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Bob Ainsworth: You Ask The Questions
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 5 days ago
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This will be the second year in the last three that I have spent more than 183 days outside the UK; this rate of absence from the UK is likely to continue for the majority of my career. My American, Australian and Canadian colleagues do not pay income...
Tags: Afghanistan, UK Armed Forces, Iraq, body armoured, defence secretary, Kabul, Politics, Peter Mandelson, invasion of Iraq, Ministry of Defence, War in Afghanistan, Iraq War, Iraq ￢ﾀﾓ United States relations, British Armed Forces, War Conflict
PM 'must intervene' over TA cuts
Kabul :: Afghanistan | about 1 month ago
Credibility Lindsay Hoyle said ministers would have to give more ground due to the scale of opposition and compared the issue with that of Gurkhas' residency rights. In future, TA units which are not due to be deployed to Afghanistan will be limited to training one...
Tags: THE Territorial Army, THE Ministry of Defence, 20m cut, training budget, Gordon Brown, ta cut, defence secretary
Tories 'to cut MoD costs by 25%'
Kabul :: Afghanistan | about 1 month ago
Credibility Shadow defence secretary Liam Fox is expected to tell the party's conference: "Some things will have to change and believe me, they will."...The Tories have pledged to cut overall Whitehall budgets by a third. Bookmark with:
Tags: Liam Fox, Shadow defence, secretary liam, defence secretary, cut mod
Security top priority, says Zardari
Islamabad :: Pakistan | 2 months ago
Credibility President Asif Ali Zardari has said that the one million strong Pakistani community in Britain served as a bridge between the two countries and it was in the mutual interest of both the countries to work for the welfare of the community. He said that...
Tags: Britain-Pakistan, Bob Ainsworth, Pakistani, Alan Johnson, Afghanistan, defence secretary, UK Cabinet, British, Army, secretary alan
Tension Between Foreign Ministry And Britian:Delay In Issuance Of Visas To U.K.
There have been several letters to local newspapers here for several days imploring the people concerned in the U.K. to issue them their U.K.Visas without further delay.Those that have been affected are students who had to join their colleges and universities...
Tags: british secretay, defence secretary, pakistan prime minister, visa issues.
Pakistan nukes safe from terror attacks, says US
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 2 months ago
Credibility US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has expressed satisfaction over the security arrangements at Pakistan's nuclear arsenal. In an interview with Al-Jazeera TV channel Monday, Gates said the US considered Pakistani arrangements to secure its nuclear arsenal...
Tags: Robert Gates, Pakistan, nuclear arsenal, secretary robert, security arrangements, Taliban, defence secretary, Al Jazeera
UK Afghan role 'to be scaled down'
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 3 months ago
Credibility Defence secretary Bob Ainsworth has suggested the UK's role in Afghanistan could be scaled down over the next 12 months, as the death toll passes the 200 mark. Mr Ainsworth said that reaching the sad milestone, after the 200th and 201st soldiers lost...
Tags: Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, Abdullah Abdullah, Taliban, Ministry of Defence, Bob Ainsworth, defence secretary
Soldier limb amputation figures released
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 4 months ago
Credibility More than 50 British soldiers have had limbs amputated after being wounded on duty in Afghanistan. The official figure released by the Ministry of Defence (MOD) does not cover the last few months which have seen heavy casualties among British troops.
Tags: Ministry of Defence, Bob Ainsworth, labour mp, Eric Joyce, Labour, defence secretary, secretary bob
Families of British war dead forced to wait years for inquests
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 4 months ago
Credibility Francis Elliott and Frances Gibb Grieving relatives of servicemen killed in Afghanistan are having to wait more than two years to learn about the circumstances in which their loved ones died. Inquests are outstanding on almost 100 troops killed on the...
Tags: Afghanistan, Britain, Bob Ainsworth, defence secretary, Mr Ainsworth, British Army
MoD challenge 'possibly' mistaken
London :: United Kingdom | 4 months ago
Credibility But Bob Ainsworth told the BBC the case had to be brought to clear up confusion over compensation payments. He was speaking after ministers agreed to bring forward a general review of armed forces compensation rules. The legal bid by the MoD to try to...
Tags: Bob Ainsworth, Afghanistan, defence secretary, compensation scheme, forces compensation, bring forward, injured servicemen, Ministry of Defence, secretary bob
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