Tag: insurgents

  • Afghan leader assails Pakistan for Taliban support

    KABUL, Afghanistan: The Afghan president says Taliban insurgents ”can’t move a finger” without Pakistani support. Hamid Karzai spoke in an interview with the BBC that aired on Friday, the 10th anniversary of the US invasion. However, Karzai insists he doesn’t mean to reprimand Pakistan but is simply saying what both nations already know in the…

  • PM Gilani cautions US against “negative messaging”

    ISLAMABAD: Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani complained on Tuesday of negative messages from Washington and informed that any United State raid across the Afghanistan border to target Haqqani group insurgents would be a violation of his country’s independency. “The negative messaging, logically that is disturbing my people,” Gilani told reporter in an interview. “If…