Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani met the visiting Afghan President Hamid Karzai here on Thursday and offered training to Afghan forces in Pakistan.
According to official sources, the Army Chief discussed the current security situation of the region with the Afghan President. The meeting also discussed…
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The Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit said Wednesday Pakistan has formally asked Afghan government to train their National Army, adding, India is meddling into affairs of Pakistan through Afghanistan, a private TV reported.
He vowed to take up this issue with Afghan President Hamid Karzai during his official visit to…
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LOS ANGELES (Agencies) – The top US diplomat in Pakistan has said that the US is gathering information with Pakistan and other governments to identify and locate people holding US passports who are receiving terrorist training then legally returning to commit violent acts.
The envoy said the Obama administration does…
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A top U.S. diplomat in Pakistan said on Friday that the Obama administration does not know how many Americans might have disappeared overseas to train with al-Qaida or other terrorist groups, but the number is not thought to be large.
Speaking to the Pacific Council on International Policy in Los…
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An Azerbaijani Su-25 fighter jet crashed during a training exercise in the west of the ex-Soviet republic on Wednesday, killing its pilot, the defence ministry said. The accident occurred at about 5:00 pm local time (1800 PST) during a training flight over the Shamkir region near Azerbaijan’s border with Georgia,…
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Two South Korean fighter jets apparently crashed into a mountain Tuesday during a routine training flight near their east coast base, military officials said. The F-5s with a total of three pilots aboard went missing five minutes after leaving base at Gangneung 160 kilometres (100 miles) east of Seoul, the…
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Two South Korean fighter jets apparently crashed into a mountain Tuesday during a routine training flight near their east coast base, military officials said. The F-5s with a total of three pilots aboard went missing five minutes after leaving base at Gangneung 160 kilometres (100 miles) east of Seoul, the…
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When I was elected president more than a year ago, Pakistan was in a grave condition, strained by terrorism and a ravaged economy. Countering the effects of a decade of dictatorship requires bold actions, some of which are unpopular. I am working with parliament to run a country, not a…
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Five important militant commanders including Maulvi Alim Binori and Maulana Shamsul Haq were killed in Madain area of Swat tehsil of Behrain, a private TV reported Monday.
According to government sources, the security forces and the extremists exchanged fire at 4:20am today’s morning, where all five extremists were killed and…
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Hurricane-force winds, surging seas and driving rain lashed western Europe on Sunday, leaving at least 16 people dead and more than a million households without power. Dubbed “Xynthia”, the Atlantic storm crashed against the western coasts of France and Spain overnight, bringing with it a band of foul weather stretching…
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WASHINGTON (Agencies) – Former officials familiar with the deal say that Blackwater is likely to get a Defence Department-issued contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars to train and mentor Afghan police.
Blackwater has contracts to do intelligence support, counter-narcotics support (with the Drug Enforcement Administration) and work on the…
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LAHORE – Lahore High Court Chief Justice Khawaja Muhammad Sharif on Friday restrained the federal and Punjab governments from extraditing five captured Afghan Taliban leaders to America or any other country besides seeking replies by March 15 on the issue of handing them over to America.
These Taliban leaders are…
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ISLAMABAD – Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Thursday told the National Assembly that Government had signed a Memorandum of Intent (MOI) with the United States in September 2004 to impart training to Pakistani law enforcement agencies to combat terrorism.
No foreign agency has been hired for the training of law…
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Hopes faded Wednesday for up to 70 people buried by a landslide that killed at least 16 in Indonesia, as more rain and fears of fresh slippages forced rescuers to suspend their search. Stunned villagers stood by in silence as bodies were dug out of the sticky clay that crushed…
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Sheikh Rashid Ahmed has alleged rigging during the polling today at NA-55 in Rawalpindi. However, PML-N rejected all the allegations. Reportedly, the turnout remained very low initially owing to rain, however, a huge number of people turned up at the polling stations as soon as the weather got improved. Meanwhile,…
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ISLAMABAD – The visiting top US General David Petraeus, who also commands Bahrain-based US Central Command, discussed a number of issues with Pakistani political leadership when he met separately with President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani here on Monday.
Diplomatic as well as official sources…
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ISLAMABAD – Five official drivers of the Presidency, who had been sent on a special training programme last year, have managed to slip in the United State (US), TheNation has learnt reliably.
A credible source told this scribe that the Presidency had sent five drivers including Rafiq Khattak, Shakir…
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