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India Abroad
| 11 months ago
Pakistan to Afghanistan on Thursday after authorities in Islamabad [ Images ] lifted a blockade of the vital routes ending a bitter standoff with the United States. Customs officials told the media that three container trucks had crossed through the...
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Pak Tribune
| 11 months ago
Afghan police, army, intelligence agency and the Coalition Forces launched five joint cleanup operations in Baghlan, Jawzjan, Paktika, Kandahar and Farah provinces, killing 61 armed Taliban insurgents over the past 24 hours," the ministry said in a...
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Pak Tribune
| 11 months ago
The international community should cooperate with Afghanistan in realizing the priorities the Afghans have identified, President Hamid Karzai said during talks with a British minister. At a meeting with UK's Secretary of State for International...
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Pak Tribune
| 11 months ago
An Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier opened fire on US troops, wounding five of them in the central province of Maidan Wardak, officials said on Wednesday. Hashamkhel area of Syedabad district, an official said on condition of anonymity. Wali...
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DAWN
| 11 months ago
A pair of trucks carrying Nato supplies crossed into Afghanistan on Thursday, Pakistani customs officials said, the first time in more than seven months that Pakistan has allowed Western nations to use its roads to supply troops in Afghanistan.
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 11 months ago
Afghanistan on Thursday, Pakistani customs officials said, the first time in over seven months that Pakistan has permitted Western nations to use its roads to supply troops in Afghanistan. Customs officials said the container trucks had passed...
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BBC
| 11 months ago
Trucks supplying Nato in Afghanistan crossed the border from Pakistan for the first time in seven months after Islamabad reopened transit routes. Pakistani officials said at least two Nato containers passed through the Chaman border point on Thursday.
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Fiji Times
| 11 months ago
Corporal Taniela Tolevu Rogoiruwai was killed in Afghanistan on June 14, 2010, during a fire-fight with insurgent forces in Nad-e-Ali District in the same province. About 15 men from the same village are in the British Army and the death of Guardsman...
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Pakistan Chronicle
| 11 months ago
Moving supplies to Nato troops in Afghanistan via Central Asia costs three times as much as routes through Pakistan, which Islamabad shut seven months ago in anger, a senior US officer said Wednesday. On the ground, it's almost three times more...
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DAWN
| 11 months ago
Pakistan's main stock market closed down on Wednesday, with investors booking profits after Islamabad and Washington reached an agreement on re-opening routes used to supply Nato troops in Afghanistan, analysts said. The Karachi Stock Exchange...
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Voice of America
| 11 months ago
Afghanistan through Pakistan, following a U.S.-Pakistani deal that ended Islamabad's lengthy blockade. In Pakistan's port city of Karachi, drivers and other workers put once-idle trucks in position to transport supplies. But as the drivers prepared...
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Washington Post
| 11 months ago
A group of Afghan militia troops has joined the Taliban-led insurgents, officials said on Wednesday, apparently the first surrender of its kind by the force created as part of a U.S...There were few details and conflicting estimates about the number...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 11 months ago
Former Taliban fighter Mullah Rassoul is a man with few friends...He considered rejoining his former Taliban comrades, but they see him as a traitor. "They said I had to prove my loyalty by killing foreigners or high-ranking Afghans," Rassoul said. "...
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The Guardian
| 11 months ago
Five American troops have been wounded in a so-called 'green-on-blue' attack in the area. Photograph: Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters An Afghan soldier has shot and wounded five US troops in eastern Afghanistan , just days after an Afghan policeman killed...
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DAWN
| 11 months ago
A man in Afghan army uniform opened fire on Nato soldiers at a military base near Kabul, wounding five, the coalition said Wednesday, the latest in a series of so-called green-on-blue attacks. Attacks by Afghan security forces on their allies from...
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BBC
| 11 months ago
Five Nato soldiers in eastern Afghanistan were wounded when an individual in Afghan army uniform opened fire on them on Tuesday. The five, believed to be American, are receiving medical treatment...The attack took place at a Nato base in Wardak...
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AP Online
| 11 months ago
Honduras (AP) — Honduran police say a plane carrying a load of cocaine has crashed in eastern Honduras, killing at least one person on board.
Authorities say the twin-engine aircraft from Colombia crashed Tuesday while being chased by...
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Fiji Times
| 11 months ago
Private Apete Saunikalou and two colleagues were gunned down while on duty at Checkpoint Kamparack Pul in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand province on Saturday...On May 4, Pte Ratu Manasa Silibaravi was killed in the same area while deployed in...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 11 months ago
That sticking point resolved, a key supply route will reopen, but US-Pakistan ties are weaker now. Washington The United States relented and formally apologized to Pakistan Tuesday for a border incident seven months ago in which 24 Pakistani soldiers...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 11 months ago
Afghanistan, after Washington apologised for killing Pakistani soldiers in an airstrike last year...The bitter stalemate had complicated the American troop withdrawal from Afghanistan and threatened counter-terrorism cooperation. The breakthrough...
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DAWN
| 11 months ago
Pakistan confirmed late Tuesday that it had decided to reopen vital Nato supply routes into Afghanistan which have been closed since November, a government spokesman said. The meeting of Pakistan's defence committee (DCC) of the cabinet has decided...
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The Globe & Mail
| 11 months ago
Story Mir Mohammad Yousuf Shahwani, head of the largest oil tanker owners association in Pakistan, told AFP that supply trucks and tankers could be en route in days but insisted they needed protection first. It is a sudden decision but even then we...
