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US apologizes for attack on Pakistani soldiers (AP)

October 6th, 2010

Drivers of Afghanistan-bound NATO vehicles are parked at Pakistani border town of Torkham wait on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010. Pakistan blocked a vital supply route for U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan in apparent retaliation for an alleged cross-border helicopter strike by the coalition that killed three Pakistani frontier troops. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)AP - The U.S. apologized Wednesday for a recent helicopter attack that killed two Pakistani soldiers at an outpost near the Afghan border, saying American pilots mistook the soldiers for…

NATO strikes in Pakistan prompt rebuke (AP)

September 27th, 2010

A British soldier mans his position at the rear of a helicopter as it is flies over Helmand province in Afghanistan in August, 2010. Security forces Monday stepped up the hunt for British woman and three Afghans reportedly working for a US development group who were kidnapped in eastern Afghanistan, police said.(AFP/Pool/File/Andrew Winning)AP - Pakistan disputed NATO’s claim Monday that its forces have the right of hot pursuit across the Afghan border after coalition helicopters launched airstrikes that killed more than 50…

3 bombs kill 36 in northwest Pakistan (AP)

August 23rd, 2010

AP - Three bomb attacks in northwest Pakistan — two in tribal regions near the Afghan border and a third near the region’s main city of Peshawar — killed at…

Officials: US drones kill 6 in northwest Pakistan (AP)

August 21st, 2010

A Pakistani woman weeps as she stands with others crowding around a Pakistan Army helicopter after it arrived to deliver food aid for the United Nations World Food Program in  the flood encircled village of Tul in , Sindh Province, southern Pakistan, Friday, Aug. 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)AP - Suspected U.S. missiles fired from an unmanned drone killed six militants Saturday in a Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border, officials said.


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Pakistan under pressure after NY car bomb (AP)

May 11th, 2010

A soldier of Pakistani paramilitary force searches an Afghan man at a post of Pakistan-Afghanistan border of Chaman, Pakistan, Monday, May 10, 2010. Pakistani authorities beefed up security at Afghan borders as Pakistani army fight against Taliban and militants in Pakistani tribal region of Waziristan along the Afghanistan border, official said. (AP Photo/Shah Khalid)AP - U.S. claims that the Pakistani Taliban were behind last week’s failed car bombing in Times Square add pressure on Pakistan’s government to attack the militant sanctuary of North…

Intel officials: US missiles kill 10 in Pakistan (AP)

May 9th, 2010

A man arranges fabrics at a makeshift shop in Karachi May 9, 2010. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: BUSINESS SOCIETY)AP - Suspected U.S. missiles killed 10 people in a militant-controlled region close to the Afghan border Sunday, the first such strike since an alleged Pakistani-trained extremist was linked to…

On the run, Pakistan militants find new haven (AP)

April 21st, 2010

In this photo released by Pakistan's Inter Services Public Relations department on  Nov. 2, 2009, Pakistani soldiers are seen detaining alleged militants at undisclosed location during their ongoing military operation along the border with Afghanistan in Pakistan's tribal area of Waziristan. The influx of militants in North Waziristan during the last three months will add to pressure on the army to launch an offensive there.  (AP Photo/Inter Services Public Relations)  NO SALESAP - They were never routed, no matter what Pakistan claimed. Instead, the Taliban and al-Qaida fighters have merely relocated. They’re still near the Afghan border.


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Kidnapping reflects fears of Pakistan minorities (AP)

March 22nd, 2010

In this photo made on March 19, 2010, Surjeet Singh, from Pakistan's Sikh community, kisses his son after his release in Peshawar, Pakistan.  Singh, who had been kidnapped for ransom by alleged militants, was freed after 42 days as a result of a crackdown operation by security forces. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)AP - Five Sikh men who fled their hometown on the Afghan border were making a quick trip back home when masked men blocked their way with a pickup on…

Pakistani Taliban kill 4, calling them US spies (AP)

March 21st, 2010

Pakistani tribesmen participate in traditional dance, after a tribal jirga or meeting in Peshawar, Pakistan, Saturday, March 20, 2010. Hundreds of tribesmen from the semiautonomous regions near the Afghan border ended a rare tribal council meeting Saturday with a declaration saying that democracy is the only way to fight terrorism. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)AP - The bullet-riddled bodies of four Pakistani tribesmen, killed by the Taliban for allegedly spying for the United States, were found Sunday in a semiautonomous tribal region near the…