ISLAMABAD, April 2 (Xinhua) — At least seven Afghan nationals were killed and three others injured in a road accident in Pakistan’s southwest Balochistan Province Sunday afternoon, local Urdu media reported. A van carrying Afghan nationals hit into a truck coming from opposite direction in the province’s Chagai district, located near Pakistan-Iran border, the Express
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty March 12, 2017 At least 31 Taliban militants, including a local commander, have been killed and nine others injured in a military operation carried by security forces in southern Afghanistan, government officials said. The operation took place in the province of Helmand during the past 24 hours, the provincial government’s media
Ayesha Tanzeem VOA News March 10, 2017 ISLAMABAD — The attack in Kabul that killed at least 30 people this week, claimed by the Islamic State militants, was different in strategy from the group’s past assaults. Those, like the one on a Shi’ite Hazara minority group protest in Kabul last year, had been simpler. Large public
Global Research: Almost everyone I spoke to in Afghanistan agrees that things are rapidly moving from bad to rock bottom. Afghans, at home and abroad, are deeply pessimistic. With hefty allowances and privileges, at least some foreigners based in Kabul are much more upbeat, but ‘positive thinking’ is what they are paid to demonstrate. Historically one
Press TV / March 9, 2017 The CIA has publicly accused WikiLeaks of “jeopardizing” the US national security and helping adversaries inflict harm on the United States over the leak of thousands of documents that reveal the agency’s hacking and spying secrets. “The American public should be deeply troubled by any WikiLeaks disclosure designed to
Afghanistan Analysts Network: As in most years, the feeling in January 2017 is that this will be another crucial year for Afghanistan. The AAN team has identified several key themes that we think it important to follow this year. They range from crises in the Afghan government and how changes in global politics, particularly the change
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 21, 2017 U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl sought a dismissal of desertion charges against him, saying he cannot get a fair trial now that Donald Trump, who has called him a traitor, is president. Bergdahl’s lawyers submitted a motion to dismiss the case on January 20, the day Trump took
Ayaz Gul VOA News January 19, 2017 ISLAMABAD — While misgivings and distrust marred and further complicated Pakistan’s relations with the United States over the past eight years, officials in Islamabad appear upbeat about a more “substantive” and mutually “advantageous” engagement with the incoming administration of Donald Trump. President Barack Obama’s administration provided billions of dollars
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 17, 2017 Turkish authorities say they have captured the man they believe gunned down 39 people at an Istanbul nightclub on New Year’s Day. Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on January 17 that the suspect was being questioned by police and expressed hope that the interrogation would unveil “powers” behind
BBC News: An Afghan woman made famous by a 1985 National Geographic cover has spoken exclusively to the BBC of her hope for a new beginning, after being deported from Pakistan. Sharbat Gula now lives with her five-year-old son and three daughters in Kabul, where she says she wants to live a normal life after years