U.S. to Step Up Training of Pakistanis
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The U.S. military plans to significantly expand and accelerate its counterinsurgency training and provision of equipment for Pakistan's armed forces this year as part of a five-year, $2 billion U.S.-Pakistani effort to help stabilize the country, senior U.S. and Pakistani officials said.
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WASHINGTON -- President Bush's homeland security adviser said yesterday that the United States was prepared to take additional measures, including military force, to curb Al Qaeda's operations in remote regions of Pakistan.
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US citizens should obtain Pakistani government permission for travel in rural areas of that country, the US State Department said in an updated travel advisory.
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The director of national intelligence said Al Qaeda is gaining in strength from its refuge in Pakistan and is enhancing its ability to recruit operatives.
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Hundreds of U.S. soldiers have established their northernmost base in Afghanistan, pushing further up the border with Pakistan to block militants crossing jagged mountains, train fledgling local forces and build support among wary tribesmen.
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The United States is keen on strengthening its growing defense ties with India, which currently encompass a wide range of military-to-military exchanges and joint exercises
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The US is rolling out a nine-country, $125 million military training program.
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With just 18 days until a pivotal election, the United States is pressing Pakistan to help end the intimidation of candidates and voters by intelligence officers and local government officials, which could discredit the election's outcome and provoke new instability, according to U.S. and Pakista...
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In Diyala, the vast province northeast of Baghdad where Sunnis and Shiites are battling for primacy with mortars and nighttime abductions, the U.S. government has contracted the job of promoting democracy to a Pakistani citizen who has never lived or worked in a democracy.
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The United States provided a steady stream of intelligence to Benazir Bhutto about threats against her before the former Pakistani prime minister was assassinated and advised her aides on how to boost security, although key suggestions appear to have gone unheeded, U.S. officials said Monday.
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MANAMA, Bahrain -- Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates thanked Pakistan yesterday for what he said were stepped-up efforts to crack down on the flow of fighters from its border regions into Afghanistan.
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Incoming Border Patrol agents will train closer to the U.S.-Mexican border when the federal government relocates their academy to Artesia, N.M., Customs and Border Protection announced Thursday.
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US President George W. Bush and his Pakistani counterpart Pervez Musharraf promised here on Wednesday to strengthen cooperation in the war on terror and in the areas of trade and economy.
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The political upheaval in Pakistan and emergence there of a new military leader has revitalized the Bush administration's long struggle to develop a coherent strategy for uprooting al-Qaeda from Pakistan's western tribal areas, U.S. officials said yesterday.
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LONDON, Dec 7  - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, speaking Tuesday during an official visit to Britain, urged US-led multinational forces to hasten their departure from Iraq by training local troops more quickly.
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ISLAMABAD: Senior US officials on Tuesday held their first talks with Pakistani officials since President George W. Bush won a second term and promised to work even more closely with key anti-terror ally, officials said.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - The United States and its allies have moved closer to capturing Osama bin Laden in the last two months, a top U.S. counterterrorism official said in a television interview broadcast...