As a truck driver, Gul Muhmamad regularly ferries containers full of food and other supplies along the Khyber Pass route to Western forces in the Afghan capital.
It’s an increasingly dangerous occupation, with Taliban forces attacking trucks on the road and increasingly in the terminals.
“We don’t have any security here. When we are parked here outside the terminal we are afraid of being attacked,” Muhmamad says. “We have the same fears and problems when we are driving on the roads. That is why we cannot perform our duties properly.”
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Pakistan has developed an impressive capability to design and build drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), some of which are being used to spy on al Qaeda and Taliban militants and listen in on their phone calls. The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) currently fields two UAV squadrons and has plans to boost the number up to six.
In addition to the Bravo+ UAV, which, according to PAF chief Air Chief Marshal Tanvir Mahmood Ahmed, has been built indigenously, the air force will also receive the Falco UAV produced by SelexGalileo of …

EVEN though the Pakistan Foreign Office has denied it, the American media report on a deal between Pakistan and America on the drone attacks will not be dismissed out of hand.
In fact, considering the events of the last several months, the Washington Post’s story appears to confirm an existing situation — the US carries out drone attacks in Fata without publicly acknowledging them while Pakistan protests against them without any fear of contradiction. Pakistan described this report as “baseless”, but the WP quoted a Pakistani official as saying that it …

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is building a series of air bases in eastern Afghanistan as part of its massive expansion of a system that uses drone aircraft to spy on and attack Taliban insurgents, according to interviews and documents.
In Afghanistan, harsh winters and a lack of airstrips near the fighting can hinder drone flights. It can take as long as three hours for a drone to reach battlefields, particularly in the rugged mountain area near the border with Pakistan. That area has seen some of the toughest fighting for U.S. …