PTI: Pakistan feels it has potentially lost a great opportunity to build strategic trade ties with regional economies owing to Afghanistan’s preference for a trilateral agreement with India and Iran via Chabahar port, a media report said today. The report carried in ‘The Express Tribune’ said that Pakistan is set to lose lucrative trade deal with Afghanistan
VOA News Ayaz Gul April 19, 2016 ISLAMABAD—A group of Taliban insurgents staged a bomb and gun attack in the Afghan capital Kabul Tuesday morning, killing at least 30 people and wounding more than 327, according officials. The assault targeted a building, which officials say houses a special unit of the Afghan security force working under
1TV: As prospect of Taliban peace talks dim, Pakistan has warned that the insurgents would pay a ‘heavy price’ if they continue with their violence, Pakistani media reported Monday. Pakistan has urged the Taliban all along to shun violence and negotiate, The Express Tribune reported citing an unnamed official. “That is why we are utterly disappointed by
VOA News Ayaz Gul April 15, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Pakistan on Friday rejected as “preposterous” allegations that its spy agency had links with the Haqqani network of militants and played a role in the 2009 suicide attack on a CIA base in eastern Afghanistan. A newly declassified U.S. document says an officer of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI,
1TV: Pakistan’s Inter-Service Intelligence directorate funded Haqqani Network with 200,000 dollars to attack a CIA base in Afghanistan in 2009, according to recently revealed U.S. State Department documents. The suicide attack on Camp Chapman in Afghanistan’s eastern Khost province was one of the worst attacks in CIA history. Seven American intelligence officers were killed in that
VOA News Ayaz Gul April 12, 2016 BALUCHISTAN, PAKISTAN—The Taliban says it has launched its annual spring military offensive in Afghanistan, titled “Omari Operation.” In a statement sent to reporters Tuesday, the Islamist insurgent group promised “large scale attacks on enemy positions, martyrdom-seeking (suicide) and tactical attacks against enemy strongholds and assassination of enemy commanders
Tolo News: Faridoon Hanafi, a former Taliban commander who recently joined the peace process, said that Pakistan is mobilizing and equipping the Taliban and that the group takes its orders from Islamabad. Hanafi, who had his new-born baby wrapped in an Afghan flag, on Saturday publically announced his support for his country. He said he had been a
Khaama Press: A Pakistani political leader has said they feel proud to support the Afghan Taliban group, emphasizing that the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Sami (JUI-S) still support the group. Maulana Yousaf Shah, the party’s chief for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, said leaders had always raised their voice against the western powers, according to the media reports. This comes as the Afghan officials
1TV: Pakistan on Wednesday arrested a suspected Afghan spy believed to be behind assassinations and bombings in its Baluchistan province, security and government officials told Reuters. The move comes two weeks after Pakistan detained another man it said was an Indian spy who illegally entered the country and was also captured in the mineral rich province. The accused
VOA News Ayaz Gul April 6, 2016 ISLAMABAD—A new poll in Pakistan says a sweeping majority, or 90%, of its citizens, support blocking Afghans from entering the country without a visa in order to help counterterrorism efforts. The field survey of 1,755 men and women in rural and urban areas of all four Pakistani provinces