ANGOOR ADDA: Pakistan's military took the rare step of flying international media to the border with Afghanistan Wednesday to showcase its efforts to harden the porous, militancy-wracked frontier: a chain-link fence shrouded in barbed wire.
The roughly 10-foot tall fence — which Pakistan announced it had begun building in March — stretches through parts of the rugged tribal districts of North and South Waziristan along the Afghan border.
Over recent decades militants from the Afghan Taliban, al-Qaeda, and other groups…
NEW YORK: Laying emphasis on effective border management, Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif on Wednesday said that such border management with Afghanistan is imperative to curb infiltration of terrorists.
Speaking at the Asia Society seminar in New York, Pakistan's foreign minister said that the country cannot owe responsibility for peace and stability in Afghanistan.
Asif said that United States cannot succeed in Afghanistan by waging war since US troops are fighting the insurgents for last 16 years. “Afghan conflict can…
ISLAMABAD: To ensure better border management, Pakistan and Iran agreed to restore the hotline contact between Pakistan and Iran and constitute operational committees as part of efforts to alleviate reservations, officials apprised media after the visiting Iranian foreign minister held wide-ranging talks with Pakistan’s civil and military authorities.
Iranian Foreign Minister Dr Javed Zarif separately called on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Interior Minister Ch Nisar Ali Khan and Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General…
PESHAWAR: Director General Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Lieutenant General Asim Bajwa on Tuesday said Pakistan’s armed forces were carefully and closely monitoring the developing situation on its eastern border with India.
QUETTA/ISLAMABAD: Amid escalating tensions between Islamabad and Kabul over the construction of a gate at the Torkham border, Pakistani officials on Friday confirmed to have started building a gate, this time near the Iranian border of the country at Taftan.
RAWALPINDI: A delegation of Afghan National Army visited headquarters of southern command in Quetta to discuss border security and the matters of mutual interest, a statement of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said.
RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif has reached Kabul, where he will be meeting top Afghan civil and military officials, ARY News reported.
RAWALPINDI: A Corps Commanders Conference with Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen Raheel Sharif in chair was held at General Headquarters (GHQ) on Thursday, the ISPR said in a statement.