The Independent (UK): Afghan soldier Mehrullah Safi’s military career ended in southern Helmand province last year when a rocket-propelled grenade exploded next to him, severing his right leg. Now he sells mobile telephone cards in the street. Click here to read more (external link).
RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal September 4, 2017 Five of the world’s leading emerging economies have issued a statement that includes for the first time Pakistan-based militant groups as a regional security concern and calls for their patrons to be held accountable. Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, which comprise the BRICS grouping, called for an
Tolo News: In a major sign of long-term support for Afghanistan, the United States and NATO alliance are moving to support the Afghan Air Force by investing billions of dollars in the nation’s Air Force. Gen. Phillip A. Stewart, commander of Train, Advise, Assist Command said in an interview with TOLO news on Sunday that $7
Michael Hughes: China’s immediate public defense of Pakistan against charges of harboring terrorists levied by President Donald Trump should be seen as a troubling sign in Washington – for Beijing’s staunch support will allow Islamabad to destabilize Afghanistan indefinitely and with impunity. U.S. threats to cut-off aid and cozy up to India will also amount to
Salon: As I noted in my article earlier this week, these sworn statements describe Prince as someone who “views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe.” His directions have also “encouraged and rewarded the destruction of Iraqi life.” If Prince indeed became a so-called viceroy in Afghanistan,
Ayaz Gul VOA News August 30, 2017 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — The fugitive leader of the Afghan Taliban renewed his call Wednesday for U.S. and NATO forces to leave the country, saying that would pave the way to peacefully resolve the armed conflict. The remarks by Maulvi Haibatullah Akhunzada came in a message to mark the coming
Ayesha Tanzeem VOA News August 30, 2017 ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s National Assembly passed a resolution Wednesday strongly denouncing President Donald Trump’s new policy on Afghanistan and calling his and General John Nicholson’s statements on Pakistan “hostile and threatening.” President Trump had some of the harshest words for Pakistan when he announced his new policy on Afghanistan
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 30, 2017 Two security guards have been killed in a suicide attack on a lawmaker’s house in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar, local officials say. Attaullah Khogyani, spokesman for the provincial governor, said a suicide bomber detonated his explosive vest in the morning of August 30 outside of parliament
Ayaz Gul VOA News August 29, 2017 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — A suicide bomber killed at least five people and wounded nine others outside a bank in the Afghan capital, Kabul. The attack occurred Tuesday at the entrance of a Kabul Bank branch not far from the heavily protected U.S. embassy. Witnesses said personnel of the Afghan
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 28, 2017 Pakistan’s prime minister says U.S. President Donald Trump’s strategy for the war in Afghanistan is doomed to failure. “From Day One, we have been saying very clearly the military strategy in Afghanistan has not worked, and it will not work,” Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said in an