Posts Tagged ‘ pakistan ’

Pakistan disagrees with airstrike findings

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 23 (UPI) — The Pakistani army Friday rejected the U.S. military’s findings on a NATO airstrike along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in which 24 of its soldiers died. (read the story …)

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World Bank sets $5.5 billion in aid for Pakistan

The World Bank on Thursday said it would provide Pakistan with $5.5 billion in development aid over the next two years. (get the story…)

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Pakistan’s court weighs up scandal inquiry

Pakistan’s Supreme Court built pressure on the country’s embattled leader Monday, weighing whether to open a probe into a memo allegedly from a presidential ally seeking US help to curb the military. (get the story…)

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Pakistan mulls tax on NATO shipments

While border remains closed to Afghanistan-bound trucks, Pakistan considers capitalizing on its supply routes (read the story …)

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NATO drivers to US, Pakistan: Keep us truckin’

It’s day 20 of Pakistan’s blockade on NATO’s Afghanistan supply lines, and few people are watching for updates more closely than Ijaz Khan. (read the story …)

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Pakistan’s NATO blockade enters third week

Pakistan’s blockade of the vital US supply line into Afghanistan entered a third week, its longest closure of the 10-year war with no imminent sign of the border reopening. (read more…)

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4 reasons the U.S.-Pakistan alliance will survive

Islamabad is furious with Washington after NATO airstrikes kill two dozen Pakistani soldiers. Still, a diplomatic divorce may not be in the cards (read more…)

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Pakistan wants equality over Oz uranium sale after India ban lifted

Pakistan has reportedly expressed its desire to be allowed access to uranium from Australia, after a long-standing ban on exporting the substance to India was overturned. (the story here…)

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Pakistan lobbied on Bonn boycott

The US leads calls for Pakistan to reconsider its boycott of next week’s Bonn Conference on Afghanistan’s future. (read the story…)

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Pakistan to boycott Bonn talks

Pakistan is to boycott next week’s talks in Bonn on Afghanistan’s future in protest at a Nato air strike which killed 24 of its soldiers, officials say. (read the story…)

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