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DAWN
| 11 months ago
The US commander of Nato troops fighting the Taliban on Tuesday welcomed Pakistan's decision to reopen Nato supply lines into Afghanistan after a seven-month blockade. General John Allen made the remarks in a statement released in Kabul that also...
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Reuters
| 11 months ago
Afghanistan, as drivers sit nearby, at a compound in Karachi July 3, 2012.
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The Globe & Mail
| 11 months ago
Reuters video video video During a telephone conversation Tuesday with her Pakistani counterpart Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar, she informed me that the ground supply lines into Afghanistan are opening, Ms...Foreign Minister Khar and I...
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CNN Blog
| 11 months ago
Pakistan has decided to re-open supply routes that the United States and its allies have used to supply their troops in Afghanistan, U.S...This is critically important to the men and women who are fighting terrorism and extremism in Afghanistan."...
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The Independent
| 11 months ago
Suggested Topics The sun was just beginning to set as the shura meeting with local Afghan elders came to a close at the Kamparack Pul checkpoint in Afghanistan's Helmand Province on Sunday evening. British troops were returning to their vehicles when...
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Chicago Tribune
| 11 months ago
Afghanistan, parked along a roadside in Karachi May 23, 2012. Afghanistan, a Pakistani official said on Monday, a move that could ease a seven-month crisis in the two countries' ties.
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The Christian Science Monitor
| 11 months ago
Luton, England An Afghan policeman turned his weapon on British troops Sunday, killing three and sending more bad news to a British public deeply unhappy with the war.
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The Guardian
| 11 months ago
Afghan police officers at a checkpoint tower where one of their colleagues killed three British soldiers on 1 July. These attacks 'have to be set against the steep decline in Isaf losses over the past year'. Photograph: Abdul Malik/Reuters A few days...
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Kuwait Times
| 11 months ago
Kashmiri Muslim women wail outside the Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jeelani shrine which was damaged in a fire last week, after it was reopened for the public in Srinagar, India yesterday. A fire destroyed the revered Muslim shrine in Indian-administered...
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The independent
| 11 months ago
Prime Minister David Cameron has paid tribute to three British soldiers shot dead by a gunman wearing an Afghan police uniform...They received first aid at the scene but died of their injuries. Two of the men were serving with the 1st Battalion Welsh...
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DAWN
| 11 months ago
A suicide car bomb attack outside a university in southern Afghanistan on Monday killed at least seven civilians and wounded more than 20, officials said. The attack happened around 7:00 pm (1430 GMT) in Kandahar city in front of Kandahar University,...
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BBC
| 11 months ago
At least seven people have been killed and many more wounded in a suicide car bomb attack in the Afghan city of Kandahar, police have said. The attack happened in Kandahar city in front of Kandahar university, about 2km (1.3 miles) from the former...
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AP Online
| 11 months ago
Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide bomber blew up a car packed with explosives near the gates of a university in southern Afghanistan on Monday, killing at least seven people, officials said.
Ahmad Javed Faisal, the spokesman for the governor...
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The Age
| 11 months ago
The university is in Kandahar city, the capital of a province with the same name where Taliban insurgents have been blamed for a spike in violence. Advertisement: Story continues below Faisal said it was not yet clear if university students were...
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Voice of America
| 11 months ago
VOA News July 02, 2012 Britain's defense ministry says an Afghan man dressed in a police uniform killed three British soldiers Sunday. In a statement Monday, the ministry said the incident occurred at a checkpoint in southern Afghanistan's Helmand...
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Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 11 months ago
A man wearing Afghan police uniform shot dead three British soldiers at a checkpoint in Afghanistan on Sunday, Britain's Defence Ministry said on Monday. The soldiers were serving with an Afghan police advisory team and were killed after a meeting at...
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The Courier-Mail
| 11 months ago
Pakistani forces have killed at least six militants staging attacks from Afghanistan on security forces in the northwest of the country. Sunday, the latest attack to raise questions about whether Pakistani Taliban have regrouped in Afghanistan since...
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Ledger-Enquirer
| 11 months ago
Three British soldiers were killed in southern Afghanistan on Sunday by a man dressed in the uniform of the country's police force, Britain's defense ministry said in a statement Monday. The ministry said two soldiers from the 1st Battalion Welsh...
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DAWN
| 11 months ago
The Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs has indicated that if Pakistan does not stop attacking Afghanistan, the issue would be taken to United Nations Security Council, a news report published on the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (...
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Indian Express
| 11 months ago
The daily said in the editorial piece titled 'Crippled, Chaotic Pakistan' that for years, Pakistan ignored the Obama administration's pleas to crack down on militants who cross over to attack American forces in Afghanistan. Recent cross-border raids...
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International Herald Tribune
| 11 months ago
Western forces by an Afghan ally, coalition and Afghan officials said on Monday. Once a rare occurrence, Afghan soldiers and police have attacked their American and allied counterparts with increasing frequency in recent years. The assaults have...
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DAWN
| 11 months ago
Militants crossed into Pakistan from Afghanistan's area adjacent to Upper Dir late on Sunday and attacked a checkpost of Pakistan's security forces, DawnNews reported. Six militants were killed when the under-attack forces resorted to retaliatory...
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International Herald Tribune
| 11 months ago
Australia will play Afghanistan for the first time next month in what is likely to be a one-day international in the United Arab Emirates, Cricket Australia (CA) said on Monday. Full details of the match, including the format, have yet to be...
