Posts Tagged ‘ afghan ’

WASHINGTON: The US Air Force plans to deliver 1,000 laser-guided bomb kits to Pakistan this month to help Islamabad in its offensive against militants on the Afghan border, a spokesman said on Tuesday.
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BERLIN: Pakistan should be more closely involved in solving the Afghan conflict, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a newspaper interview due to be published on Sunday. “There will be no peace in this region unless Pakistan carries its share of responsibility,” Merkel told German weekly magazine
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MUMBAI: Bollywood beauty Shilpa Shetty is ready for her sangeet, a day before her grand wedding with London businessman Raj Kundra on Sunday. Shilpa’s sangeet ceremony, which will be attended by family members and her close friends from the film fraternity, is being held in Khandala. Reports are that Shilpa will be dancing...
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Sri Lanka Free From 136,000 Tamils:All ethnic-minority Tamil detainees will be freed from government camps on December 1, a senior Sri Lankan official has said. Some 300,000 war-displaced Tamils were forced into camps after fleeing the final months of the government’s decades-long war with the separatist Tamil Tiger rebels, which ended in May....
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LONDON: Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Miliband says the Afghanistan government would collapse within weeks if NATO troops left the country right away. Miliband said insurgent forces would quickly overrun Afghan troops if the international community pulled out, in an interview with a newspaper published Saturday
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Interior Minister Rehman Malik claims he will resign from the office if presence of Blackwater is proven in Pakistan, reported Dunya News. Malik said that Afghan Refugee Camps have become hub of terrorism
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SHANGHAI: Al Qaeda Still Greatest Threat to US: Barack Obama, US President Barack Obama on Monday called al Qaeda the biggest threat to US security, as his aides stepped up pressure on Afghanistan and Pakistan to cooperate with Washington’s strategy in the troubled region. Obama, who was visiting Shanghai as part of a...
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KABUL: NATO and Afghan forces killed several insurgents, including an armed woman, in a search operation in western Afghanistan, the alliance said.
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