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MOSCOW: Normally the formality of European diplomacy would be shattered if, say, an ambassador suggested that his country might kick its opponents’ posterior. But when the remark comes from Dmitri O. Rogozin, Russia’s bombastic ambassador to NATO, it tends to elicit at most a cringe. Even so, when Mr. Rogozin took to his Twitter account [...]
KABUL: US led NATO troops launched an offensive today against the Taliban’s last big stronghold in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, a test of President Barack Obama’s troop surge strategy. The assault, the first since he ordered extra troops to Afghanistan in December, is the start of a campaign to impose government control on rebel-held areas this [...]
CHAMAN: Three Pakistani soldiers were killed and two others were injured when a truck carrying supplies for NATO forces crashed into a Pakistan Army vehicle near Chaman on Friday. Local police said that a truck carrying supplies for NATO forces in Afghanistan crashed into a military vehicle near the border. Police official Zia Mandokhel said [...]
KHYBER: A powerful explosion ripped through container carrying supplies for US-led NATO forces in Afghanistan, near the Pak-Afghan border on Monday. A bomb was planted inside the container by militants, local officials told our correspondent. While the container was completely destroyed by the explosion, no injuries were sustained by the driver and other vehicles also [...]
WASHINGTON: US and NATO forces are set to launch in southern Afghanistan this week a major offensive being described as the biggest assault of its kind since Vietnam four decades ago. “Our basic strategy is, is to reverse the momentum of the Taliban; to deny them control of population centres and production centres,” said US [...]
ISTANBUL: The top US and NATO commander in Afghanistan said on Thursday the security situation there remained serious but was not deteriorating, giving a more upbeat view than from other US military and intelligence officials, reports Reuters. Speaking before a meeting of NATO defence ministers in Istanbul, General Stanley McChrystal also expressed confidence that Afghan [...]
ISLAMABAD: Despite Pakistan’s refusal to let Indian products be taken to Afghanistan through its territory under the Afghan Transit Trade (ATT), Indian goods are being taken to the country via Pakistan under the tags of ISAF and NATO. Documentary evidence placed in the National Assembly library may have failed to catch the attention of honourable [...]
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Potential to generate 50,000mw electricity from Thar coal field for 800 years
