ISLAMABAD: Pakistan might relocate a significant number of troops from the lawless tribal areas to man its border towns along Afghanistans Kunar and Nuristan provinces to stop the increasing cross-border incursions by al Qaeda-affiliated Taliban, officials have said.
The move is expected...
Taliban fight takes heavy toll on Pakistani troops
Captain Qasim Abbas flashes the victory sign while attending a physical therapy training at a military rehabilitation hospital in Rawalpindi.AP
By SEBASTIAN ABBOT Associated Press
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan August 25, 2011 (AP)
Capt. Qasim...
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Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari (L) met King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa of Bahrain on Wednesday, August 17, 2011.
Pakistan has agreed to dispatch more mercenaries to Bahrain to help Al Khalifa regime's crackdown on anti-government protesters in...
US troops may stay in Afghanistan until 2024America and Afghanistan are close to signing a strategic pact which would allow thousands of United States troops to remain in the country until at least 2024, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.
The agreement would allow not only military trainers to...
KANDAHAR: It is unclear if the United States will be able to pay troops on time in the event of a debt default, the top US military officer told troops in Afghanistan on Saturday.
Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the US militarys Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Pentagon officials were working hard...
Foundation linked to the Pakistani army has been providing Bahrain thousands of soldiers for its crackdown on protests.
Demonstrations against Bahrain's government have been escalating since the Arab Spring [EPA]
In March, as a government crackdown on pro-democracy protestors intensified...
KABUL: The first group of about 10,000 US soldiers, due to leave Afghanistan this year, have already left, military officials said Friday, kicking off a gradual drawdown due to be completed in 2014.
US President Barack Obama in June announced that 33,000 American troops would leave...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmad Mukhtar threatened to withdraw Pakistani troops from the Pak-Afghan border in reaction to the suspension of nearly $800 million worth of US military aid.
In an exclusive interview with Express 24/7? special correspondent Kirsten Seymour in...
By Sherwood Ross
Troops Obama Are Withdrawing Have Been Replaced By Allies If the tide of war is "receding," as Mr. Obama claims, why are civilian casualties there at an all-time high? Since Obama took office, UK's Guardian reports, total Afghan civilian deaths have soared. In 2008, under...
AFGAN PRESIDENT SAYS THAT AMERICAN FORCES ARE ACCUPING FORCE, AND HE DIDNT REGRET, AND STANDBY TO HIS COMMENTS
ATLEAST HE HAS SOME GARAT(DIGNITY) TO SAY ALTHOUGH HE IS AN AMERICAN PUPPET,CONTRARY TO PAKISTAN PRESIDENT,HE CANNT SAY ANYTHING AGAINST AMERICA.
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In a major policy speech on Wednesday night, President Obama announced plans to withdraw 10,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the end of the yearand a total of 33,000 by the end of next summer. Promising to be as strategic as we are resolute, Obama spoke of the need to balance the war on...
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President Obama is expected to outline his plans for the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan.
According to reports, 30,000 US troops are likely to be withdrawn.
President Obama has been under pressure from Pentagon that...
US-Afghanistan security negotiations continue despite Hillary Clinton saying recently that Washington did not want any 'permanent bases in Afghanistan'. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
American and Afghan officials are locked in increasingly acrimonious...
Gazoo Note: This is how they start. First they place scare in the hearts n minds of the poor gullible and unsuspecting Americans and Europeans. Then justify the invasion. Then they destroy the country and leave.......
CIA invents another conspiracy theory
Adapted from Dawn
Somali militants...
London, May 19, IRNA -- Britain is withdrawing its last remaining troops -more than 100 Navy personnel in Iraq, effectively ending its military involvement in the eight-year old war, one of the most controversial in recent history.
Defence Secretary Liam Fox said the UK-Iraq...
Poll: With bin Laden dead, is it time to end war?
The death of the terror network's leader and an intensified debate about how to cut federal spending are fueling calls to accelerate the promised troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, declare victory and get out.
So with bin Laden finally gone...
India's new worry: PoK & an Ocean of instability
By: Tejas Patel | 2011-04-22 13:41:40
The recent reports of the presence of Chinese troops in the Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) have set the alarm bells ringing in New Delhi.
Despite its neutrality on the Kashmir issue, Beijing is now...
Gazoo's Note: I welcome this move. An army should comprise of qualified individual from all parts of the country, not just from Punjab.
shabash general saheb. Now expand this to other provinces that do not have proper presentation in the forces.
Adapted from Dawn:
GWADAR: Army Chief...
Pakistan Army troops rescued Turkish Ambassador at Ivory Coast Mr Yekcin Kaga Erensoi alongwith three other staff members, Mr Golant, Mr Mahmut (third Secretary) and Mr Ali Ahisk at Ivory Coast (Abijan) on 11 April 2011. Turkish Ambassador was trapped in a Hotel in a volatile situation where gun...