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Pakistan’s price: US to pay $365 million more a year to reopen supply lines
May 16th
ISLAMABAD: The cost of the US-led war effort in Afghanistan is about to rise by $365 million annually under an agreement that would reopen a key NATO supply route through Pakistan that’s been closed for nearly six months, The Christian Science Monitor reported. The accord, which the Pakistani government announced late Tuesday, would revive the transport of vital supplies of food and equipment from Pakistani ports overland to land-locked Afghanistan.
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Loading ...U.N. aims to collect monitors from Syrian town
May 16th
BEIRUT: The United Nations aims to collect a monitoring team from the Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun on Wednesday, the head of the monitoring mission said, after they spent the night in the hands of rebels following an attack near their convoy.
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May 16th
Staff Report RAWALPINDI: The top army brass on Wednesday reviewed reopen ground supply lines for US and NATO troops fighting in Afghanistan, SAMAA reports. Sources say Pakistan and the United States are on the verge of clinching an agreement to resume the supply line after President Asif Ali Zardari received an invite on Tuesday to attend a summit of NATO leaders this weekend in Chicago. Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani chaired the meeting and brief the commanders about decisions on the issue taken in session of Defence Committee of the Cabinet on Tuesday.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...IAEA talks at Iran mission in Vienna to resume Tuesday
May 14th
VIENNA: Senior U.N. nuclear watchdog officials left an Iranian diplomatic mission in Vienna after around five hours of talks on the Islamic state’s disputed atomic activities on Monday, declining any comment to media waiting outside. A spokeswoman for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the Vienna-based U.N
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Measles kills 12 kids in tribal areas in 3 weeks
May 14th
MIRANSHAH: An outbreak of measles in part of tribal areas of the country, has killed 12 children in three weeks and is spreading due to a shortage of medicines, according to doctors.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Afghan police kill two UK soldiers: Defence Ministry
May 13th
LONDON: Two members of the Afghan police opened fire on British soldiers who were mentoring them in the south of the country, killing two, Britain’s Defence Ministry said on Sunday.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Pak, Afghan and ISAF high-ups discus border situation
May 13th
Staff Report RAWALPINDI: Military authorities of Pakistan, Afghanistan and ISAF on Sunday discussed border situation in the 35th meeting of Tri Partite Commission here in Rawalpindi, according to ISPR. “Talks focused on border control measures, and mechanisms put in place to avoid untoward incidents on both sides of Pak-Afghan Border,” the army said in a statement. “The Commission provides a forum to raise and process contentious issues and facilitate settlement,” it said, sand providing further details of the meeting attended by Pakistan Army General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, General John Allen, Commander ISAF and General Sher Muhammad Karimi, Chief of General Staff Afghan National Army, who headed their
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Child among six injured in Peshawar blast
May 13th
Staff Report PESHAWAR: In the latest spree of bomb blasts in Peshawar city, six people were injured on Sunday morning as an explosion hit a police check post in city’s outskirts, SAMAA reports. Officials said the blast took place at outside a police post on Ring Road near Maal Mandi (cattle market) within the remits of Peshawar’s Chamkani police station.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Men in Afghan police uniforms kill 2 NATO troops
May 13th
KABUL, Afghanistan: Men wearing Afghan police uniforms shot dead two NATO service members Saturday in southern Afghanistan, authorities said, the latest in a string of attacks on international troops by Afghan security forces
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...JI-led conference demands fresh probe on May 12 tragedy
May 12th
Staff Report ISLAMABAD: Participants of JI-led national conference Saturday called for the establishment of an impartial tribunal to probe May 12 tragedy. The national conference was attended by leaders of several religious and political parties. Speaking on this occasion, PTI leader Shah Mahmood Qureshi said the current assembly has lost its usefulness.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...ISAF team arrives in Pakistan, meets Gen Kayani
May 12th
Staff Report ISLAMABAD: A delegation of International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) led by General John Allen arrived in Islamabad on Saturday from Afghanistan to attend a trilateral summit. “Talks will focus on enhancing efficiency of border coordination measures along the Pakistani-Afghan border and improving multilateral mechanisms at operational and tactical levels,” ISPR said in a statement. The meet is in continuation of the series of regular meetings held under the Tri Party Commission framework, the statement added.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...India agrees $560 mln US artillery deal: officials
May 12th
NEW DELHI: India has agreed a $560-million deal to buy 145 howitzer guns from BAE Systems of the United States as it upgrades its antiquated military hardware, an official said Saturday. India is updating its military capabilities with hardware worth tens of billions of dollars in the face of long-standing tensions with regional rivals China and Pakistan
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...South Sudan accuses Khartoum of more border attacks
May 9th
JUBA: South Sudan accused Sudan on Wednesday of bombing and shelling seven areas on the southern side of their disputed border in the last 48 hours, calling the acts a violation of a U.N.-backed ceasefire which should have begun on Saturday.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Algeria election a contest against mistrust, apathy
May 7th
ALGIERS: In Algeria, even those who owe their livelihoods to the government find it hard to muster enthusiasm for a parliamentary election this week that few believe will change anything. “If my father rose from his grave and told me to vote, I wouldn’t do it,” one civil servant said as he shared an elevator at a government ministry with two strangers. The election on May 10 is turning out to be not so much a contest between political parties as between those who think people should vote and those who don’t want to
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...At least 32 Yemeni troops killed in militant attack
May 7th
ADEN: Islamist gunmen killed at least 32 soldiers on Monday when they stormed a military position in southern Yemen where militants control broad swathes of territory, a military official said.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Angry Greeks reject bailout, risk euro exit
May 7th
ATHENS: Greek voters enraged by economic hardship caused by the terms of an international bailout turned on ruling parties in an election on Sunday, putting the country’s future in the euro zone at risk and threatening to revive Europe’s debt crisis. The latest official results, with over 61 percent of the vote counted, showed the only two major parties supporting an EU/IMF program that keeps Greece from bankruptcy would be hard pressed to form a lasting coalition.
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