Ayaz Gul VOA News February 25, 2017 ISLAMABAD — Pakistan disclosed Saturday that it is engaged in negotiations with Afghanistan on developing a joint “mechanism” to address mutual cross-border terrorism concerns, and both sides could formalize a deal next week. Sartaj Aziz, the prime minister’s adviser on foreign policy, told reporters in Islamabad that he will
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty February 25, 2017 Afghan officials say 10 police officers and the wife of a police commander have been killed in an attack in the northern province of Zawzjan. Mohammad Reza Ghafori, spokesman for the provincial governor, said the officers were ambushed on February 24 as they were coming out of a
Tolo News: Gen. Joseph Dunford, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States in response to a question on the complexity of US-Pakistan relations said if any other major threat is added to the list of five major threats to the U.S. interests, that can be Pakistan. Dunford who discussed major threats against
Al Jazeera: It was called Operation Moshtarak and it was supposed to be the defining moment of the Afghanistan conflict – an all-out assault by coalition forces on the Taliban-held city of Marjah in Helmand province. Long regarded as a “festering sore” by senior NATO officers, Marjah was seen as one of the last insurgent-controlled areas
PUL-E-KHUMRI, Afghanistan, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) — Taliban militants shot dead two former policemen in the northern Afghan province of Baghlan on Wednesday, police spokesman Mahfozullah Akbari confirmed. According to the official, both victims had served as local policemen and were gunned by Taliban in Khalozai area of Baghlan-e-Markazi district in Baghlan province Wednesday morning. Taliban
Tolo News: A security source said the armed forces surrounded Dostum’s house on Tuesday because he had brought huge numbers armed personnel into the city. In addition, the source said, nine of Dostum’s security guards were accused of mistreating Ahmad Eshchi, former deputy head of the National Islamic Movement of Afghanistan. Only two of the guards
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) — Personnel of law enforcing agencies have arrested eight suspected insurgents in the southern Kandahar province, said a statement of National Directorate of Security (NDS) or the country’s spy agency released here Tuesday. “An eight-member group of armed insurgents have been arrested and the arrested persons have confessed to their
Masood Farivar VOA News February 20, 2017 They both call themselves the Taliban. They regularly carry out deadly suicide bombings, kill civilians with impunity and, in many respects, behave like brutish terrorist groups. So why is one — the Tehrik-I Taliban of Pakistan — on the State Department’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations, while the
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
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty February 20, 2017 U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says he will make recommendations soon to President Donald Trump on whether to increase the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Mattis said on February 19 that the president had been “rightfully reticent” on the matter, as he was waiting for input from