administrator and raising the national flag while US-led troops worked to root out final pockets of militants, reports AP. The ceremony was held in a central market as US Marines and Afghan troops slogged through bomb-laden fields [...]
WASHINGTON: The NATO military alliance and Russia face a common threat emanating from the Pak-Afghan border and have agreed to make joint efforts to deal with it, says US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. In a speech at an international seminar in Washington on revising NATO’s mission for the 21st century, Secretary Clinton also urged [...]
WASHINGTON: The United States is not looking to re-open a key military base in Uzbekistan that was shut in 2005 in a diplomatic row, a US envoy said on Sunday as he ended a rapid tour of former Soviet Central Asia. Uzbekistan, which shares a border with Afghanistan, evicted US troops from the Karshi-Khanabad base [...]
KABUL: The Afghan government on Monday strongly condemned a NATO air strike that killed 33 civilians after mistaking them for militants, calling it “unjustifiable”. The air strike on Sunday hit three vehicles of people in Daykundi, which has been carved out of Uruzgan province, after NATO mistook them for militants moving towards their base, NATO [...]
MIRANSHAH: Missiles fired from a US drone aircraft slammed into a militant compound in the northwest tribal belt on Thursday, killing at least four militants, officials said. The attack was the fourth US bombing raid since Sunday in North Waziristan district, and hit a stronghold of the Al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani network, known for staging attacks on [...]
KUNDUZ: Pakistan has captured two “shadow governors” belonging to Afghanistan’s Taliban movement, an Afghan official said on Thursday. The timing of the reported arrests
KUNDUZ: A NATO air strike mistakenly killed seven Afghan police and wounded two others in northern Afghanistan on Thursday, Afghan officials said. “Around 2:30 pm, an Afghan army, police and NATO patrol were attacked by Taliban in Imam Sahib district (in Kunduz province),” Afghan interior ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary told AFP in the capital Kabul. [...]
QUETTA: A NATO supply tanker was partly damaged and its driver received minor injuries when a roadside bomb went off in the Baghbana area of Khuzdar district on Thursday. According to police, the vehicle containing goods for allied forces in Afghanistan was headed towards Chaman from Karachi on the RCD highway when the incident took [...]
WASHINGTON: Following the arrest of the Taliban military chief in Karachi, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday described Pakistan’s cooperation in the war against terror as serving the best interests of both the countries. Also, the official Voice of America radio noted that Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar’s arrest “signals a change in the [...]
KABUL: NATO forces say an airstrike in eastern Afghanistan has killed more than a dozen insurgents near the Pakistani border, reports AP. The military coalition said Wednesday that a NATO patrol saw a group of individuals near the border on Tuesday and identified them as insurgents. The soldiers called in air support and precision-guided munitions [...]
KABUL: As the joint Afghan-NATO assault against Taliban bastion in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province entered its third day Monday, more than three-dozen people have been killed and hundreds of families fled home for safer places. Twenty-seven militants and 12 civilians have been killed and the troops have secured major parts of the restive Marjah and [...]
KABUL: US Marine and Afghan units pressed deeper into the Taliban haven of Marjah on Monday, facing sporadic rocket and mortar fire as they moved through suspected insurgent neighbourhoods on the third day of a Nato offensive to reclaim the southern Afghan town. Convoys, mine-rollers and armoured trucks rolled down unpaved alleys with an escort [...]
KABUL: American, Afghan and British troops seized crucial positions across the Taliban stronghold of Marja on Saturday, encountering intense but sporadic fighting as they began the treacherous ordeal of house-to-house searches. More than 6,000 American, Afghan and British troops came in fast early on Saturday, overwhelming most immediate resistance. But as the troops began to [...]
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