ISLAMABAD, July 24 (Xinhua) — A Pakistani militant leader, Mangal Bagh, has been killed in a U.S. drone strike in eastern Afghanistan, section of the Pakistani media reported on Sunday. Bagh, who heads “Lashkar-e-Islam” group in Pakistan’s Khyber tribal region, was wanted for his involvement in attacks on the security forces and tribal elders. The
ISLAMABAD, July 22 (Xinhua) — Pakistan and Afghanistan will hold a high level meeting in Kabul on July 26 to discuss a border mechanism to check the illegal cross-border movement, officials said on Friday. Pakistan introduced a new mechanism from June 1st that makes it obligatory for every Afghan to carry legal travel documents for
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 20, 2016 German media have reported that the 17-year-old asylum seeker who was shot dead by police after attacking passengers with an ax and knife on a train in southern Germany was not Afghan but in fact Pakistani. German state broadcaster ZDF said on July 20 that documents found in
VOA News Ayaz Gul July 17, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Pakistani policy makers and legislators stand “puzzled” over the way the United States has lately conducted its relationship with Islamabad and “extremely opposing views” emanating from within the U.S. Congress about Pakistani counterterrorism and efforts to promote peace in Afghanistan. Pakistan and the United States have long had
Michael Hughes: Captain obvious Zalmay Khalilzad told the U.S. Foreign Affairs committee on July 12 that Pakistan was using the Taliban as a proxy force to dominate Afghanistan. Besides revealing a phenomenon few people outside of Pakistan would deny, Mr. Khalilzad’s testimony dripped with irony considering both the Taliban movement and its patrons in Islamabad were
VOA News Ayesha Tanzeem July 15, 2016 ISLAMABAD—A former head of Afghanistan’s intelligence agency has leaked documents that he claims show Pakistan’s link to groups that carry out attacks inside Afghanistan. Rahmatullah Nabil, who resigned last December after strongly criticizing Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s overtures toward Pakistan on social media, said he leaked the documents
Tolo News: Documents uncovered by Rahmatullah Nabil, former chief of Afghan Spy Agency—the National Directorate of Security (NDS) – shows that the money provided by the U.S government to the Pakistani military for fighting terrorism is in fact spent by Pakistan’s Inter-service Intelligence (ISI) for promoting and supporting terrorism. The documents also show that Pakistan strikes only
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 14, 2016 The Afghan president’s office said there are currently no plans to try to kick-start peace talks with the Taliban. Haroon Chakhansuri, spokesman for President Ashraf Ghani, said on July 14 that a four-nation group created in hopes of starting talks with Talbian representatives had no plans to meet,
VOA News Noor Zahid July 14, 2016 WASHINGTON—The United States should cut off financial and military aid to Pakistan’s government, a U.S. lawmaker said this week, because Pakistan’s powerful military establishment and intelligence services have not broken off their links to terrorist groups. “Fifteen years have passed since September 11, billions of dollars have been
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 13, 2016 Pakistan’s military says that the mastermind of a 2014 attack on a Pakistani school that killed about 150 people, mainly children, has been killed by a U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan. Pakistani Army spokesman Lieutenant General Asim Bajwa said on July 13 that a U.S. Army general had