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DAWN.com
February 23, 2018
Forget the birds, if they pay us enough we will let them hunt the Baloch near Shamsi airbase too. We let the Americans do it, so why not the Arabs? The Americans have not housed our leaders. The Arabs were nice enough to keep the Sharif brothers for us while we figured out if we liked another militaryÃÂ ...
Jagran Josh
February 13, 2018
... of the IAF. The plane, which underwent a six-year-long restoration in the UK, will join the vintage fleet at the Hindon Air Base in Uttar Pradesh. ... fifth ODI at Port Elizabeth today. India named an unchanged eleven while South Africa brought in spinner Tabraiz Shamsi for injured all-rounder Chris Morris.
Pakistan Observer
January 20, 2018
An amount of 15 billion wasn't charged from US for over flights. No amount was charged, around 3 billion, for using four air bases, Dalbandin, Jacobabad, Pasni and Shamsi, for over a decade. The cost of damage to the roads and infrastructure due to US containers,around 2 billion $, was also not charged.
PakTribune.com
January 15, 2018
Later on, he was given $400 million by RAW to destabilize Baluchistan with the help of Baloch rebel groups, and Karachi through MQM, scare away the Chinese, gain knowledge of Makran-Karachi seacoast for amphibious landing, disrupt work in Gwadar and scuttle CPEC. Shamsi airbase was used byÃÂ ...
The Nation
January 7, 2018
The U.S was made to vacate Jacobabad and Shamsi air bases , and the use of our port and road network was denied to the Coalition Forces for many months. One could narrate other examples of US fickleness and perfidy, if only space permitted. Will the nationwide condemnation and outrage have anÃÂ ...
The Drive
November 13, 2017
“We in the UAE already live in a fifth generation environment,” Brigadier General Rashed Al Shamsi, deputy head of the country's Air Force, explained at ... The overall security situation already prompted the U.S. Air Force to begin rotational deployments of F-22 Raptor stealth fighters to Al Dhafra Air Base inÃÂ ...
New York Times
August 10, 2017
They barely knew their father, a jihadist who died after being tortured at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. His fame has tainted their lives in the West. Parvaiz is adrift and haunted, however, by his father's legacy. He is recruited by ISIS. He joins its media division in Syria. He quickly discovers he has made aÃÂ ...
The Quint
July 29, 2017
The incident led to the Pakistan government's decision to stop the flow of logistics convoys through Quetta and Peshawar, deny base facilities at Shamsi airbase and demand re-negotiation of the rules of engagement. In turn, the US government announced that it would withhold military aid to Pakistan.
Sky News
June 7, 2017
UAE Attorney-General Hamad Saif al-Shamsi said: "Strict and firm action will be taken against anyone who shows sympathy or any form of bias towards Qatar, ... Qatar hosts 8,000 US military personnel at al Udeid, the largest US air base in the Middle East and a key site for airstrikes targeting IS militants.
BBC News
June 7, 2017
The United Arab Emirates has warned that anyone expressing sympathy for Qatar could face up to 15 years in prison, as a regional crisis escalates. UAE officials said Qatar needed to end its support for terrorist groups, a claim the Gulf state strongly denies. Several countries including the UAE, Saudi ArabiaÃÂ ...
The Guardian
April 7, 2017
While the Trump administration has carried forth Obama's military campaign against Isis, the president's authorization of 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at a government airbase was the first US strike targeted at Assad's regime in the six-year Syrian civil war. Though many acknowledge the 2001 AUMF hasÃÂ ...
Bureau of Investigative Journalism
December 15, 2011
US Predator and Reaper drones have operated from the isolated airbase for many years. Technically the base is leased to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, which allowed Pakistan to deny a US presence for many years. Now the US has quit Shamsi, with large US transporter planes stripping militaryÃÂ ...
New York Times
December 11, 2011
While United States officials do not comment publicly on drone operations against militants who plan attacks on Afghanistan from havens in the Pakistani tribal areas, operations had been reduced at the Shamsi air base since May, when a Navy Seal commando raid killed Osama bin Laden near Islamabad.
