Ayaz Gul VOA News February 20, 2017 ISLAMABAD — Pakistan and Afghanistan have issued conciliatory statements in an apparent attempt to defuse days of border tensions stemming from charges Afghan soil was used for masterminding last week’s terrorist attacks in Pakistani cities. Pakistani troops have been staging cross-border shelling to target what authorities claimed were camps
ISLAMABAD, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) — At least 11 Afghan militants were killed in clash with Pakistani armed forces in the country’s northwest tribal area of Kurram Agency on Sunday, local Urdu media reported. Dawn News said that two security personnel were also injured in the clash that took place along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Quoting unidentified
Paul Alexander VOA News February 18, 2017 Pakistan has closed its border with Afghanistan, fired a barrage of artillery into its neighbor’s territory and staged a major domestic crackdown on militant groups, reportedly killing more than 100 suspects, in response to the deadliest terror attack in the country in years. It was the latest in
Ayaz Gul VOA News February 15, 2017 ISLAMABAD — Two separate bomb explosions in northwestern Pakistan killed at least six people and wounded many more Wednesday. Officials say the deadliest incident happened in the Mohmand tribal district near the Afghan border, where a suicide bomber blew himself up after security forces spotted and tried to stop
Press TV February 13, 2017 An international human rights watchdog has slammed the Pakistani government for deporting Afghan refugees and economic migrants. Hundreds of thousands of Afghans were forced to exit Pakistan last year in the “world’s largest unlawful mass forced return of refugees in recent times,” Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Monday. In
PTI: The strategic port of Chabahar in Iran which is being developed to build a transport-and-trade corridor through Afghanistan giving India an access to global markets is expected to be opened in a month’s time, said Afghanistan Consul General Mohammad Aman Amin. “The port is likely to open in a month’s time and it will provide
RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal February 6, 2017 A junior Afghan diplomat has been shot dead in the country’s consulate in the Pakistani port city of Karachi in what officials described as a personal dispute. Police said a private security guard, identified as Rehmat Ullah, opened fire on the consulate’s third secretary, Muhammad Zaki Uro, in the
Ayaz Gul VOA News February 4, 2017 ISLAMABAD — The United Nations has removed notorious Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar from its list of designated terrorists following his recent peace agreement with the Kabul government. “Therefore, the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo … no longer apply to him,” the U.N. Security Council’s Sanctions Committee said
Noor Zahid VOA News February 1, 2017 The smuggling of Afghan minerals supplies millions of dollars to armed groups, insurgents and strongmen in the country, an Afghan anti-corruption watchdog reported Wednesday. The Afghanistan Anti-Corruption Network said in a report that militant groups last year received at least $46 million from minerals and precious stones illegally
ISLAMABAD, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) — Pakistan army said on Tuesday the country is not involved in acts of terror in neighhbouring Afghanistan. Comments by the army spokesman, Major-General Asif Ghafoor, came at a time when relationship between Pakistan and Afghanistan is tense. Both countries routinely accuse each other of loose border control that enable the