President Hamid Karzai on Saturday said foreign troops violated his decree barring airstrikes in residential areas when they carried out an air raid in eastern Kunar province on April 6.Karzai who met members of a team he had appointed to investigate the airstrike in Shigal district was told 17 ...

The current election fever in Pakistan is high in comparison to any other elections previously. It seems as if everyone is geared to look for a change, knowing in their hearts that nothing will change. But they still seem hopeful. Though the general perception is that election will be held on May ...

ISLAMABAD - International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) Deputy Commander Lt-Gen Nick Carter landed in Pakistan on Wednesday to meet the country’s top military officials, after Gen John Allen’s visit reportedly had to be cancelled owing to a pending inquiry against him.This is the ...

KANDAHAR  - A suicide attack and bomb blasts killed at least nine people in Afghanistan including two coalition forces members in southern Kandahar province, Isaf and local officials said Saturday.A suicide bomber targeted a group of foreign soldiers and Afghan intelligence agents in Maruf ...

KABUL- Foreign troops fighting in Afghanistan continue to pay a high toll, with more than 560 killed in 2011, the second highest number in the 10-year war against the Taliban-led insurgency. Commanders from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) say violence is declining ...

KABUL  - A roadside bomb killed four civilians in Afghanistan’s southern prov-ince of Uruzgan Friday, the provincial head of the criminal investigation unit said.Also in the volatile south, a member of the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force was killed by an IED (improvised ...

ISLAMABAD - The National Accountability Bureau has constituted two teams to investigate the International Security Assistance Force containers scam and other special cases.The officers of team-I would attach with Special Operation Division for investigation of the special cases and the containers ...

DUBAI (Agencies) - Isaf Commander in Afghanistan John Allen has denied giving any assurance that incidents like Nato airstrike in Mohmand will not happen again during the war in Afghanistan. In an interview with Khaleej Times on Sunday, he however expressed his regret over the martyrdom of 24 ...

ISLAMABAD - Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Tuesday referring the missing International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) containers issue to National Accountability Bureau (NAB) directed to initiate criminal proceedings against persons involved in the scam. Chairman Federal Board of ...

UNITED NATIONS - The UN Security Council voted unanimously on Wednesday to adopt resolution 2011, which gave one-year extension to the US-led 130,000 international force deployed to quell insurgencies in Afghanistan. The resolution welcomed the agreement between Afghanistan and troop-contributing ...

ISLAMABAD - Chairman Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Salman Siddique on Monday informed the apex court that over Rs 47 billion were evaded as 23,882 containers of commercial category under Afghan Transit Trade (ATT) destined from Karachi port to Afghanistan were missing. A three-member bench ...

Leaders of the countries involved in the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan will meet on Saturday on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Lisbon to discuss further steps aimed at establishing peace and order in the war-ravaged country. Two major issues are to be discussed during ...

ISLAMABAD NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan has apologised over its Thursdays cross-border helicopters attack that killed three Pakistani soldiers and injured three others. Well-placed sources privy to the joint investigation being conducted into the incident ...

LAHORE - Former army chief Gen Mirza Aslam Beg on Tuesday bitterly criticised the government for involving Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani in the conflict between the executive and the judiciary, and demanded that the Pakistan Air Force should be tasked to shoot down the helicopters and drones involved in ...

PESHAWAR (AFP) Security officials said Tuesday that five people were killed and two wounded by NATO cross-border fire from Afghanistan in the third such incident in days. They said members of the US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in the eastern Afghan province of Khost shelled ...

KANDAHAR MILITARY BASE, Afghanistan (AFP) - Between 10,000 and 15,000 more troops are needed to maintain security in restive southern Afghanistan, NATOs commander in the region told AFP in an interview Thursday. In RC (regional command) south, to really complete the 'shape, clear, hold, build, we ...

Helicopters with a NATO-led force in Afghanistan were fired on from a Pakistan military checkpoint Thursday, the force said, adding there was no damage or casualties. The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) stressed however that the helicopters had not crossed Pakistani airspace. ...

ISLAMABAD - Commander of International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) for Afghanistan General David McKiernan Friday said that the allied forces respect Pakistani borders and the incident of bombing of a Pakistani border post in Mohmand Agency in FATA would never be repeated, according to a ...