Ayaz Gul VOA News January 19, 2017 ISLAMABAD — While misgivings and distrust marred and further complicated Pakistan’s relations with the United States over the past eight years, officials in Islamabad appear upbeat about a more “substantive” and mutually “advantageous” engagement with the incoming administration of Donald Trump. President Barack Obama’s administration provided billions of dollars
Live Mint: Pakistan has managed to sell the flawed theory that the Taliban can be used to fight the Islamic State – After the recent terrorist attacks in Afghanistan, including the one which killed five UAE diplomats, Russia has “(urged) the warring parties in Afghanistan, primarily the leaders of the Taliban movement, to renounce violence and
Al Arabiya: In order to implement its long-term strategy in Afghanistan, Iran has increased its military support to Taliban and at the same time, counts on its own militia proxy, the Fatemiyoun Division which is made up of Afghan Shiites which was founded by Revolutionary Guards in 2013 to fight in Syria. This battle-experienced force is
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) — Unidentified armed men shot dead a former resistance commander in the northern Afghan Kunduz province on Monday, police spokesman in the province Mahfozullah Akbari said. According to Akbari, unknown armed men opened fire on Majnon, a former anti-Taliban commander in Kunduz province in the morning rush hour, killing him
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 16, 2017 Pakistani military chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa has told Afghan President Ashraf Ghani that his troops have destroyed “all safe havens” for terrorists in Pakistan. Bajwa also told Ghani in a telephone call on January 15 that the two countries must cooperate on security issues to deter cross-border
Mint Press News: A recent investigation has revealed that someone thought to be an aid worker killed by Navy SEALs in Afghanistan was actually a spy working for MI6, the British intelligence agency. Linda Norgrove was employed at Development Alternatives Incorporated, a U.S. contractor working in Afghanistan, when she was captured by the Taliban in September
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 15, 2017 The International Committee of the Red Cross says a Spanish staff member who was abducted in northern Afghanistan last month has been released. Juan Carlos was kidnapped on December 19 when workers from the group were traveling between Mazar-e Sharif and Kunduz. The ICRC’s head of delegation in
ISLAMABAD, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) — Pakistani army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Sunday spoke to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and offered intelligence cooperation to curb terrorism together, the Pakistani Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said. The offer came after a series of terrorist attacks in Afghanistan that killed dozens of people including five UAE diplomats
Noor Zahid VOA News January 15, 2017 Within hours after the Afghan government said it successfully completed a three-month-long cleanup operation against the Islamic State (IS) militant group in a remote eastern district of the country, IS conducted a series of attacks and kidnappings in other areas. On Sunday, 12 teachers and two staff members
Press TV January 14, 2017 Militants of the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group have raided a district in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar, setting fire to some 60 houses there. Attaullah Khogyani, the provincial governor’s spokesman, said people had fled their homes before the Daesh attack in Kot District on Friday, local media reported. There have