Pakistan deploys troops to seal Afghan border
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Hundreds of Pakistani troops took up positions in two northwest towns bordering Afghanistan amid reports of an offensive by Afghan forces, officials and residents said.
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Afghanistan's ambassador said Wednesday that real power in Pakistan is in the hands of that nation's army and it is capable of countering extremism and terrorism along the countries' border.
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The presidents of Pakistan and Afghanistan pledged Wednesday to increase the cooperation of their intelligence agencies and tighten border controls in an effort to crack down on Taliban and al-Qaida-linked militants along the two countries' chaotic border region.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistani troops backed by artillery and aircraft attacked two suspected terrorist hideouts near the rugged Afghan border on Saturday, killing and wounding a number of militants, Pakistan army and security officials said.    The attack was launched near Shakai in the South Waziristan tribal region, scene of several military counterterrorism operations against al-Qaida fugitives and renegade tribesmen in the recent months...
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Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf has conceded that some border guards had turned a &quot;blind eye&quot; towards Taliban militants launching attacks in Afghanistan.
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The Pakistani military says it has knocked out several militant bases in the Afghan border region.
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QUETTA, Pakistan  - Pakistan told a visiting U.S. official on Thursday it was trying its best to plug its long, porous border with Afghanistan and denied Taliban leaders were hiding in Pakistan.
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WANA -- About 1,000 Pakistani soldiers backed by helicopter gunships, mortars, and artillery yesterday pounded a mountainous region near the Afghan border where a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner who masterminded the kidnapping of two Chinese engineers is thought to be hiding. The assault targeted the village of Spinkai Raghzai in South Waziristan, a tribal region where the Pakistani Army has ...
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The Pakistani army deploys around 2,500 troops in the remote valley of Swat to combat pro-Taleban militants.
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Twenty-three suspected militant fighters and seven soldiers have died in fighting on the Pakistan border with Afghanistan
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Pakistan's government is equipping and sending militants into Afghanistan, a state-run Afghan paper said on Wednesday, the harshest criticism yet against Islamabad in the face of the bloodiest violence since the Taliban's fall.
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Pakistani troops backed by artillery and aircraft attacked two suspected terrorist hideouts near the rugged Afghan border on Saturday, security officials said.
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WASHINgTON: For the first time, it has been officially stated that there are over 100,000 Pakistani troops on the country&#39;s border with Afghanistan.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Thousands of American and Afghan troops unleashed a new offensive against Taliban militants in eastern Afghanistan yesterday in an effort to expand the government's reach into the volatile Pakistani border region.
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Palestinian security forces will be deployed along the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel this week.
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan, July 16 â In hopes of restoring a fragile peace with militant groups in the region along its border with Afghanistan, the Pakistani government dispatched a team of tribal elders there today to meet with leaders of the groups.
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The Pakistani army has said it has tightened the noose around al-Qaida-linked fighters hiding near the Afghan border. &quot;Around 600 to 700 foreign militants are still in the tribal area,&quot; said on Saturday Major