Ayaz Gul VOA News November 19, 2018 ISLAMABAD — Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan sharply criticized President Donald Trump Monday for questioning Pakistan’s anti-terror efforts, saying Washington is making Islamabad “a scapegoat” for U.S. “failures” in Afghanistan. In an interview that aired Sunday on the U.S. network Fox News, Trump defended his decision to withhold hundreds
1TV: US President Donald Trump will visit Afghanistan, which will be his first after taking office nearly two years ago. Trump revealed this in an interview with Fox News after being asked why he hasn’t visited US troops serving in war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan. Click here to read more (external link). Related Trump defends
IPD: As Washington seeks to stabilize the situation in Afghanistan, it has sought various avenues to change the course of the war. Despite exhausting a variety of resources and billions of dollars, Washington’s policies have yet to address the root cause of the war: Pakistan’s pivotal role in the Taliban’s insurgency. Instead, Washington has acknowledged Pakistan’s
RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal November 15, 2018 A high ranking Pakistani police official who was abducted in the capital city of Islamabad has been found dead in eastern Afghanistan, authorities said. Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a press release on November 14 that Afghan authorities informed the Pakistan Embassy in Kabul that a body
1TV: Tadeen Khan, the acting police chief of Kandahar province, has promised revenge after his brother General Abdul Raziq was assassinated last month. “You did it for Punjab (Pakistan’s ISI) as you bear the burden of serving them,” Khan told 1TV of the killing which was claimed by the Taliban. “I am warning them that we
Ayaz Gul VOA News November 12, 2018 ISLAMABAD — Russia said Monday the Taliban has secretly held 10 rounds of talks with the United States, other than the officially announced recent contact between the two sides in Qatar on how to end the war in Afghanistan. There have been only two publicly known meetings U.S. officials
Tolo News: Pakistan Ulema Council (PUC) chairman Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi told Pakistani journalists the war in Afghanistan will intensify following the death of Sami ul Haq. He said Sami ul Haq has been bestowed a ‘Martyr Title’. “It is a big mistake to say by the death of Maulana Sami ul Haq the war
RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal November 3, 2018 Thousands of people attended the funeral of Maulana Sami ul-Haq, a prominent Pakistani cleric known as the “father of the Afghan Taliban,” in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Noshera on November 3. Sami ul-Haq, 81, was killed in a knife attack at his home in the city of Rawalpindi, near
Ayaz Gul VOA News November 2, 2018 ISLAMABAD — Unknown assailants in Pakistan have assassinated the top Islamist leader known as the father of Afghanistan’s Taliban movement. Family members confirmed that Maulana Sami-ul Haq, 81, was resting at his home Friday in Rawalpindi when he was killed with a knife. The slain leader’s son, Maulana Hamid-ul
Ayaz Gul VOA News November 1, 2018 ISLAMABAD — China and Pakistan say they are exploring the extension of their bilateral infrastructure development project to Afghanistan. During the past four years of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), Beijing has provided Islamabad $19 billion in soft loans and direct foreign investments, upgrading or constructing Pakistani transportation networks,