Tag: Nato

KABUL - Seven civilians, three of them children, were killed and five others wounded in a NATO air strike targeting insurgents in restive southern Afghanistan, a local official said Saturday. The governor of Helmand province said the two men, two women and three children died when the car they were travelling in was hit by NATO fire late Friday.
Earlier, NATO said its International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) called in an air strike on two vehicles believed to be carrying a

LAHORE - Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has threatened to block the supply route for NATO forces in Afghanistan if the US did not stop drone attacks inside the tribal areas of the country in a month.
Addressing a PTI rally at Qartaba Chowk against the desecration of the Holy Quran by a US priest, release of Raymond Davis and killing of innocent people in drone attacks, Imran asked the government to adopt immediate measures to stop the US strikes in the Tribal

NAPLES - A NATO maritime task force charged with preventing arms from entering Libya said on Thursday they cannot be sure of blocking all routes into the country but "are closing the main front door." "The sea is the easiest, fastest and most direct way to get arms into Libya. We are cutting off that area," Rinaldo Veri, head of Operation Protector told reporters at NATO's navy base in Naples, headquarters for the embargo mission. "I hope we can close all the windows, but one thing is

KHOST - An Afghan child was shot and killed by international forces targeting insurgents in the restive east of the country on Wednesday, police said, triggering a NATO investigation. Coalition forces opened fire from the air on a car carrying a group of militants in eastern Khost province but accidentally struck another vehicle, killing the child, provincial police chief Abdul Hakim Esahaqaai told AFP. He said two other civilians were injured in the incident in Khost, one of the

TRIPOLI/SANAA - Muammar Gaddafi's government said it was declaring a unilateral ceasefire in its offensive to crush Libya's revolt on Friday, while Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh announced a state of emergency after medics said 46 people were killed when pro-regime loyalists and police opened fire on protesters in Sanaa.
Libyan government troops pounded the rebel-held western city of Misrata, killing at least 25 people including children and injuring at least 200, a doctor

KARACHI
TARIQ HABIB
The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan might not have heard of General Zia-ul-Haq, but drugs are being smuggled to them by tribes living along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, Pakistan Today has learnt. ISAF troops, seemingly short on cash, are paying for these drugs by supplying weapons to those who provide them with heroin.
Heroin is being smuggled by transporters responsible for taking supplies to the ISAF

KABUL - An airstrike by NATO-led forces killed two children as they were watering fields in Afghanistan's eastern Kunar province late on Monday, an Afghan official and lawmaker said. The deaths occurred weeks after tensions between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his Western backers were inflamed by the killing of nine children who were collecting firewood in the same province.
Last year was the most lethal for non-combatants since the Taliban were ousted from power in 2001,

ASADABAD - An emotional Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday urged international troops to "stop their operations in our land", his strongest criticism yet of mistaken killings of civilians. Karzai's comments came after a week in which a relative of his was killed in a raid by foreign forces and he rejected an apology by the US commander of troops General David Petraeus for the deaths of nine children in a NATO strike.
"I would like to ask NATO and the US with honour and

BRUSSELS - The NATO allies Friday agreed new rules under which they can withdraw their troops from Afghanistan as US Defence Secretary Robert Gates slammed 'too much talk about leaving'. The alliance Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen announced the deal looking ahead to a 2014 deadline to pass control to the Afghan security forces after Gates warned that early withdrawal would jeopardise the war effort just as the Taliban had lost the upper hand. "Frankly, there is too much talk

LONDON - British newspaper Telegraph has claimed that Iran is supporting Taliban to defeat NATO force in Afghanistan. According to the report, British Special Forces last month seized a large quantity of Iranian- Made rockets hidden in three trucks after a fierce fight with Taliban in the southern afghan province of Nimroz, bordering Iran. A spokesman for NATO forces in Afghanistan said that after tests, the weapon experts determined that these rockets had been made in an Iranian

QUETTA - The military officials of NATO and Pakistan held a meeting on Friday to discuss the security issues and the attacks on the vehicles carrying supplies to Afghanistan in Balochistan. A 13-member NATO delegation led by Maj General James I Terry arrived in Quetta the morning in two helicopters from Kandahar province of Afghanistan. They later went to the Corps Headquarters and met Commander Southern Command Lt Gen Javed Zia.
The NATO officials expressed their grave concern

KARACHI - The transportation of commercial and strategic cargo to Afghanistan under the Pak-Afghan Transit Trade (PATT) has come to a complete halt, Pakistan Today learnt Wednesday.
According to well-placed sources, the suspension came after the National Logistic Cell (NLC) and the Customs authorities stopped clearing the Afghanistan-bound commercial and strategic cargo in view of the ongoing probe into the alleged disappearance of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)

KABUL - Four NATO soldiers were killed on Monday in a wave of insurgent attacks across Afghanistan, the international force said. Three of the soldiers died in separate improvised bomb blasts in the west, south and east of Afghanistan, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said.
An Afghan government spokesman in the western city of Herat said that the soldier who died in the province was Italian and that three other Italian soldiers were wounded in the same blast.

PESHAWAR - Four people were killed and another six injured when suspected militants struck at a NATO oil tankers terminal on the outskirts of Peshawar on Friday.
Around 25 armed men attacked Jamil terminal in Garhi Qamar Din and torched 16 of the 40 tankers parked there. Peshawar Capital Chief Police Officer Liaqat Ali told Pakistan Today that the attacks took place in the wee hours of the morning and investigations were underway.
Meanwhile, senior police official Imtiaz

GODOLLO - NATO and the EU piled pressure on Moamer Gaddafi's regime on Friday, joining forces to rescue foreigners stranded in Libya while EU governments prepared to take part in a possible no-fly zone. As the European Union prepared sanctions against Tripoli, NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen met with EU defence ministers in Godollo, Hungary, to discuss the vast evacuation effort under way in the strife-torn country.
Rasmussen also convened a separate emergency meeting of the

QUETTA - A man was killed and ten others wounded in separate incidents of firing and rocket attack in different areas of Balochistan on Thursday while an Iran-bound goods train derailed after a railway track had been blown up in District Chaghi. Officials said armed men opened fire on a trailer carrying NATO supplies near Wadh area of Khuzdar some 360 KM away from Quetta on RCD Highway.
As a result an occupant identified as Usman Ali resident of Sheikhupura died on the spot while

ISLAMABAD - The Ministries of Defence and Commerce, on Thursday, refused to take responsibility for NATO and ISAF transit facility, saying that they were mere signatories to the agreement.
The National Assembly Standing Committee on Commerce met under the chairmanship of Khurram Dastagir Khan and decided to call the Minister of Defence to clarify the issue in the next meeting. The meeting was called to probe legal arrangements governing NATO and ISAF transit facility to