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NEW YORK: Stressing on the need of establishing peace and a secure environment in Pakistan and Afghanistan, US President Barack Obama has said that dismantling the terror network flourishing in the region is the “singular focus” of his administration. In an extensive interview with the ABC, Obama said rooting out the militant base in the [...]
KABUL: US special forces commander visited a family in rural Afghanistan to plead for forgiveness after finally admitting that his troops killed five innocent people in a raid. Vice-Admiral William H. McRaven went to Paktia to the home of family who lost two sons, two pregnant women and teenage girl when the US special forces [...]
KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai threatened over the weekend to quit the political process and join the Taliban if he continued to come under outside pressure to reform, according to several members of parliament. They said that Karzai made the unusual statement at a closed-door meeting with selected lawmakers – just days after kicking up [...]
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon has said that Pakistan also needs to be enlisted in any effort to seek reconciliation with the Afghan militants, although the process has to be led and managed by Kabul. A senior US defence official, while briefing journalists in Washington, recalled that Pakistan had offered assistance to Afghanistan in the reconciliation process [...]
NEW DELHI: India blames Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) for an attack that killed seven of its citizens in Kabul on February 26, a government source said Thursday. “The LeT is responsible. We have no doubt about that,” the source told reporters on condition of anonymity. He said the group, which India also holds responsible [...]
Since their 2007 launch, the whistleblowing web site WikiLeaks have been the subject of “hostile acts” by state and private security services for spilling the beans on crime, corruption and violence perpetrated by the capitalist deep state. But rather than being deterred by government threats or overt acts of violence, including the murder of two [...]
NEW DELHI: Claiming that they were not in direct conflict with India, Taliban have said there was a possibility of reconciliation even
In a new audio recording, Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has threatened to kill captured Americans if 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is executed. Al Jazeera broadcast the purported message from Bin Laden today. “The day America will take such decision [to execute Mohammed and any others] it would have taken a decision to execute [...]
KABUL: A NATO helicopter crashed in Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing one Turkish soldier and injuring three others, a provincial government spokesman told AFP. “One Turkish soldier has been killed and three injured in the helicopter crash today,” said Shahidullah Shahid, spokesman for the Wardak provincial government. The injured were in a critical condition, he said, [...]
KABUL: Like farmers the world over Haji Afzal has locked in the price for his crop with a forward contract. Rather than a contract on the Chicago Board of Trade — like an American wheat farmer or a Thai rice grower — Afzal was paid 400,000 Pakistani rupees (5,000 dollars) by a middleman for the [...]
WASHINGTON: US Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Monday said he had potential concerns about an alleged spying network of contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan run by a Pentagon official, but that he still lacked information about the reported operation. The New York Times has reported that the Defense Department official, Michael Furlong, had set [...]
KABUL: A senior delegation representing one of the main Afghan insurgent movements is in Kabul with a plan for peace talks with the Afghan government, a senior official in President Hamid Karzai’s government said on Monday. The delegation of the Hezb-i-Islami group, which leads an insurgency separate from the Taliban mainly in the east, was [...]
KABUL: Arrests of Taliban leaders have had a “negative impact” on efforts by the Afghan government to broker a peace deal with the insurgents, a spokesman for President Hamid Karzai said Saturday. The arrests in Pakistan of the Taliban’s second-in-command, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, and others in the Islamists’ hierarchy, had slowed down Afghan government [...]
LONDON: Former UN special representative to Afghanistan, Kai Eide has accused Pakistan of arresting key Taliban leaders in a deliberate move to stop secret peace talks
ISLAMABAD: Cross-border flow from Afghanistan is hampering the campaign to crush the Taliban and the Pak-Afghan border is a joint responsibility, Director-General Inter-Services Public Relations Major General Athar Abbas said. NATO, therefore, must participate in putting an end to the cross-border flow, Abbas said. There are now 821 Pakistan Army checkpoints on the border and [...]
WASHINGTON: The US general who oversees the Afghan war has acknowledged that Pakistan has a reason to be concerned about its lack of strategic depth. In two television interviews this weekend, Gen. David Petraeus also said that the Pakistani “security forces, have put a lot of short sticks into a lot of hornets’ nests over [...]
KABUL: Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervaiz Kayani visited the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)
ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan has become the new ‘battlefield’ between India and Pakistan as Indian agents have taken ‘revenge’ in Kandahar on Thursday by killing five Pakistanis. The Indians had earlier accused Pakistani agents of killing 17 people, including nine Indians, in an attack on a Kabul guesthouse. Pakistan has refuted the Indian allegation. The Afghan secret [...]
MARJAH: The Afghan government took official control of the southern Taliban stronghold of Marjah on Thursday, installing an administrator and raising the national flag while US-led troops worked to root out final pockets of militants, reports AP. The ceremony was held in a central market as US Marines and Afghan troops slogged through bomb-laden fields [...]
WASHINGTON: The NATO military alliance and Russia face a common threat emanating from the Pak-Afghan border and have agreed to make joint efforts to deal with it, says US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. In a speech at an international seminar in Washington on revising NATO’s mission for the 21st century, Secretary Clinton also urged [...]
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