KHAR: Inspector General Frontier Corps Major General Tariq Khan has said that security forces have regained full control of Bajaur besides killing 54 more militants, including seven key Taliban commanders. While ongoing operations in Orakzai Agency and Teerah will also be completed soon, he announced. Meanwhile, Director General Inter-Services Public Relation (ISPR) Maj-Gen...
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Troops regain full control of Bajaur
‘No objection to reopening of Swiss cases’: President
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari has expressed willingness to fulfill the orders of the higher judiciary in their true spirit, saying he has no objection to the reopening of Swiss cases. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani assured the President that the judiciary poses no threat to democracy, sources told Geo News on...
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Shahbaz says will welcome President Zardari
LAHORE: Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif said he will welcome President Asif Zardari if he could visit Lahore in his presence. Talking to media at Lahore airport after tour of Turkey and United Kingdom, Shahbaz denied the impression that he went Turkey to avoid to welcome President
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Gates regrets past grave mistakes in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: US Defence Secretary Robert Gates on Friday expressed regret for past US policies that cut military ties with Pakistan, saying the move was “a grave strategic mistake” that had damaged relations. Speaking at the National Defence University in Islamabad, he said a US ban on military contacts in the 1990s over Pakistan’’s...
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Pak Army:No New Operations This Year
Pak Army:No New Operations This Year:ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will not start any new operation against terrorists this year, said spokesperson for Pakistani army. Pakistan army spokesman Major General Athar Abbas told a British channel that new fronts against terrorists will not be open in next one year.
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