ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 9 (UPI) — Five U.S. citizens who had been reported missing have been arrested in Pakistan on suspicion of planning terrorist attacks, a Pakistani official said.
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WASHINGTON: U.S. Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, overall commander of forces in Afghanistan, said the war in Afghanistan hinged on securing the population from armed insurgents and not outright combat.
He said the increased security situation in Afghanistan is of utmost importance for Pakistan while the Pakistani officials are fully aware of this fact.
This US General stated talking to a state radio station. He linked stability in Afghanistan with working in cooperation with Afghan government.
It is vital to defeat Taliban to prevent al-Qaeda from getting active again, he added.
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WASHINGTON: Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry says what happens in Pakistan is as critical to American success in South Asia as what happens on the ground in Afghanistan.
Kerry said “it would be a mistake in Pakistan or anywhere to believe” that President Barack Obama’’s statement about drawing down forces by mid-2011 in Afghanistan means the United States would be withdrawing from the region.
Speaking at the start of a hearing on the addition of 30,000 U.S. troops to the war in Afghanistan, the Massachusetts Democrat said the “interconnected forces” aligned against the U.S. “do not stop at the Pakistan border, so our efforts can”t stop there either.” The panel was to hear from Gen. David Petraeus.
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Five young Muslim American men who had disappeared were detained in Pakistan in a raid linked to a militant group.
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Islamabad
The Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA) and Pakistan National Commission for Unesco joined hands in organising a seminar and
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Karachi
The Karachi Electric Supply Company has announced that under its major recovery drive for December, power connections of 22 government
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Islamabad
Recognising the value of volunteerism in a country struggling to uproot the menace of terrorism from its soil, the Pakistan Red Cresc
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