The Friday Times
December 8, 2011
Responding to the development, Pakistan Army spokesman Maj Gen Athar Abbas admitted Shamsi and Jacobabad airbases were being used by the US, "for ... In October that year, a New York Times report said Blackwater employees had worked at Shamsi airbase "where they loaded missiles and bombsÃÂ ...
NDTV
December 5, 2011
Pakistani officials pushed for US military personnel to abandon Shamsi following the bin Laden raid, but eventually agreed to a compromise with Washington. The US agreed to launch offensive drone strikes into Pakistan from American bases in neighboring Afghanistan, and restrict the use of Shamsi toÃÂ ...
Pakistan Today
November 25, 2017
Pakistan reacted strongly, ordering the U.S. forces to vacate Shamsi air base in Balochistan, from where Drone strikes were being launched, blocking the Ground Lines of Communication from the port of Karachi to NATO forces in Afghanistan and boycotting the 5th December Bonn Conference in ...
The Drive
November 13, 2017
“We in the UAE already live in a fifth generation environment,” Brigadier General Rashed Al Shamsi, deputy head of the country's Air Force, explained at ... The overall security situation already prompted the U.S. Air Force to begin rotational deployments of F-22 Raptor stealth fighters to Al Dhafra Air Base in ...
New York Times
August 10, 2017
They barely knew their father, a jihadist who died after being tortured at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. His fame has tainted their lives in the West. Parvaiz is adrift and haunted, however, by his father's legacy. He is recruited by ISIS. He joins its media division in Syria. He quickly discovers he has made a ...
Yahoo News
June 9, 2017
Saudi Arabia and its allies have turned on Qatar, and until Wednesday, President Trump's Twitter fingers were working overtime to pile on and even claim credit for the effort to turn the diminutive but wildly wealthy Gulf state into a pariah. Perhaps recognizing what the U.S. has at stake in Qatar – hundreds of ...
BBC News
June 7, 2017
The United Arab Emirates has warned that anyone expressing sympathy for Qatar could face up to 15 years in prison, as a regional crisis escalates. UAE officials said Qatar needed to end its support for terrorist groups, a claim the Gulf state strongly denies. Several countries including the UAE, Saudi Arabia ...
The Guardian
April 7, 2017
While the Trump administration has carried forth Obama's military campaign against Isis, the president's authorization of 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at a government airbase was the first US strike targeted at Assad's regime in the six-year Syrian civil war. Though many acknowledge the 2001 AUMF has ...
Bureau of Investigative Journalism
December 15, 2011
US Predator and Reaper drones have operated from the isolated airbase for many years. Technically the base is leased to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, which allowed Pakistan to deny a US presence for many years. Now the US has quit Shamsi, with large US transporter planes stripping military ...
New York Times
December 11, 2011
While United States officials do not comment publicly on drone operations against militants who plan attacks on Afghanistan from havens in the Pakistani tribal areas, operations had been reduced at the Shamsi air base since May, when a Navy Seal commando raid killed Osama bin Laden near Islamabad.
NDTV
December 5, 2011
Pakistani officials pushed for US military personnel to abandon Shamsi following the bin Laden raid, but eventually agreed to a compromise with Washington. The US agreed to launch offensive drone strikes into Pakistan from American bases in neighboring Afghanistan, and restrict the use of Shamsi to ...
The Statesman
August 4, 2017
... convoys through Quetta and Peshawar, deny base facilities at Shamsi airbase and demand re-negotiation of the rules of engagement. In turnÃÂ ...
The Quint
July 29, 2017
... convoys through Quetta and Peshawar, deny base facilities at Shamsi airbase and demand re-negotiation of the rules of engagement. In turnÃÂ ...
Yahoo News
June 9, 2017
Saudi Arabia and its allies have turned on Qatar, and until Wednesday, President Trump's Twitter fingers were working overtime to pile on andÃÂ ...
BBC News
June 7, 2017
... General Hamad Saif al-Shamsi was quoted as saying by Gulf News. ... thanked Qatar for hosting the largest US airbase in the Middle East.
Taipei Times
June 7, 2017
Qatar hosts 8,000 US military personnel at Al Udeid Air Base, the largest US ... quoted UAE Attorney-General Hamad Saif al-Shamsi as saying.
