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30 die in Afghan suicide car bomb: official
Jun 25th
PULI ALAM: Thirty people were killed in a suicide car bombing Saturday in Afghanistan”s Logar province, just south of the capital Kabul, a provincial official said.
30 die in Afghan hospital car bomb: officials
Jun 25th
PULI ALAM: Thirty people were killed in a suicide car bombing Saturday targeting a hospital in Afghanistan”s Logar province, just south of the capital Kabul, a provincial official said.
“A suicide car bomb attacker targeted a hospital in Azra distri…
US grounds fleet of F-22 fighter jets
Jun 25th
WASHINGTON: The US Air Force has grounded its entire fleet of F-22 fighters, the most sophisticated combat aircraft in the world, after problems emerged with the plane”s oxygen supply, officials said Friday.
The radar-evading F-22 Raptors have be…
Congress rejects US military action in Libya
Jun 25th
Lawmakers voted 123-295 to defeat the measure and moved to take up a companion resolution.
Blight hits Afghan opium production: UN
Jun 25th
UNITED NATIONS: A plant disease devastated Afghan opium production last year but Myanmar is seeing a worrying drug boom, the UN anti-narcotics agency warned Thursday.
With the cocaine market in decline, Peru is now on a par with Colombia as the world’…
Hillary says US wont continue Pak aid without change
Jun 24th
WASHINGTON: While US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday the US could slow down military aid to Pakistan, unless it took unspecified steps to help the United States, President Barack Obama vowed a day earlier his country will insist Pa…
Services of Pak be acknowledged in war against terror: Petraeus
Jun 24th
WASHINGTON: US General David Petraeus has stated that service of Pakistan should be acknowledged in war against terror, Geo News reported on Friday.
In his statement before US Senate Committee for Intelligence, Petraeus stated that thousands of army p…
Pakistan saw terrorism as somebody elses problem: Obama
Jun 24th
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama on Thursday said Pakistan had always seen terrorism as either a problem for somebody else or had seen elements of Taliban as a hedge in terms of their influence in Afghanistan, Geo News reported.
But if it is ha…
Taliban view troops withdrawal as symobolic step
Jun 23rd
KABUL: The Taliban dismissed President Barack Obama”s announcement of US troop withdrawals from Afghanistan as “only as a symbolic step,” in a statement released Thursday.
The Taliban “considers this announcement, which currently withdraws 10,000 so…
Army would return after completing job: COAS
Jun 23rd
WANA: Army Chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kiyani said Thursday that the army is playing an active role in eliminating terrorists from the area and would leave the area once the job is done.
Army Chief visited Kot Kai, Changmala and Wana and inaugurated t…
