Pakistan says more troops sent to Afghan border to stop Taliban fleeing US assault

October 5th, 2009 2 NATO soldiers reported killed in AfghanistanKABUL — Bombs killed two NATO troopers, including one American, following the deadliest attack against U.S. forces in Afghanistan in more than a year, military officials said Monday.

September 1st, 2009 Pakistan forces destroy 3 militant bases in NWPESHAWAR, Pakistan — Government forces destroyed three militant bases and killed five insurgents Tuesday in Pakistan's northwestern border region, the military said. Two militant commanders were among those killed in the dawn raids in the Khyber region, a statement from the Frontier Corps said.

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 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 3rd, 2009 15 dead in suspected US missile strike in PakistanISLAMABAD — U.S. missiles struck a training facility operated by Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud and a militant hide-out Friday, killing 15 people and wounding 27 others, intelligence officials said.

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 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's Army has deployed troops to a stretch of the Afghan border to stop Taliban militants fleeing a major US offensive in southern Afghanistan, a military spokesman said Thursday. Major General Athar Abbas told Geo TV that they had "mustered more troops from the other areas of the border" to deploy opposite the Helmand region, "It is sort of a reorganisation," he said, adding that the threat of militants crossing over had been "visualised".

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 20th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - With the Pakistan government announcing a Swat like military offensive in South Waziristan with a primary motive to hunt down the Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) chief Baitullah Mehsud, the NATO forces deployed in Afghanistan are also ready to extend help. The allied forces stationed in Afghanistan will likely extend help in Pakistan's military offensive, by sharing important intelligence inputs in order to prevent a probable spill-over of the militants, The Nation reports.

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 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Indian Army, which has been keeping a cautious eye on developments across the western border where the security forces have launched a major operation against the Taliban, Tuesday said no thinning out of troops on the Pakistan side of the frontier had been noticed. 'There have been no indications of thinning out of (Pakistani) troops,' a senior Indian Army official told IANS, requesting anonymity as he was not authorised to speak to the media.

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 9th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has renewed his pledge to work for better ties with India, saying Islamabad has shifted an unspecified number of troops from its western border to fight the Taliban. 'I've always considered India a neighbour which we want to improve our relationship with,' Zardari told PBS public television Friday.

April 27th, 2009 British PM: Af-Pak border 'crucible of terrorism'KABUL — The border areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan form a "crucible of terrorism" that Western powers must combat for their own safety, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Monday. Brown was on a one-day visit to Afghanistan in which he toured British bases in the south and discussed strategy with President Hamid Karzai.

January 19th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - At least two dozen militants were killed by the Pakistani security forces in the Mohmand tribal region Tuesday, an official said. Jet aircraft attacked militant positions in Kandharo village before ground troops moved in to clear the area, which is located close to the Afghan border.