Posts tagged afghanistan
Reopening Pakistani routes crucial for NATO exit plan
May 21st
With Pakistan so far unwilling to reopen supply routes to Afghanistan, NATO faces a potential logistical nightmare as it prepares for a costly withdrawal of military hardware over the next two years. In the run-up a NATO summit that opened Sunday, US and Pakistani officials had signaled growing optimism that a deal would be clinched on reopening the routes, which Islamabad had closed in November over a botched American air raid.
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Loading ...Zardari, Karzai discuss Pakistan role in Afghanistan peace
May 21st
President Asif Ali Zardari and his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai discussed post-NATO forces’ withdrawal from Afghanistan situation after 2014.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...No Zardari, Obama meeting in Chicago
May 21st
Hopes for a meeting on the sidelines of the NATO summit bringing together the US, Afghan and Pakistani presidents appear to have dimmed, and analysts say this is due to the lack of a full agreement with Pakistan on reopening NATO supply lines into Afghanistan.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...NATO officials: No plan to intervene in Syria
May 21st
United States and NATO officials say the North Atlantic alliance has no intention of intervening militarily to quell violence in Syria. NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and U.S
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Clinton meets President Zardari over supply line row
May 21st
CHICAGO — US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari here on Sunday, as both sides haggled over a deal to reopen NATO supply lines into Afghanistan, a US official said. “Secretary Clinton did meet with President Zardari,” said Ben Rhodes, a deputy US national security advisor, on the sidelines of the NATO summit here, but did not provide further details.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Thousands begin NATO protest march through Chicago
May 20th
Thousands of demonstrators upset with the war in Afghanistan, climate change and the erosion of union rights marched through downtown Chicago on Sunday, taking their discontent on a wide range of issues to world leaders assembled for a NATO summit. The protest, one of the city s largest in years, was to end at the lakeside convention center hosting the two-day meeting. Some are calling for the dissolution of NATO, the 63-year-old military alliance that is holding its 25th formal meeting in Chicago
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...2 NATO soldiers, 2 minors killed in Afghan attack
May 20th
"Two International Security Assistance Force service members died following an insurgent attack in southern Afghanistan today," NATO s International Security Assistance Force said in a statement, without giving further details. Two children were also killed and several civilians were wounded in the attack, which targeted a NATO convoy, the provincial police chief for southern Uruzgan province told AFP.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Torkham border slammed shut ahead of NATO summit
May 20th
An AFP reporter who on Sunday travelled from the northwestern Peshawar city to Torkham, on the dangerous Khyber Pass, confirmed no NATO vehicles were going through, nor were there even any waiting at the pass. A furious Pakistan slammed shut the Torkham border gate in its northwest to NATO vehicles in November when air strikes killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, souring already fragile relations between allies Washington and Islamabad.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Late flight: Zardari-Rasmussen meeting delayed in Chicago
May 20th
CHICAGO: A scheduled meeting between President Asif Ali Zardari and Secretary General was delayed due to delayed arrival of the flight carrying Pakistan leader, SAMAA reports. Presidential spokesman, Farhatullah Babar said Pakistani and NATO officials were working to reschedule the meeting.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Hopes fading for swift U.S., Pakistan deal on Afghan supply routes
May 20th
CHICAGO; The Obama administration may be not be able to strike a long-awaited agreement with Pakistan to help supply Western soldiers in Afghanistan as hoped in time for a major NATO summit in Chicago this weekend, a U.S. official said
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...President Zardari may face friction over supply routes at NATO summit
May 20th
CHICAGO: Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari arrived in Chicago on Saturday for a NATO summit to what could be a chilly reception if a hoped-for deal allowing trucks to again supply alliance troops in Afghanistan fails to materialize. While Western officials sought to portray Zardari’s presence as a sign of improving NATO-Pakistan ties, possible friction at the meeting underscores the challenges NATO countries face as they struggle to ensure a stable future for Afghanistan after Western toops withdraw
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Chicago braces for largest anti-NATO protest
May 20th
Chicago police trying to keep the peace during the NATO summit may face their biggest test on Sunday when thousands of demonstrators were expected to march near the site where leaders of the military alliance begin a two-day meeting. Previous protests in the runup to the summit Sunday and Monday have been lively but peaceful, resulting in fewer than two dozen arrests over the past six days, according to the Chicago Police Department
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...No decision against national aspirations, says Malik
May 19th
The government would follow the guide line of the government. No decision would be taken against the aspirations of the nation. The opposition has right to go on long or short march but such uncertain situation would not happen, said Rehman Malik
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...NATO supply: US rejects Pak transit fee demand
May 19th
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said this in an interview to foreign newspaper before leaving for Chicago to attend NATO summit is scheduled to begin on Sunday. Pakistani officials have demanded that amount as a condition for reopening supply routes that have been closed to the alliance since fall
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...No bail for Italian sailors in India despite envoy protests
May 19th
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: An Indian court denied bail on Saturday to two Italian sailors charged with the murder at sea of two Indian fishermen they mistook for pirates, hours after Rome recalled its ambassador from New Delhi in an increasingly surly diplomatic row.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Chicago protesters break away from nurses’ rally
May 19th
Hundreds of protesters broke away from a large rally and began marching through Chicago streets, taunting police and shouting about everything from bank bailouts to nuclear power a prelude to even bigger demonstrations expected after the start of a NATO summit. Police said Friday there was one arrest for aggravated battery of a police officer. Officers were also seen trying to arrest a man who scaled a bridge tower and pulled down part of a NATO banner
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