ISLAMABAD, Pakistan News: Federal Ministry of Law in a rejoinder to National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has said that only government can contact the Swiss government over the reopening of cases. Chairman NAB in a recently written letter to the ministry of law asked the ministry what steps can be taken for reopening of...
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan News: Supreme Court Tuesday returned a government review petition over the NRO verdict of the apex court. Advocate on-record Raja Abdul Ghafoor has said that there were minor and technical objections on the government plea, which will be removed and amended version of the petition will be filed in the apex...
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RAWALPINDI, Pakistan News: The polling for by-elections in NA-55 is underway here as candidates contesting election visited different polling stations and cast their votes. The chief of Awami Muslim League Sheikh Rashid and candidate of Jamaat-e-Islami Dr
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OUTSKIRTS OF MARJAH : Taliban resistance to a major US-led assault in southern Afghanistan has slowed, the military said Wednesday, as civilians stream out of the area in search of food and supplies. Around 15,000 US, Afghan and NATO forces have been fighting for two weeks to capture the area of Marjah from...
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TOKYO News: Japan on Friday ended a naval refuelling mission that has supported the US-led military effort in Afghanistan since 2001 as the centre-left government flexes its muscles in its ties with Washington. The move fulfils a pledge by Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama’s government which ousted the long-ruling conservatives four months ago pledging a...
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ASADABAD news updates: Nato warplanes pounded a Taliban stronghold in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, killing more than 20 insurgents and destroying a bunker complex, military officials said. Noor Akbar, a regional Taliban commander was among those killed in the raid in the province of Kunar, a mountainous region and Taliban flashpoint area, Afghan army...
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WASHINGTON news about: The United States said Sunday it was pressing Pakistan to move against Taliban and Al-Qaeda sanctuaries in its territory, saying success in Afghanistan depended on disrupting the cross-border safe havens. Senior administration officials turned the focus on Pakistan in a series of television talk shows, after pouring pressure on Afghanistan’s President...
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LONDON news updates: A Taliban detainee in Pakistan claims to have information about Osama Bin Laden’s whereabouts in January or February of this year. His claims cannot be verified but a leading American expert says his account should be investigated. The detainee claims to have met Osama Bin Laden numerous times before 9/11. He...
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BRUSSELS news updates: British Foreign Secretary David Miliband warned on Friday that now is a ‘vital time’ for Nato and the Afghan government to seize back the initiative from the Taliban and al Qaeda. “We are now at a vital time, and we all know that in the 1990s Afghanistan was the incubator of...
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BRUSSELS news updates: The United States and Nato chiefs on Friday sought support for a new troop surge in Afghanistan aiming to defeat the Taliban and al Qaeda, while pressuring the Afghan government to take charge of its own security. After the United States ordered at least 30,000 extra troops to the war stricken...
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