Roadside bomb kills six troops in Hangu

Staff Report

HANGU: A roadside bomb blast killed a lieutenant colonel and five soldiers in Hangu district on Friday.

Three more Frontier Corps paramilitary troops were injured in the bombing which took place near Yakh Kandao village in Hangu.

According to FC sources, the paramilitary troops were on patrol when they were hit by a remote-controlled bomb.

The injured were shifted to Combined Military Hospital (CMH), Kohat.

Following the attack, troops surrounded the area and started to hunt for suspected militants holed up in the mountainous region. SAMAA

NATO supply resumes after 11-day halt

PESHAWAR: NATO supplies through Pakistan’s Torkham border crossing into Afghanistan resumed Sunday, 11 days after Islamabad closed the point in response to a NATO air attack, officials said.

“The first convoy of more than a dozen vehicles left for Afghanistan this afternoon,” customs official Mohammad Nawaz told AFP.

More vehicles loaded with supplies for NATO and US troops were ready to leave, he added.

Pakistan’s foreign ministry on Saturday announced the reopening of the main land route for NATO supplies “with immediate effect”.

US and NATO forces are fighting a nine-year Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan and the route is vital to the war effort.

The decision came after US ambassador to Pakistan Anne Patterson on Wednesday apologised on behalf of the American people for the “terrible accident”.

Pakistan shut the main Khyber Pass

Seven US troops killed in Afghanistan

WASHINGTON: Seven US troops were killed in Afghanistan Monday, five of them in a single roadside explosion in the eastern part of the country, a Pentagon spokeswoman said.

The Americans were among 10 NATO troops killed in a bloody day of roadside explosions and small arms fire.

Five US soldiers were killed in an improvised explosive device in eastern Afghanistan, another was killed in a separate IED attack, and the seventh by small arms fire in southern Afghanistan, said Lieutenant Colonel Beth Robbins.

Khuzdar Culprits Would Have to Face Music, Warns Rehman Malik

Pakistan News: Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik has sought a report regarding firing incident on army personnel in which two troops were martyred in Khuzdar, and warned that the culprits would be taken to task.
In a Press Release issued from Islamabad, Rehman categorically stated that attacks on police and army personnel would not be tolerated and sought a probe report from chief secretary and IG FC within 8 days. The minister hinted at involvement of foreign elements in the firing incident in which 2 troops were killed while two got injured.

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Khuzdar Culprits Would Have to Face Music, Warns Rehman Malik was first posted on January 24, 2010 at 6:39 pm.

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