The National
May 13, 2017
Salem Al Shamsi, left, and Amna Fikri, who are students at the Emirates Diplomatic Academy, speak at an event commemorating the 60thÃÂ ...
Huffington Post
April 19, 2017
... mother, Laila, and sister, Mimi, both living in Damascus, and asked them how they felt about the American bombing of the Shayrat airbase.
The National
April 13, 2017
From donating clothes to those in need to laying flowers at the local mosque for worshippers to enjoy, Sheikha Al Shamsi is a conscientiousÃÂ ...
The Guardian
April 7, 2017
Hina Shamsi, the director of the National Security Project at the American Civil Liberties Union, was far less equivocal. “The use of chemicalÃÂ ...
New York Times
December 11, 2011
Pakistan had ordered the C.I.A. to leave the Shamsi air base in protest ... of anonymity because the drone operations at Shamsi were classified,ÃÂ ...
The Nation
March 15, 2017
Malik said that none but Asif Ali Zardari as President of Pakistan ordered the US to vacate the Shamsi Airbase on November 26, 2011 after the tragic incident of Salala in which 24 Pakistan army soldiers were martyred.
Firstpost
November 15, 2016
There was commotion in Pakistan when then minister of Information and Broadcasting Firdous Ashiq Awan announced in 2011 that the US had been asked to vacate the Shamsi airbase even though the US had already ceased all operations from ShamsiÃÂ ...
Gulf Today
October 21, 2016
Sheikh Mohamed and his delegation were received at the Salman Airbase by Prince Mohammed Bin Nayef Bin Abdul Aziz, Crown Prince, Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister of Saudi Arabia; Prince Mohammed Bin Salman Bin Abdulaziz, Deputy ... of ...
Gulf Today
October 21, 2016
Sheikh Mohamed and his delegation were received at the Salman Airbase by Prince Mohammed Bin Nayef Bin Abdul Aziz, Crown Prince, Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister of Saudi Arabia; Prince Mohammed Bin Salman Bin Abdulaziz, Deputy ... of ...
PakTribune.com
October 13, 2016
The reasons which impelled Washington to keep Pakistan attached were: It needed two supply land routes in Pakistan for ISAF troops, Shamsi airbase for drone attacks in FATA, establishment of CIA-FBI-Blackwater-RAW-MI-6 network in Pakistan to bolsterÃÂ ...
PakTribune.com
October 4, 2016
The Army, paramilitary forces and the police are fighting the US dictated war on terror since 2003 but have yet not been able to completely root out terrorism.
The National
August 12, 2016
They confessed to assassinating Ahmed Al Edreesi, leader of the resistance in southern Yemen, and his guards last December 31 in Al Mansoura district, and to murdering the Emirati military officer Captain Hadif Humaid Al Shamsi," Mr Al Naqeeb told The ...
The Nation
July 4, 2016
Braying at top of their voices every related unrelated fact is bundled together, fables are manufactured to prove the incompetence of the civilian setup conveniently forgetting that drones were rumored to be using Shamsi airbase and Tarbela ghazi to ...
Daily Times
July 4, 2016
Furthermore, the state also provided the US with Shamsi Airbase in Balochistan for the same purpose. There were high risks involved in carrying out the strikes given the fallout resulting from collateral damages.
Eurasia Review
May 7, 2016
The Navy Seals allegedly flew from the Jalalabad airbase in Afghanistan in the two 'modified' Black Hawk helicopters and landed in OBL's Abbottabad compound some 90 minutes later.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
May 4, 2016
In 2009, the former commander of Pakistan's Shamsi Air Force Base was arrested for leaking "sensitive" information to a radical Islamist organization.
PakTribune.com
April 2, 2016
Jundulah group was used by CIA from Balochistan (Shamsi airbase) against Iran. ISI handed over Jundullah chief Abdul Malik Regi to Iran, who was then executed.
The Nation
January 26, 2016
Pakistan's airbases were used by the US and its allies during the Afghan war. US and Nato forces used Shamsi, Shahbaz and Tarbela Ghazi Airbases during the war. However, the airbases were cleared after the martyrdom of Pakistani soldiers in Nato airÃÂ ...
