IBNS: The announcement has already been made by the Afghanistan Cricket Board that the country will play their first even Test match against India in 2018, the like of which has upset former Pakistan Cricket Board chief Shahryar Khan. According to Khan, Afghanistan should have played it with Pakistan. Speaking to pakpassion.net, Khan accused Afghanistan of taking
Press TV / December 13, 2017 Nearly two dozen female Afghan officers are receiving weapons training at a military academy in southern India. Media reports said Wednesday that the women had learned tactics and logistical and navigational skills at the academy in the southern Indian city of Chennai. This week they were taught how to
PTI: Afghanistan used to rely only on one transit road, which was through Karachi. That is not the case anymore,” says Afghan Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah. Afghanistan would no longer depend on Pakistan for transit trade with the opening of the strategic Chabahar Port, a top Afghan leader has said. Chabahar Port, located in the Sistan-Balochistan province on
Ayaz Gul VOA News November 11, 2017 ISLAMABAD — Afghanistan has received an inaugural consignment of wheat from India through an Iranian port, opening a new trade and transit route for the landlocked nation that bypasses neighboring Pakistan. The strategic sea route, officials say, will help improve trade and transit connectivity between Kabul and New Delhi.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 29, 2017 India has launched a new trade route to landlocked Afghanistan by sea through Iran’s strategic Chabahar port, a move that bypasses Pakistan and could have significant geopolitical ramifications in the region. India shipped 1.1 million tons of wheat to Afghanistan from the western seaport of Kandla on October
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 25, 2017 During a visit to India, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has expressed concern that extremist groups pose a threat to the “stability and security” of the Pakistani government. “This could lead to a threat to Pakistan’s own stability,” Tillerson told journalists on October 25 following talks with
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan October 24, 2017 Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has met with Indian leaders in New Delhi to review bilateral relations between the two countries as well as regional security and the fight against terrorism. Ghani’s office said that his talks on October 24 with Indian President Ram Nath Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra
VOA News / September 27, 2017 Anjana Pasricha NEW DELHI — A four-day Afghanistan trade-and-investment show, sponsored by the United States and aimed at providing new opportunities for businesses in the war-torn country, got underway Wednesday in New Delhi, but the mammoth challenge of that task was underlined even before the conference began. Afghanistan’s Chief Executive
VOA News September 21, 2017 ISLAMABAD — Pakistan has vowed to remain engaged with the United States in fighting regional terrorism and stabilizing Afghanistan, but said “any political or military” role for its archenemy India in the war-torn country will be unacceptable for Islamabad. Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi made the remarks late Wednesday during
The Express Tribune (Pakistan): Afghanistan’s top diplomat in Pakistan has pledged that Kabul will not collude with New Delhi to instigate any harm on Islamabad. “Peace in Pakistan is interrelated with long-term peace in Afghanistan and in spite of relying on any other country, relations between the two countries need to be strengthened through dialogue,” Afghan