Tag: Pak-Afghan

Secured borders mean secured countries

National Consultative Forum promotes improved border management for Pak-Afghan internal security Improved border management is important for the national security of Pakistan and Afghanistan, said...

Ghani vows to overcome Pak-Afghan challenges with joint efforts

Pakistani political delegation discuss anti-terror cooperation, enhanced bilateral ties with Afghan government Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Saturday told senior Pakistani political leaders that the...

Time for a healthy discussion

Pak-Afghan MPs dialogue to kick off today   A two-day Pak-Afghan Parliamentarians dialogue will begin here Tuesday. The event is co-hosted by the Senate’s Standing Committee...

Taliban mount offensive near Pak-Afghan border

Taliban fighters killed at least five Afghan soldiers in a three-day offensive in a region near Pakistan, officials said on Tuesday, as fighting heats...

Trench along Pak-Afghan border enrages Kabul

In the dusty badlands along its disputed border with Afghanistan, Pakistan is carving out a massive trench to keep out separatists, smugglers and militants...

Mullah Fazlullah said to have escaped drone strike near Pak-Afghan border

The chief of the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has escaped a US drone strike in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province close to the border with Pakistan,...

Pakistan to get leftover Afghan war equipment: Defence Secretary

Defence Secretary Asif Yasin Malik on Monday said Pakistan would be receiving the United States’ leftover military hardware after the completion of withdrawal of...

Pak-Afghan conference exploring avenues for peace

  FATA, PATA must be incorporated in Pakistan, demands Afghan delegate Govt control over FATA is disastrous for Pakistan, says Pak delegate Pakistan-Afghanistan Bilateral Conference 2013 organised...

Aziz confirms Pak-Afghan consensus over relocation of Taliban office

Adviser on foreign affairs says Pakistan to try all to bring peace in war-torn Afghanistan LoC tensions result of India’s ceasefire violations Ties with US to...

Pakistan should respect Afghanistan’s sovereignty: ex foreign secretary

A stable Afghanistan is going to be in the country’s interest while a destabilized Afghanistan can potentially hurt Pakistan more than any other country,...

New restrictions inconveniencing Pak-Afghan cross-border travellers

The federal government’s latest decision regarding the crossing of the Afghan border with mandatory travelling documents has resulted in several problems for thousands of...

Karzai’s allegations may bottleneck Pak-Afghan progress

Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s claim that the failed suicide bombing that injured his intelligence chief Asadullah Khalid was planned in Quetta may affect the...

Pak-Afghan intelligence should have close ties: Hamid Gul

A former Pakistani Army Intelligence – Inter Service Intelligence (ISI) official has called on the Afghan security ministers to maintain a good relationship with...

Pak-Afghan Torkhum border to have bio-metric system

Bio-metric system will be installed on Pak-Afghan Torkhum border in the next week to counter terrorism. Interior ministry has informed Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa (KP) government...

US hopes for coordination in stamping out militancy on Pak-Afghan border

Seeing improvement in US-Pakistan ties since the resumption of key Pakistani supplies corridor into Afghanistan, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has voiced the hope...

Pak-Afghan team to probe border shelling

Afghanistan and Pakistan have agreed to send a joint military team to investigate a recent surge in cross-border attacks that have soured relations between...

US trying to ease Pak-Afghan border tension, says Pentagon

The Pentagon has said it was working with both Afghanistan and Pakistan to reduce tension between the two neighbors over cross-border skirmishes. “We...