Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2009
| Subscribe to Newser's RSS feeds RSS | Follow Newser on Twitter Twitter

NEWS ABOUT: Khyber Pass

Khyber Pass stories: 5 news summaries



 Taliban Wrecks 
 Key Afghanistan 
 Supply Bridge 

Deliveries cut off after Pakistan attack; how long remains unclear

Feb 3, 09 8:17 AM CST
(Newser) - Taliban militants have blown up a bridge along the NATO supply route across the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, halting deliveries to troops, the New York Times reports. Repairs are under way on the Khyber Pass bridge, but it’s not yet clear how long it will be before supply efforts resume. Militants... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Afghanistan • Taliban • Pakistan • army supplies • Khyber Pass • NATO troops • Afghanistan war

Pakistan Cracks Open Afghan Supply Route

Crucial Khyber Pass has been shut for anti-Taliban campaign

Jan 2, 09 5:38 PM CST
(Newser) - Pakistan allowed traffic to cross the Khyber Pass today for 6 hours after closing it to help fight the Taliban, the New York Times reports. But analysts say that once the offensive is over, guerrillas who fled the area will simply return to the pass, a crucial supply route... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Afghanistan • NATO • Taliban • Pakistan • US military • Khyber Pass • supply route

 US to Expand Routes 
 Into Afghanistan 

Safer roads will depend on cooperation of Central Asian nations

Dec 31, 08 9:40 AM CST
(Newser) - More than four-fifths of the supplies for allied troops in Afghanistan travel via Pakistan along a treacherous route, prompting the US to plan new supply lines in the embattled region. The fragility of the current setup was laid bare after a Pakistani counter-militant offensive shut down the Khyber Pass yesterday,... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Afghanistan • Russia • NATO • Pakistan • Azerbaijan • army supplies • Turkmenistan • Khyber Pass • Uzbekistan • Tajikistan

Pakistani Offensive Shuts US Supply Line  to Afghanistan

Crackdown targets Khyber Pass militants

Dec 30, 08 8:45 AM CST
(AP) - Pakistan closed the main route used to ferry supplies to US and allied troops in Afghanistan today after launching a fresh offensive against militants in the area. The road through the Khyber Pass in the northwest of Pakistan has faced increasing attacks by militants seeking to squeeze Western forces fighting... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Afghanistan • Taliban • Pakistan • insurgents • US military • army supplies • militant • offensive • Khyber Pass • NATO troops

Pakistan Hunts for Missing Diplomat

Ambassador to Afghanistan feared kidnapped near border

Feb 12, 08 9:20 AM CST
(Newser) - Pakistani officials are hunting for their ambassador to neighboring Afghanistan, and the country's president believes he was abducted, Reuters reports. "The Pakistan ambassador to Afghanistan has been kidnapped while traveling to Afghanistan," Hamid Karzai said. The diplomat went missing yesterday while traveling through the Khyber Pass, a region... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Afghanistan • Taliban • Pakistan • Hamid Karzai • Peshawar • kidnapping • Kabul • al-Qaeda • Khyber Pass • Tariq Azizuddin • ambassador

5 Stories


from our news partners

Associated PressAssociated Press