Source: Tehran Times
TEHRAN – Pakistan’s charge d’Affaires to Iran Nasrullah Khan said that Tehran and Islamabad are cooperating very well on the security of their borders.
“Pakistan is very sensitive about Iran’s security concerns,” he told reporters conference on Saturday on the sidelines of a ceremony held to mark Pakistan’s Defense Day.
“We call Iran-Pakistan border a […]

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Source: AFP
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari said in an interview broadcast Sunday that Islamabad’s military is capable of quelling militant elements on its border with Afghanistan, and again urged the US military against launching incursions into its territory.
“Let us do the job, we can do a better job than anybody else can. […]

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Source: Associated Press
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s security forces pounded militant positions near strategic areas in a tribal region bordering Afghanistan, killing 25 suspected insurgents in a new round of a military offensive that also left three troops dead, officials said.
Security forces on Friday cleared militant compounds near Bajur’s Rashakai and Loi Sam areas, army […]

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Source: Gazette
It is unclear whether Pakistani troops actually confronted and turned back U.S. troops on the verge of crossing the border from Afghanistan a few days ago in pursuit of Taliban forces that had conducted a raid in Afghanistan and slipped back into Pakistan. What does seem clear is that the Pakistani government has more-or-less […]

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Source: AFP
ISLAMABAD (AFP) — US military chief Admiral Michael Mullen Wednesday reiterated Washington respects Pakistan’s sovereignty after a row sparked by recent cross-border raids by US forces based in Afghanistan.
Mullen held talks with Pakistan’s top army official and the prime minister amid tensions over US raids on tribal areas bordering Afghanistan, known hideouts of Taliban […]

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Source: The Associated Press

Missiles hit a religious school in a village just inside Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan on Monday, killing six people, intelligence officials and state media said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but the incident follows a series of strikes from unmanned U.S. aircraft in recent months against militant leaders in Pakistan’s wild […]

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Source: Reuters

NATO forces in Afghanistan attacked targets inside Pakistan with artillery and attack helicopters after coming under rocket fire from across the border, the alliance said on Wednesday.
Tension is high along the border with a sharp rise in attacks in eastern Afghanistan coming from inside Pakistan that Afghan and NATO officials blame on de-facto ceasefires […]

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Source: AP
Pakistan has renewed an offer to fence the country’s porous border with Afghanistan to stop crossings by militants.
Afghan and U.S. officials complain militants fighting in Afghanistan freely roam the 1,500-mile border.
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani says in a Monday statement that Pakistan is prepared to build a fence.
The idea was first proposed by Pakistan’s […]

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Sources: Bloomberg
By Gregory Viscusi
 
U.S.-led coalition forces killed 55 Taliban militants in Afghanistan near the border with Pakistan border in a three-day battle, the coalition said in a statement.
Operations began June 20 when coalition forces were ambushed in the eastern province of Paktika. The coalition repulsed that attack with small-arms fire, and then pursued the militants […]

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Sources: Rediff News
Ninety-six Indian fishermen, who were released by Pakistan will be reaching Veraval town in Saurashtra where they will reunite with their family members after a gap of two years. The fishermen were arrested by Pakistan for straying across the border.
Though the fishermen were handed over to the Indian authorities at the Wagah […]

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Source: NDTV
Two boys, who are brothers have been arrested in Barmer for illegally crossing over from Pakistan.
Azhar Ali, 20-years-old and his 10-year-old brother Zoaib claim they crossed over to India at the border at Munnabao because they had a fight with their parents.
They say they now want to go back home but Indian security agencies […]

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Source: USA Today
TORKHAM (AP) — U.S., Afghan and Pakistani officers opened the first of six joint military intelligence centers along the Afghan-Pakistan border Saturday, an effort to cut down on militants’ movement in a region of rising terrorist activity.
The centers represent the latest step in American efforts to get Afghanistan and Pakistan to coordinate […]

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Source: The Hindu
New Delhi (PTI): BJP on Wednesday welcomed the victory of “democratic forces” in Pakistan and expected the new rulers to work for a “negotiated and peaceful” settlement of issues with India and take steps to stem cross-border terrorism.
The party, whose government initiated the historic peace process with the then Pervez Musharraf regime in […]

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Source: BBC News
Three Pakistani security forces have been killed in a bomb explosion near a military convoy in the tribal region of north-western Pakistan, the army said.
The blast happened near Khair, the main town in the Bajaur tribal area on the border with Afghanistan.
The dead included a senior paramilitary officer, officials said.
The incident comes ahead […]

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Source: Bloomberg
Feb. 4 (Bloomberg) — Two employees of the International Committee of the Red Cross have gone missing from Pakistan’s Khyber Agency that borders Afghanistan, Dawn newspaper reported today, citing the aid agency.
The missing aid workers were on their way to Afghanistan when they disappeared in the tribal border region, the newspaper reported, citing Sitara […]

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Source: The Star
By: Bruce Campion-Smith
OTTAWA–Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion is in hot water with Pakistan after suggesting NATO could intervene in that country to help control its border with Afghanistan.
In a pointed rebuke, the Pakistan embassy said yesterday it was “dismayed” that Dion would suggest a role for the military alliance within its borders.
“It shows a […]

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