A helicopter operated by the US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has crashed in Afghanistan’s southeastern province of Paktika. The chopper was destroyed Thursday morning after it went down in Nikah district of the province, a Press TV correspondent reported. A recovery force was sent to the site of the crash to retrieve the wreckage [...]
WASHINGTON: As President Barack Obama prepares to make a major address on the tumultuous changes spreading throughout the Middle East, a new survey finds that America’s image in Arab and Muslim nations has further eroded. The survey, conducted before Osama bin Laden’s killing, shows that only 11 per cent people in Pakistan view the United [...]
Intrusion into North Waziristan on Afghan border prompts exchange of fire and raises tensions with west A Nato helicopter based in Afghanistan intruded into Pakistan’s North Waziristan region on Tuesday, wounding two troops, local intelligence officials said, adding to tensions between Islamabad and the west. “It happened early morning,” a Pakistani intelligence official in the [...]
Senior politicians vow to review ties to America after discord over drone attacks and assassination of al-Qaida leader The security of Nato’s main supply line into Afghanistan came under threat on Saturday as Pakistani parliamentarians voted to review all aspects of their relationship with the US amid worsening political fallout from the raid that killed [...]
No group immediately claimed responsibility, but militants have pledged to avenge Osama bin Laden’s killing, and many have been expecting reprisal strikes on Pakistani territory Twin explosions struck a paramilitary training centre in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 68 people, in the bloodiest attack in the country since a US raid killed al-Qaida [...]
The Taliban have declared categorically that they will fight on as long as any US forces remain in Afghanistan The most important result of Osama bin Laden’s death is likely to be a new US approach to Afghanistan. President Obama is now essentially in a position to “declare victory and get out”, without risking too [...]
Exclusive: British commander voices fears that Taliban will exploit power vacuum in Afghanistan after west quits The west must state clearly that it will not abandon Afghanistan after the handover of security to local forces in 2014 or risk further fighting in the region from an emboldened Taliban, the commander of British forces in the [...]
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari says non-UN-sanctioned US drone strikes in his country are severely harming Pakistan-US ties, insisting that the drone bombings undermine anti-terror efforts. Zardari made the remarks on Tuesday in a meeting with US Ambassador Cameron Munter in Islamabad, a day before a visit to the country by Chairman of the US [...]
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I am sure they take pleasure in their sadistic acts in those lands....
