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New Pakistan protest at reopening of NATO supply routes
Jul 16, 2012 (AFP)
Thousands of people gathered at a park in northwest Pakistan Monday for a protest at the reopening of NATO supply routes into Afghanistan, which will culminate ...
5,000 Taliban left the battlefield since 2010: NATO
Jul 16, 2012 (AFP)
Nearly 5,000 former Afghan insurgents have given up their weapons and more are joining a reintegration programme, but it has not dented the overall Taliban forc...
Pakistani Islamists march against NATO, US
Jul 14, 2012 (AFP)
About 5,000 Pakistani Islamists who oppose the anti-terrorism alliance with Washington began a march to the border Saturday in protest over the reopening of NAT...
Commentary: Afghanistan as an ally
Jul 13, 2012 (UPI)
Afghanistan is now promoted to the exalted status of "major non-NATO ally" by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on one of her stopovers in a diplomatic ma...
Thin NATO traffic on Afghan-Pakistan border
Jul 12, 2012 (AFP)
Trucks carrying supplies for NATO troops in Afghanistan crossed the Pakistani border on Thursday for only the second time since Islamabad agreed to lift a seven...
Five dead in Pakistan army helicopter crash: military
Jul 11, 2012 (AFP)
An army helicopter crashed during a test flight in northern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing five people on board, the military said. The MI-17 helicopter came do...
NATO probes deadly roadside bomb in Afghanistan
Jul 10, 2012 (AFP)
NATO is investigating if the roadside bomb that penetrated an armored vehicle and killed six US troops at the weekend was a new type of device or just contained...
Gunmen attack Pakistan army camp, kill seven
Jul 09, 2012 (AFP)
Gunmen killed seven security personnel at an army camp close to Islamabad on Monday, officials said, hours after a protest march against the resumption of NATO ...
Pakistan begins work to speed NATO supply transit
Jul 09, 2012 (AFP)
Pakistan is doubling the capacity for NATO trucks at a key border crossing, officials said Monday, to speed up processing for an expected influx of supplies for...
Pakistani Islamists protest over NATO supply routes
Jul 09, 2012 (AFP)
Thousands of Pakistani Islamists opposed to the country's anti-terror alliance with Washington converged on Islamabad on Monday after a "long march" to protest ...
Donors gather for Tokyo meet on Afghanistan
Jul 08, 2012 (AFP)
Japan will play host Sunday to a world conference aimed at charting a course to stabilise poor and war-torn Afghanistan in the decade after foreign combat force...
Clinton in plea for rights of Afghan women
Jul 08, 2012 (AFP)
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made a powerful plea Sunday for the rights of women in Afghanistan, using a global forum to insist that they must be part ...
Kabul faces pressure on graft at Tokyo aid meet
Jul 06, 2012 (AFP)
Ahead of the exit of foreign combat troops, Afghanistan faces pressure to tackle pervasive corruption as it seeks billions in new aid at an international confer...
China vows to fight terrorists in Uighur
Jul 06, 2012 (UPI)
On the anniversary of major ethnic violence, the top communist official of China's ethnic Uighur region vowed to strike down terrorists and separatists with "ir...
French army hands over key province to Afghan forces
Jul 04, 2012 (AFP)
The French military Wednesday handed over a key Afghan province to local forces, completing an important stage in France's accelerated withdrawal from the war-t...
Pakistan prepares to reopen NATO supply lines
Jul 04, 2012 (AFP)
Thousands of Pakistani truck drivers Wednesday prepared to resume key NATO supply convoys into Afghanistan as a coalition of religious and banned organisations ...
Pakistani-US 'progress' on ending NATO blockade: officials
Jul 03, 2012 (AFP)
Pakistan and the United States have made "progress" in talks on ending Islamabad's seven-month blockade of NATO supplies travelling overland into Afghanistan, o...
Man in Afghan police uniform kills three NATO personnel
Jul 02, 2012 (AFP)
A man in an Afghan police uniform has gunned down three NATO personnel in the war-torn country's troubled south, the coalition said on Sunday, the latest so-cal...
Afghan suicide car bomb kills at least seven: officials
Jul 02, 2012 (AFP)
A suicide car bomb attack outside a university in southern Afghanistan on Monday killed at least seven civilians and wounded more than 20, officials said. The a...
US drone kills six militants in Pakistan: official
Jul 01, 2012 (AFP)
A US drone attack on a militant compound in Pakistan's northwestern tribal area killed six insurgents on Sunday, security officials said. The unmanned aircraft ...
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