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‘Al Qaeda leadership almost wiped out from Pakistan’: Report
Dec 26th
British officials fear North Africa may become new ‘theatre of jihad’ as senior al Qaeda leaders reach Libya.
Afghan MP among 19 killed in suicide attack
Dec 25th
KABUL: A suicide bomber attacked a funeral in northeastern Afghanistan Sunday, killing at least 19 people includin
US, Pakistan share blame for NATO attack: Reports
Dec 22nd
US Department of Defence says US forces acted in self defense with information available at the time.
Bomb kills 5 Nato soldiers in Afghanistan
Dec 21st
GHAZNI: Taliban bombers killed five Polish soldiers in an attack on their convoy in Afghanistan on Wednesday, the
Karzai urges ‘neighbourly’ relations with Pakistan
Dec 21st
KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday urged Pakistan not to forge its policy on Afghanistan based on its rivalries with either India or the United States. “We want Pakistan to have an independent policy towards Afghanistan. It should not look at Afghanistan based on its relations with India and America. Pakistan should approach us [...]
White House backs Biden’s ‘Taliban-friendly’ statement
Dec 21st
WASHINGTON: The White House on Monday defended Vice President Joe Biden for saying that the Taliban isn’t an enemy of the United States despite the years spent fighting the militant Islamic group that gave a home to Al Qaeda and its leader Usama bin Laden while he plotted the Sept. 11 terror attacks. “It’s only [...]
Abbottabad commission: No one in Pakistan was aware of raid, says Haqqani
Dec 20th
Haqqani says allegation of issuing more than 400 visas was ‘baseless’.
Karzai wants immediate halt to NATO night raids
Dec 20th
Comments come after Nato on Monday defended the operations as the safest way of targeting insurgent leaders.
NATO attack violation of UN charter, Pakistan tells Security Council
Dec 20th
Attack on Pakistan check post a grave incident, says acting permanent representative to UN Raza Bashir Tarar.
America’s Strategic Error ?
Nov 29th
Pakistan has had enoughThe assumption that it has no choice but to obey America may turn out to be a dire strategic error
Simon Tisdall, guardian.co.uk, Sunday 27 November 2011
Readers of Dawn newspaper, commenting online, were in no doubt how the Pakistani government should respond to Saturday’s killing by US forces of 24 soldiers on Pakistan’s side of the Afghan
