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    Thatta, Sindh, Pakistan
    Abdul Wahid Soomro was born on October 21, 1962 in village Mohammad Hashim Soomro of Thatta, Sindh. He was the son of Ex-MNA Mohammad Khan Soomro who is the closed friend of Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. he went to Cadet College Petaro (CCP) for further studies. He did his matriculation and intermediate from the Cadet College Petaro (CCP). He started his political career in his student life in 1981. He got member ship in Sindh People Student Federation (SPSF) and then became the President of Sindh People Student Federation (SPSF) unit Liaquat Medical College (LMC). Jamshoro, He graduated from Liaquat Medical College (LMC), Jamshoro, and Sindh in 1989 and he also got the degree of B.Sc from Sindh University. On 18th of February 2008 he was elected the Member of National Assembly of Pakistan from NA-237
Showing posts with label NATO. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NATO. Show all posts

Nato supplies ambush kills two in Khyber

Friday, October 15, 2010 4:06 AM Posted by Abdul Wahid Soomro(MNA)
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The unidentified gunmen torched the Nato supply truck early Friday morning near Jamrud. –Photo by AP
PESHAWAR: A government official says gunmen have killed two people in an ambush on a truck in the northwestern Khyber tribal region on its way back home after delivering Nato supplies in Afghanistan.Iqbal Khan says the truck was attacked early Friday morning near Jamrud in Khyber tribal region. The driver and his assistant were killed, and the unidentified gunmen then torched the truck.
It was the most recent in a rash of attacks on the Pakistan supply line used to carry non-lethal goods to US and other Nato forces in Afghanistan.
Many came when Pakistan closed a key border crossing for 11 days after a Nato helicopter strike that killed two Pakistani border guards, leaving many trucks stranded and vulnerable along their routes. Pakistan reopened the route Sunday.
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Nato chief urges Pakistan to re-open supply route

Monday, October 4, 2010 5:17 AM Posted by Abdul Wahid Soomro(MNA)
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Nato Chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen urged Pakistan on Monday to reopen a key Afghanistan supply route “as soon as possible”. – AP (File Photo)
BRUSSELS: Nato chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen urged Pakistan on Monday to reopen a key Afghanistan supply route “as soon as possible” and expressed regret for the deaths of Pakistani troops in a Nato strike.

Pakistan has blocked a land route for Nato convoys carrying supplies to neighbouring Afghanistan since Thursday after officials blamed a cross-border Nato helicopter attack for the deaths of three Pakistani soldiers.

Rasmussen said he had a “good and open discussion” with Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi at Nato headquarters.

“I expressed my regrets for the incident last week in which Pakistani soldiers lost their lives,” Rasmussen told reporters after the meeting.

“I expressed condolences to the families. Obviously this incident was unintended,” he added.
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Nato supply line will re-open when security improves: FO

Sunday, October 3, 2010 10:07 AM Posted by Abdul Wahid Soomro(MNA)
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Drivers sit before Afghanistan-bound Nato trucks parked on the roadside in Pakistani tribal area of Khyber on Friday, Oct. 1, 2010. – AP
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will only re-open a supply route for coalition troops in Afghanistan once public anger over Nato incursions eases and security improves, the foreign ministry spokesman said on Sunday.
Militants on Saturday threatened more attacks on tankers carrying fuel to Afghanistan through routes in Pakistan to avenge the incursions.
"Unless the reaction cools down and we make sure that the supply line is secured, we cannot reopen it," Foreign Ministry spokesman Abdul Basit told Reuters.
Angered by repeated incursions by Nato helicopters over the past week, Pakistan blocked a supply route for Nato troops in Afghanistan after one such strike killed three Pakistani soldiers on Thursday in the northwestern Kurram region. – Reuters 
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Pakistan foreign minister to meet Nato chief

12:50 AM Posted by Abdul Wahid Soomro(MNA)
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Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi. -Reuters File Photo
BRUSSELS: Nato chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen will meet with Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Monday, the alliance said, amid a row over a Nato helicopter strike inside Pakistan.
Qureshi will visit the transatlantic alliance's headquarters in Brussels on the sidelines of a two-day Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM). A Nato statement said Saturday there would be no press briefing after the talks with Rasmussen.
Pakistan blocked a land route for Nato convoys carrying supplies to neighbouring Afghanistan on Thursday after officials blamed a cross-border Nato helicopter attack for the deaths of three Pakistani soldiers.
The Khyber pass at Torkham is on one of the main Nato supply routes through Pakistan into Afghanistan, where more than 152,000 US and Nato forces are fighting a Taliban-led insurgency.
Nato said its aircraft had entered Pakistani airspace Thursday in self-defence and killed “several armed individuals” after the air crews believed they had been fired upon from Pakistani territory.
It was the fourth such strike this week by Nato helicopters pursuing militants into Pakistan, in actions that have been condemned by Islamabad. -AFP
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Three NATO soldiers die in Afghan south

Friday, October 1, 2010 12:07 PM Posted by Abdul Wahid Soomro(MNA)
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The three deaths took to 550 the number of foreign troops killed in the war so far this year, the deadliest on record. — AFP Photo
KABUL: Three international soldiers, two of them Romanian, died on Friday in volatile southern Afghanistan, officials said, while an air strike killed 15 militants in the northeast near the Pakistan border.
The two Romanian soldiers were killed and a third wounded in a landmine explosion in the province of Zabul, the Ministry of Defence said in Bucharest.
The latest casualties bring to 17 the number of Romanian military personnel killed in Afghanistan since the US-led invasion in 2001 ousted the Taliban.
A total of 1,663 Romanian troops are currently deployed in the war-torn country, most of them as part of NATO's International security Assistance force (ISAF).
It was unclear how the third foreign soldier died, ISAF saying it was “as a result of a non-battle injury”. That could mean an accident or suicide.
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Signaling Tensions, Pakistan Shuts NATO Route -by Jane Perlez and Helene Cooper

Thursday, September 30, 2010 10:35 PM Posted by Abdul Wahid Soomro(MNA)
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — American officials pressed their Pakistani counterparts on Thursday to reopen a vital supply route for American and NATO forces in Afghanistan, as relations deteriorated after the fourth strike by coalition helicopters in a week killed three members of Pakistan’s border force.
Pakistan angrily closed the crossing to protest the strikes on its side of the border, leaving American officials to use meetings and phone calls to try to soothe relations and get the route reopened. Both sides indicated that they might be able to resolve the dispute with a joint investigation.
But the border closing, and the exceptional series of strikes by piloted aircraft, as opposed to drones, signaled a general increase in tensions between Pakistan and the United States, already uncomfortable allies that are pursuing competing interests in the Afghan war.
The C.I.A. has carried out a record number of drone attacks inside Pakistan this month, and fresh reports surfaced this week of unlawful executions by the Pakistani Army in areas where it has opened operations againstTaliban forces threatening the government.
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