Pakistan moves troops to Afghan border: Report

October 13th, 2009 Pakistan bombs militants close to Afghan borderISLAMABAD — An intelligence official says Pakistani jets have bombed militant targets in an insurgent stronghold close to the Afghan border. The military has been attacking militants in South Waziristan for several months ahead of an expected ground offensive there.

August 30th, 2009 Pakistan: Border blast sets NATO fuel trucks afireCHAMAN, Pakistan — An explosion ripped through a line of trucks ferrying fuel to NATO troops in Afghanistan, setting several oil tankers ablaze Sunday at a backed-up Pakistani border crossing, police said. The blast appeared to be the second terrorist attack Sunday in Pakistan and the second in a week to target a border crossing.

July 22nd, 2009 NEW YORK - While the United States is planning a massive surge in Afghanistan, what may be seen as a final assault against Al-Qaeda, theTaliban and other extremist groups, Pakistan is not supportive of any such US move. Pakistan intelligence officials say Islamabad is apprehensive about the expanding US offensive, as it feels that it could create further problems in already troubled Balochistan.

July 11th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has sealed its border with Afghanistan and has reportedly deployed huge number of troops along the region bordering the Helmand province in the neighboring country, where the US-led allied forces have launched a massive surge against the Taliban and Al-Qaeda. The border area in Nushki and Chagai districts have been completely sealed to prevent any spill over of the militants, sources said.

July 5th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The United States is hoping to get support from the Pakistan Army in its offensive in Afghanistan, but the hostility between Pakistan and Afghanistan is not allowing the US-led allied forces to carry out an all out offensive in the region and is impeding their success, The Washington Post reports. The U.S. troops are struggling to overcome decades of enmity between Afghanistan and Pakistan in the rough terrains of the border area, the report said.

July 3rd, 2009 MIRANSHAH - Pakistan has sealed its South Waziristan border with Afghanistan and imposed a curfew there to prevent Afghan militants from infiltrating into its territory in the wake of fresh offensives by US troops on the Taliban on the other side of the border. The Pakistan Army has already deployed additional troops at the border on the directives of the federal government, the Online news agency said Friday.

July 2nd, 2009 Pakistan upping border force along Helmand stretchISLAMABAD — Pakistan's army has deployed more troops to a stretch of the Afghan border to stop Taliban militants fleeing a major U.S. offensive in southern Afghanistan, a spokesman said Thursday.

July 2nd, 2009 Pakistan moves troops to Afghan borderISLAMABAD — Pakistan's army has deployed troops to a stretch of the Afghan border to stop Taliban militants fleeing a major U.S. offensive in southern Afghanistan, a spokesman said Thursday.

July 2nd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Army has 'reorganized' its troops along the Afghan border to prevent the spill over of militants from the neighboring country following the fresh US-Afghan onslaught on the Taliban today. "We've mustered more troops from the other areas of the border to deploy opposite the Helmand region.

June 30th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has ruled out any possibility of shifting its troops from the eastern Indian border to the western border with Afghanistan. Addressing a joint press conference with the ISPR spokesman Major General Athar Abbas here, Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira said Pakistan will not remove its military from the Indian border and deploy it along the western border with Afghanistan.

June 11th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Pakistan has moved more troops to its border with Afghanistan than it has to its border with India since the Nov 26 Mumbai terror attacks, according to a top US official. But the US special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, declined to say how many troops Pakistan has moved from the border with India even as he refuted a suggestion that Pakistani troops there are back to the pre-Mumbai attack levels.

May 9th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Putting aside continuous US demands for shifting its troops from the eastern Indian border to the Western border along Afghanistan to focus more on the Taliban's surge, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has said that the move is not possible. "Half of our army is deployed on Indo-Pak Eastern boarder and we cannot move army from there for their deployment on Western border," The News quoted Zardari, as saying.

May 8th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to form a joint border security force. Addressing a press conference, the Interior Ministers of Pakistan and Afghanistan also said that both the countries would exchange prisoners.

May 5th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Pakistan has asked the United States to tell India to pull back its troops from its eastern border before asking Islamabad to do so. Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States, Husain Haqqani, said Obama should first ask India to pull back from the eastern border, and then ask Pakistan to shift focus towards the western Afghan border.

December 25th, 2008 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has deployed troops to protect 'vital points' along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir and the international border with India, a media report said Friday. 'Sources in the defence department declined to give details of any fresh movement but did not deny reports that Pakistan was moving certain brigades towards Lahore,' Daily Times said.