Tag: Cross-border
Cross-border fire angers US troops in Afghanistan
US and Afghan soldiers near the border with Pakistan have faced a sharply increased volume of rocket fire from Pakistani territory in the past...
Gen Kayani warns of ‘hot pursuit’ to curb cross-border attacks
Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani demanded on Saturday a halt to repeated cross-border terrorist attacks into Pakistani territory from Afghanistan and...
Uphill battle against Afghan cross-border strikes
Perched high in a twisting Hindukush valley with distant views of Pakistan, Combat Outpost Monti is an idyllic spot. But it is also one...
Stop cross-border Taliban attacks, Kayani tells ISAF
Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on Friday asked the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) to prevent cross-border Taliban attacks from...
Afghanistan joins Tajikistan, Kyrgyz Republic cross-border transport accord
Afghanistan, Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan have finalised an agreement that will allow Afghanistan to take part in a cross-border transport accord (CBTA) recently ratified...
Cross-border Taliban raid kills 25 troops
Hundreds of Taliban militants from Afghanistan launched a pre-dawn cross-border raid on security forces’ checkposts in the border regions of Chitral district on Saturday,...
3 killed, 4 hurt in cross-border raid by Afghan militants
Militants from Afghanistan launched a pre-dawn cross-border raid on paramilitary posts in the Chitral district on Saturday, killing three soldiers and wounding four, security...
2 killed in cross-border attack on Bajaur
Mortar shells fired from across the border in Afghanistan hit a house in Bajaur Agency on Thursday, killing two people and injuring several children,...
President arrives in Kabul today to take up cross-border incursions
President Asif Ali Zardari will arrive in Kabul today (Tuesday) for a daylong visit during which he will discuss the recent cross-border attacks from...
500 Afghans protest ‘Pakistani cross-border attacks’
Hundreds of Afghans took to the streets on Monday chanting “death to Pakistani invaders” to protest against cross-border attacks that they claim have killed...
Pakistan kills 10 cross-border attackers in Bajaur Agency
At least 10 militants were killed on Friday in an operation by security forces in Bajaur Agency, close to the Afghan border.
Officials in Khar,...
Five killed in cross-border militant attack in Bajaur
Scores of armed militants crossed the border from Afghanistan on Thursday and stormed a village in Pakistan's tribal belt, killing five civilians, Pakistani officials...
Cross-border attack kills 30, Pakistan protests
Pakistan lodged a strong protest with Afghanistan on Thursday on a cross-border terrorist attack inside its territory by around 400 militants that killed at...
