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TTP claimed responsibility attacks on Nato supply convoys

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On Monday, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for two recent attacks on Nato supply convoys in Pakistan and threatened to carry out more.

Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Azam Tariq said, “We accept responsibility for the attacks on the Nato supply trucks and tankers,”

“I am talking about attacks both in Sindh and in Islamabad,” he said in a telephone call from an undisclosed location.

“We will carry out more such attacks in future. We will not allow the use of Pakistani soil as a supply route for Nato troops based in Afghanistan,” he said.

“This is also to avenge drone attacks,” he added

In a midnight attack, more than 20 tankers carrying fuel for US and allied troops in Afghanistan caught fire after the gunmen opened fire at the tankers.

At least three people were killed and seven others injured but the gunmen escaped.

Nato supply line to open quickly : Pakistan’s ambassador to America

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After three days Pakistan blocked Nato supply line which used to deliver supplies to Afghanistan Pakistan’s ambassador to Washington Hussain Haqqani told CNN’s, “I think the supply line will be open relatively quickly,”

He said. “I do not expect this blockade to continue for too long.”

Haqqani said that the US commander of Nato forces in Afghanistan General David Petraeus, was looking into the matter.

“I spoke to General Petraeus last night. He called me from Kabul he assured me he will resolve the issue over the Nato tanker supply line”.

“Pakistan is an American ally. America depends on Pakistan,” Haqqani said.

“We can and do not do everything the Americans think we should do because sometimes we don’t have the capacity, sometimes we don’t have the means,” he said.

“we work those things out and that is exactly what we are doing right now. He continued.

“Minus all of the political noise, the fact remains that we are working together.”

Bin Laden new audiotape on Pakistan Flood

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aired on Islamist Internet forums, a monitoring group said.

Osama has expressed concern about global climate change and flooding in Pakistan,

He said ,”The number of victims caused by climate change is very big… bigger than the victims of wars,” .

 “The catastrophe (in Pakistan) is very big and it is difficult to describe it,” he said.

“What we are facing… calls for generous souls and brave men to take serious and prompt action to provide relief for their Muslim brothers in Pakistan.”

The authenticity of the tape could not be immediately verified.

Pakistan Stops NATO Supplies After Helicopter Attack

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On Thursday, Pakistan closed the most important border crossing for trucks carrying NATO Supplies to coalition troops in Afghanistan, in apparent retaliation for an attack by NATO helicopters on a Pakistani security post hours earlier.

At the border post of Torkham, just north of Peshawar, trucks and oil tankers were halted and it was not clear when the post would reopen.

Rehman Malik, the Pakistani interior minister, indicated that NATO strikes in Pakistan were being taken extremely seriously.

He said: “We will have to see whether we are allies or enemies”.

Two attacks in a week by NATO helicopters in Pakistani territory has fuelled anger over the increasing use of drone strikes.

NATO and American troops get most of their non-lethal equipment through these routes. The American commanders in Afghanistan, fearful that Pakistan could choke back very important supplies, have been seeking alternate routes through the Central Asia but with little success.

The official said, on Thursday, at 5 a.m, a NATO helicopter attacked a border post at Mandati Kandaw, a town close to Parachinar in the Kurram area of Pakistan’s tribal region. Three paramilitary soldiers of the Frontier Corps were killed, and three others injured, he said. The official added that another border post at Kharlachi in the Kurram region was attacked a few hours later. The two posts border Paktia Province in Afghanistanand are about 15 miles apart.

This incident took place as Leon Panetta, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, was in Islamabad for an antecedently scheduled visit. Later on Thursday, He was expected to meet Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, the head of the Pakistani military, said American officials.

The Thursday NATO helicopter attacks into Pakistan took place after American military helicopters launched three airstrikes last weekend which killed more than 50 people suspected of being members of the Haqqani network of militants.

American officials in Afghanistan said that the helicopters got into Pakistani airspace on only one of the three occasions, and had done it in self-defence after militants fired rockets at an allied base just across the border in Afghanistan.

A NATO spokesman in Afghanistan headquarters said the incident was being investigated.

Pakistan condemns NATO airstrikes

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Pakistan strongly condemned the incidents of airstrikes by NATO helicopters, from Afghanistan into its territory.

A Pakistan Foreign Office statement said: “These incidents are a clear violation of the UN mandate under which ISAF operates. The mandate terminates’ at the Afghan border. There are no agreed ‘hot pursuit’ rules. Any impression to the contrary is factually incorrect. Such violations are unacceptable”.

The statement added: “ISAF/NATO has been asked not to participate in any action that violates the UN mandate and infringes upon Pakistan’s sovereignty. In the absence of immediate corrective measures, Pakistan will be constrained to consider response options”.

Pakistan chairs board of nuclear agency

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IAEA, the U.N. atomic agency’s governing body is going to be chaired by Pakistan as it  has been chosen by th board members.
Pakistan was approved by consensus of the 35-nation board as the choice of the board’s Mideast and South Asian members.
Holders of the rotating one year post have no power to influence IAEA policy or decisions.