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Pakistan cuts NATO supply line after border firing (AP)

September 30th, 2010

A US Army Chinook helicopter with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) is seen in 2009 close to the Pakistan border. NATO helicopters Thursday shelled a Pakistani paramilitary checkpoint and killed three soldiers in a cross border attack, security officials said.(AFP/File/Romeo Gacad)AP - Pakistan blocked a vital supply route for U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan on Thursday in apparent retaliation for an alleged cross-border helicopter strike by the coalition that…

Pakistan say NATO airstrikes breach its air space (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 vehemently protested NATO helicopter strikes that killed more than 70 militants, saying Monday that U.N. rules do not allow the choppers to cross into its air space…

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…

NATO strikes in Pakistan, pushes ahead in Kandahar (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 - NATO helicopters in eastern Afghanistan launched rare airstrikes into Pakistan, killing more than 50 militants and prompting a protest from Islamabad, while international forces pressed ahead with a combat…

NATO forces carry out airstrikes in Pakistan (AP)

September 27th, 2010

A U.S. Apache helicopter (L) provides support as a Black Hawk helicopter lands at Cop Cherokee base in Kherwar district in Logar province October 4, 2009. REUTERS/Nikola Solic/FilesAP - NATO helicopters based in Afghanistan carried out at least two airstrikes in Pakistan that killed more than 50 militants after the insurgents attacked a small Afghan security outpost…

Plane arrives in Pakistan after false bomb threat (AP)

September 26th, 2010

A Pakistan International Airlines airplane at Manchester Airport Manchester, England, Saturday Sept. 25, 2010. The aircraft was held earlier in the day in Stockholm when Swedish police evacuated the plane carrying 273 people and detained one passenger after Canadian authorities received a tip-off that he was carrying explosives. However, no explosives were found on the man, who was released after questioning by police, or on the Boeing 777.  (AP Photo/Jon Super)AP - Relatives thronged an airport in southern Pakistan on Sunday to greet passengers whose flight from Canada was diverted to Sweden after a baseless report that a man aboard…

US wants more aid recognition in Pakistan (AP)

September 25th, 2010

In this photo taken on Aug. 11, 2010, Pakistani volunteers unload food relief from a U.S. Chinook helicopter in flood-affected Swat valley, Pakistan. Concerned that U.S. help to Pakistan is not getting enough recognition, Washington is making a new push to get binternational/b aid groups it funds to advertise the fact. But it is meeting resistance from partners worried U.S. branding could prompt Taliban attacks. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)AP - Concerned that U.S. help to Pakistan is not getting enough recognition, Washington is making a new push to get international aid groups it funds to advertise the fact.…

Missile strike kills 4 militants in NW Pakistan (AP)

September 25th, 2010

A group of Pakistani students hold a rally to condemn the verdict against alleged al-Qaida suspect Aafia Siddique, in Bannu, Pakistan, Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010. Siddique, a U.S.-trained Pakistani scientist convicted of trying to kill U.S. agents and military officers in Afghanistan, was sentenced Thursday to 86 years in prison. (AP Photo/Ijaz Muhammmad)AP - Intelligence officials say a suspected U.S. missile strike has killed four alleged militants in northwestern Pakistan.


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Pakistan jet evacuated in Sweden after bomb threat (AP)

September 25th, 2010

AP - Swedish police on Saturday detained a man who had been aboard a plane from Canada to Pakistan that made an emergency landing in Stockholm after Canadian authorities received…

Pakistan plane lands in Sweden after bomb threat (AP)

September 25th, 2010

AP - A plane carrying 273 people bound from Canada for Pakistan landed Saturday at Stockholm’s Arlanda airport because of a bomb threat on board, airport and police officials said.

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