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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…
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…
Rangers men fail to arrange counsel
Jun 23rd
KARACHI: The Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Thursday directed four Rangers personnel facing Sarfaraz Shah”s extrajudicial murder charges to arrange counsel for their defence, Geo News reported.
Judge Bashir Ahmed Khoso told the alleged that if they do…
No Honest, Decent Army Officer To Be Tolerated: Kiyani
Jun 23rd
When the news broke of the arrest of a serving brigadier ‘for links with a “terrorist outfit” and that outfit turned out to be Hizb-ul-Tahrir — hardly anything close to “terrorists” — I knew there had to more behind the arrest. The possibility that there was at least one decent officer in the Pakistan army [...]
Al-Qaeda under ”enormous strain”: Obama
Jun 23rd
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama said Wednesday that information seized in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden showed that the Al-Qaeda terror network was under enormous strain.
“Bin Laden expressed concern that Al-Qaeda has been unable …
Obama declares beginning of end of Afghan war
Jun 23rd
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama Wednesday ordered all 33,000 US surge troops home from Afghanistan by next summer and declared the beginning of the end of the war, vowing to turn to nation building at home.
In a watershed moment for American fo…
Domestic support for Pak Army drops: US poll
Jun 23rd
A survey of 3,221 Pakistanis shows 37% of them support military action.
Zardari to discuss US-Pak relations with British PM
Jun 23rd
The President will be travelling to the UK from Tehran.
Obama set to unveil Afghan troop cuts
Jun 23rd
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama will order his promised US troop drawdown from Afghanistan in a primetime address Wednesday, which one official said would likely see 10,000 soldiers called home this year. Obama will stick with his vow to begin pulli…
OBL exit brings no change in Pakistanis opinion: Poll
Jun 23rd
WASHINGTON: Pakistanis opinion about U.S. before and after Osama bin Laden has remained unchanged, according to the PEW Research Centre polls results released. President Zardari popularity among the Pakistani leaders most plummeted and Imran Khans po…
