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Pakistan says stop “blame game” at US, Afghan talks
Jun 29th
KABUL: Pakistan on Tuesday called for the “blame game” to stop as the United States, Afghanistan and Pakistan met to discuss security in the region amid a Taliban insurgency and heightened tensions over cross border shelling. President Hamid Karzai has condemned the firing of 470 rockets from Pakistan into Afghanistan over the past three weeks. [...]
US takes interest in Pak-India talks
Jun 27th
ISLAMABAD: The United States has sought Pakistan’s official position with regard to recently concluded foreign secretary level talks between Pakistan and India. Washington has already welcomed the holding of the talks and its outcome. US ambassador in Pakistan Cameron Munter who left for Washington last week has returned to Islamabad after having consultations with the [...]
Afghan hospital suicide bomb toll rises to 38
Jun 27th
KABUL: The toll from a suicide car bombing at an Afghan hospital rose to 38 Sunday, a local official said, days after President Barack Obama said 10,000 US troops would leave the country this year.
Many of the victims in Logar province, about 75 kilom…
The Future of Afghanistan – And America
Jun 26th
In Speech On Afghanistan, Obama Turns To The Battle For America’s Future
By MICHAEL SCHERER, TIME, June 22, 2011
President Obama arranged for the television networks to break from local programing Wednesday so he could announce his decision to withdraw 30,000 troops from Afghanistan by next summer, and transition out of combat there by 2014. But the Americans who tuned in got to watch a
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.
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…
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…
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 soldiers this year, only as a symbolic step which will never satisfy the war-weary international community or the American people,” it [...]
Many Al-Qaeda members killed with Pak help: Obama
Jun 23rd
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama said Wednesday that Pakistan had helped in breaking the back of Al-Qaeda but the US would not rest until the terrorist network was completely dismantled.
He said information seized during the raid that killed Osam…
