UK army draws up plan to send 1,000 more troops to AfghanistanSeptember 22nd, 2009 LONDON - Britain is making plans to send up to 1,000 extra troops to Afghanistan to meet the call for reinforcements made by the US commander in Kabul. The troops would be Britain's contribution to a military surge called for by General Stanley McChrystal, who commands NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan, some details of which were leaked to an American newspaper yesterday.
Taliban's increased activity in Afghanistan putting pressure on Pak: ReportJuly 26th, 2009 LONDON - Saturday's suicide attack on government buildings in Afghanistan's southeastern city of Khost has raised fears in Pakistan about more such strikes and blood shed by the Taliban in the near future. With elections in Afghanistan less than a month away, the increased extremist activities has raised the pressure bar on Pakistan to help ensure a peaceful election.
Taliban would not be allowed to sneak into Pak from Afghanistan: HolbrookeJuly 24th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The United States would not allow the Taliban to sneak into Pakistan from Afghanistan and is working out a strategy for it, US Special Envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke said before leaving Pakistan for Afghanistan after a two-day visit. Holbrooke said the US would not repeat its mistakes that it did in 2001 when hundreds of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda fighters slipped into Pakistan's border region following the US led surge after 9/11.
Pakistan objects to US' Afghan surgeJuly 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.
Pak seals Afghan border to prevent spillover following US surge in Taliban's heartlandJuly 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.
Pakistan to share evidence of foreign elements behind terrorJuly 4th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan will share with the international community the evidence of foreign elements supporting terrorists to destabilise the country, a foreign ministry official said Saturday. "We have gathered proofs of some anti-Pakistan foreign elements supporting terrorists in our tribal areas to destabilise Pakistan and we would share it with the concerned countries at international level, foreign office spokesman Abdul Basit was quoted as saying by the Online news agency.
Pakistan seals border with Afghanistan, clamps curfewJuly 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.
Pakistan has moved fewer troops to Indian border: HolbrookeJune 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.
US surge in southern Afghanistan to be a major 'game changer' in Pakistan border areaJune 9th, 2009 Obama's Afghan surge changes game, commander saysCAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan — The surge of U.S. troops into southern Afghanistan will be a major "game changer" in the largely Taliban-controlled region as American forces target insurgent transportation routes between Afghanistan and Pakistan, an American commander said Tuesday.
US would respect Pak's 'red lines' in war against terror: HolbrookeJune 6th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Rejecting the notion that the United States might send its troops into Pakistan to fight the Taliban, and Al-Qaeda, US Special Envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan, Richard Hoolbrooke said Washington has no intention of promoting a military surge in Pakistan, and would respect the 'red lines' marked by Islamabad in the 'war against terror'. Addressing a press conference here at the end of his three day visit to Pakistan, Holbrooke said American forces would not enter Pakistan and would respect its sovereignty and integrity.
NATO says roadside bombs surge by 80 percent in Afghanistan, remain top killer of troopsJune 4th, 2009 Number of roadside bombs surge in AfghanistanWASHINGTON — Insurgent use of roadside bombs in Afghanistan has surged 80 percent this year, remaining the No. 1 killer of foreign troops, a NATO official said Thursday.
Militants want to destabilise Pakistan: Rehman MalikMay 27th, 2009 LAHORE - The car bomb blast that killed 40 people in Lahore Wednesday was an attempt by militants to "destabilise" the nation as they are facing defeat in the country's northwest, Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said. Malik told reporters in Karachi that terrorists want to destabilise the country as "they are facing defeat in Swat and FATA (Federally Administered Tribal Areas)".
Zardari rules out shifting troops from Indian borderMay 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.
US Defense secretary Robert Gates tells US Marines they won't be sent to PakistanMay 8th, 2009 Gates: US troops won't be sent to PakistanCAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan — U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says there are no plans to deploy U.S.
Terrorists pose an "ever more serious threat to Pak's existence": CENTCOM chiefApril 16th, 2009 LAHORE - US Central Command (CENTCOM) chief General David Petraeus, has said that the presence of extremists outfits such as Al Qaeda on Pakistan's soil pose 'an ever more serious threat to its very existence'. In an interview to the Philadelphia Inquirer, General Petraeus said the US policy's prime focus was on Afghanistan and Pakistan, because of the presence Al-Qaeda in the tribal regions of Pakistan.
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